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                   The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898

   Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and
   their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions,
    as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the
   political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those
   islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the
                    close of the nineteenth century,

                          Volume L, 1764-1800



 Edited and annotated by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson
  with historical introduction and additional notes by Edward Gaylord
                                Bourne.



                      The Arthur H. Clark Company
                            Cleveland, Ohio
                                 MCMVII








CONTENTS OF VOLUME L


    Preface                                                          9

    Document of 1764-1800

        Events in Filipinas, 1764-1800. [Compiled from Montero y
        Vidal's Historia de Filipinas.]                            23

    Miscellaneous Documents, 1766-1771

        Financial affairs of the islands, 1766. Francisco Leandro
        de Viana; Manila, July  10, 1766.                          77
        Letter from Viana to Carlos III. F. L. de Viana; Manila,
        May 1, 1767.                                              118
        Anda's Memorial to the Spanish government. Simon de Anda
        y Salazar; Madrid, April 12, 1768.                        137
        Ordinances of good government. [Compiled by Governors
        Corcuera (1642), Cruzat y Góngora (1696), and Raón
        (1768).]                                                  191
        Instructions to the secular clergy. Basilio Sancho de
        Santa Justa y Rufina; Manila, October 25, 1771.           265
        The expulsion of the Jesuits, 1768-69. [Compiled from
        various sources.]                                         269
        The council of 1771. [Letter by a Franciscan friar];
        Manila, December 13, 1771.                                317

    Bibliographical Data.                                         323








ILLUSTRATIONS


    Plan of the city of Manila and its environs and suburbs
    on the other side of the river, by the pilot Francisco
    Xavier Estorgo y Gallegos, 1770; photographic facsimile
    from original MS. map (in colors) in Archivo general de
    Indias, Sevilla                                                35
    Plan of the present condition of Manila and its environs,
    drawn by the engineer Feliciano Márquez, Manila, September
    30, 1767; photographic facsimile from original MS. map
    (in colors) in Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla              83
    Map of the river of Cagayan, showing town sites along its
    banks, 1720(?); drawn by Juan Luis de Acosta; photographic
    facsimile from original MS map in Archivo general de
    Indias, Sevilla                                          182, 183
    Map of Manila Bay, port of Cavite, and Lake of Bay, showing
    depths of various parts of the bay, drawn by the engineer
    Feliciano Márquez, September 28, 1767; from original MS. map
    (in colors) in Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla             201
    Map of Guam, one of the Marianas Islands, in Concepción's
    Historia general (Sampaloc, 1788-1792), vii, facing p. 145;
    photographic facsimile from copy in library of Harvard
    University                                                    291








PREFACE


In this volume is a brief outline of events from the restoration
of Manila by the English (1764) to 1800; and a group of documents
relating to the more important topics in the first decade of that
period. The condition of the islands and their people at that time
is well described by the able and patriotic officials Viana and Anda;
and the "ordinances of good government" are an important addition to
our sources of information regarding the administration of justice in
Filipinas. The most important event of that time was the expulsion of
the Jesuits from the Spanish dominions, although its great significance
in Europe was but feebly reflected in those remote colonies.

In a brief summary are noted the leading events in Filipinas from
1764 to 1800. Manila is restored to the Spanish authorities by the
English on March 31, 1764; a few months before, Archbishop Rojo had
died, in captivity. The brief term of the temporary