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Some duties of friars assigned in mission territories:
§ inform periodically their superiors of what was going on in their
respective assignments
§ report the number of natives they converted, the people's way of life,
their socio-economic situation and the problems they encountered
§ some submitted short letters while others who were keen observers
and gifted writers wrote long dispatches.
Spanish friars
Many of the what we know about Philippine history during the first
century of the Spanish period were derived from the accounts of the
,Miguel de Loarca
• Arrived in 1576 and became an encomendero of Panay.
• He wrote Relación de las Islas Filipinas (1582) and his work described
the way of life of Filipinos living in Western Visayas area.
Other Spanish missionaries who continued the historiographical tradition
• Fr. Pedro Chirino S.J. (Relación de las Islas Filipinas, 1604;
• Fr. Juan Delgado S.J. (Historia General, 1751);
• Fr. Francisco Colin S.J. (Labor Evangelica, 1663);
• Francisco Ignacio Alcina S.J. (Historia natural del sitio, fertilidad y
calidad de las Islas e Indios de Bisayas, 1668); and
• Fr. Joaquin Martinez de Zuniga O.S.A. (Historia, 1803).
Antonio de Morga
• He came to the Philippines in 1595 as Asesor and Teniente General.
• His Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas gives us a lot of information about the
state of the Philippines at the latter part of the 16th century.
, friar account
The work of Plasencia is considered by many historians as an example of
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This kind of writing is one of the most common contemporaneous
account during the early part of the Spanish period.
Archivo General de Indias (A.G.I.) Seville, Spain.
Original copy of Plancencia's Custom of Tagalog
Archivo Franciscano Ibero-Oriental (A.F.I.O.), in Madrid, Spain
English version of Plancencia's Custom of Tagalog
Volume VII of the Blair and Robertson collections
English version of Plancencia's Custom of Tagalog appeared on
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pre-Hispanic Philippines of the Filipiniana Book Guild series
Another English version of Plancencia's Custom of Tagalog was
published as part of volume for