Explorations by early navigators, descriptions ofthe islands and their peoples, their history and records of thecatholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts,showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions ofthose islands from their earliest relations with European nations tothe close of the nineteenth century,
Volume XXXIX, 1683–1690
Edited and annotated by EmmaHelen Blair and James AlexanderRobertson with historical introduction and additional notes byEdward Gaylord Bourne.
View of the city of Manila; photographic facsimile of engraving inDampier’s Nouveau voyage autour du monde (Frenchtrans., Amsterdam, 1698) between pp. 434 and 435; from copy in Libraryof Congress 89
Map of the Philippine Islands; photographic facsimile fromPierrè du Val’s La géographieuniverselle, “Isles Philippines” (Paris, 1682), betweenpp. 306 and 307; from copy of original map in Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris 129
Autograph signature of Pedro Murillo Velarde, S.J.; photographicfacsimile from original manuscript in Archivo general de Indias,Sevilla 195
The present volume, which covers the period 1683–90, is mainlydevoted to an account of the controversy between Archbishop Pardo andthe religious orders on one side, and the secular government on theother—a conflict of which such events as the disputes betweenSalazar and Dasmariñas (1591) and Guerrero and Corcuera(1635–36) were but preliminary skirmishes. In this case thearchbishop gains the ascendency, being reënforced by one of thegovernors.
Dampier’s account of his sojourn in the islands is hereconcluded from the preceding volume. He finds the Mindanaos friendly tothe English, but distrustful of the Dutch and Spaniards. Th