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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