Chapter I: Front Matter

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 XLVI, 1721-1739

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 XLVI

Preface 13

Document of 1721-1739

Events in Filipinas, 1721-1739. Compiled from various
authors, fully credited in text 31

Bibliographical Data 63

Appendix: Education in the Philippines

Primary instruction. In various parts, as follows: I. First
governmental attempts. Vicente Barrantes; Madrid, 1869.
[Condensed from his La instrucción primaria en Filipinas.]
II. Organized effort of legislation. Daniel Grifol y Aliaga;
Manila, 1894. [From preface to his La instrucción primaria en
Filipinas.] III. Royal decree establishing plan of primary
instruction in Filipinas. José de la Concha; December 20,
1863. [From Grifol y Aliaga's La instrucción primaria en
Filipinas; as are all the following parts.] IV. Regulations
for the normal school. José de la Concha; December 20, 1863.
V. Regulations for schools and teachers of primary instruction.
José de la Concha; December 20, 1863. VI. Interior regulations
of schools of primary instruction. José de la Concha; December
20, 1863. VII. Decree approving regulations of municipal girls'
school.----Echague; February 15, 1864. VIII. Regulations for
the municipal girls' school. Manila Ayuntamiento; February 15,
1864. IX. Circular giving rules for the good discharge of school
supervision.----Gándara; August 30, 1867. X. Decree approving
regulations for women's normal school.----Malcampo; June 19,
1875. XI. Regulations for women's normal school.----Malcampo;
June 19, 1875. XII. Royal decree creating women's normal
school. María Cristina and Francisco Romero Robledo; March 11,
1892. XIII. Royal order approving regulations for women's
normal school. Francisco Romero Robledo; March 31, 1892.
XIV. Regulations for women's normal school. Francisco Romero
Robledo; March 31, 1892. XV. Decree elevating men's normal
school to the grade of superior. Hermenegildo Jacas; November
1, 1893; and A. Avilés and Manuel Blanco Valderrama, November
10, 1893. XVI. Regulations of superior normal school for men
teachers. Manuel Blanco Valderrama, November 10, 1893.
XVII. School legislation, 1863-1894 67

Dominican educational institutions, 1896-1897. [Unsigned
and undated.] 261

Report of religious schools, 1897. [Unsigned and undated.] 265

Educational institutions of the Recollects. [Unsigned and
undated; 1897?] 268

The friar viewpoint. In two parts. I. Education. Eduardo
Navarro, O.S.A.; Madrid, 1897. [From his Estudio de algunos
asuntos de actualidad.] II. Eladio Zamora, O.S.A.; Valladolid,
1901. [From his Las corporaciones religiosas en Filipinas.] 272

Education since American occupation. Editorial, and compiled
from various sources 364

ILLUSTRATIONS

Plan of Cebú Cathedral; drawn by Juan de Siscarra, engineer,
1719; photographic facsimile of original MS. map in Archivo
general de Indias, Sevilla Frontispiece
Autograph signature of Joseph Torrubia, O.S.F.; from original
manuscript in Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla 35
Title-page of Dissertacion historico-politita, by Joseph
Torrubia (Madrid, 1753); photographic facsimile from copy in
library of Harvard University 41
Map showing new route from Manila to Acapulco, presented to
Governor Fernando Valdés Tamón by the pilot, Enrique Hermán,
1730; photographic facsimile of original MS. map in Archivo
general de Indias, Sevilla 49
Plan of infantry barracks in Manila; drawn by the military
engineer, Thomas de Castro y Andrade, 1733; photographic
facsimile from original manuscript in Archivo general de
Indias, Sevilla 53