1 The British Museum holds copies of correspondence and papers relating to the British occupation of the Philippines, 1763–4, Brit. Mus., Francis Papers, IV, Add. MSS., 40, 759; and correspondence relating to the army of occupation, Add. MSS., 40, 344. The Public Record Office contains a considerable amount of material on the naval aspects of the conquest. Admiralty correspondence with Admiral Cornish is in Admiralty, 1/162 and 2/1332. Logs of the different vessels are here, e.g. for the flagship Norfolk, Admiralty, 51/643. Correspondence of Draper on the conquest is in CO. 77/20, as well as the secret instructions of George III. The Home Miscellaneous series of the India Office Library contains the largest single collection of documents on the conquest. H.M. 76, 77, 97, 98, 101, 102 (4), 455, contain a great deal on the civil administration of Manila under the East India Company. And the Orme Collection, 19, 22, 27, describe affairs in the city after the conquest. The Madras Military Consultations, Vol. 48, are also of interest. The University Library, Cambridge, Conway Collection, Add. MSS., 7277 (7), (8), (9), (10), (12), contains several interesting typescripts from the Archivo General de la Nación, Mexico, Inquisición, 1036, of reconciliation proceedings with the Roman Catholic Church, of British sailors who deserted during the occupation of Manila. A good bibliography of the English conquest, including archival sources, is in Julian, Elisa Atayde, British Projects and Activities in the Philippines, 1759–1805, Ph.D. Thesis, University of London, 1963.
2 The Archivo General de Indias, Seville, has six bundles dealing exclusively with the conquest of Manila; A.G.I., Filipinas, 717–22. Bundles 717 and 718 deal with the English attempt to obtain the ransom promised for the city. Bundles 719–22 are for the most part copies of the Jesuit material in San Cugat. The Gracia and Justicia section of Simancas contains Jesuit letters which describe the siege and conquest, and in the Estado section I remember seeing documents dealing with the attempt to secure from the Spanish government the ransom promised for the city of Manila. However, I cannot remember the exact reference. The Newberry Library, Chicago, has a number of original Spanish documents dealing with the conquest as well as a number of transcripts of A.G.I. material. These are noted in Lietz, Paul S., Calendar of Philippine Documents in the Ayer Collection of the Newberry Library (Chicago, 1956), nos. 93–153.
3 Navarro, P. Eduardo, Documentos indispensables para la verdadera historia de Filipinas, 2 vols. (Madrid, 1908), contains the Spanish translations of Draper's correspondence with Rojo and other documents from A.G.I. Volume II deals almost exclusively with the guerrilla activity of Simón de Anda. Records of Fort St. George. Manilha Consultations (1762)–[1704], 8 vols. (Madras, 1941–1942), thoroughly covers the civil administration of Manila by the East India Company. (This collection, scarce but not rare, can be found in I.O.R., W/2152.) B.R., Vol. 49 (1762–5) contains English translations of A.G.I. documents on the conquest of Manila; and Redington, Joseph, Calendar of Home Office Papers of the Reign of George III (London, 1878), abstracts a considerable number of State Papers Domestic documents in P.R.O. dealing with various aspects of the Manila conquest.
4 José Montero y Vidal, Historia general de Filipinas, 3 vols. (Madrid, 1887–1895), apparently used the material now in A.G.I, when treating the conquest in Vol. II, 7–75; as did the Marqués de Ayerbe, Sitio y conquista de Manila por los ingleses (Zaragoza, 1897), although he does not cite sources. Quiason, Serafin, English ‘Country Trade’ with the Philippines, 1664–1765 (Quezon City, 1966), utilized the I.O.R. documents, while Leebrick, Karl C., ‘Troubles of an English Governor of the Philippine Islands’, in Stephens, H. Morse and Bolton, Herbert E., The Pacific Ocean in History (New York, 1917), pp. 192–213, uses transcripts of material from the Record Office at Madras, which seem to be similar to I.O.R. documentation dealing with the civil administration of Manila.
5 de la Costa, Horacio, ‘The Siege and Capture of Manila by the British, September–October 1762’, Philippine Studies, X (10, 1962), 607–53, published twenty documents with translation and commentary from File 1 of the San Cugat material. This, however, has been the only attempt made to utilize the Jesuit material on the conquest.
6 Documents from the Manila Archives were gradually transferred to Spain, and frequently at the specific request of Fr. Pablo Pastells, who was working at the time in Barcelona and Seville on various aspects of Jesuit mission history. de la Costa, Horacio, The Jesuits in the Philippines, 1581–1768 (Cambridge, Mass., 1961), cites the San Cugat material as Aragón. This is because the present Jesuit province of Tarragona incorporated the old province of Aragón which at one time had charge of the Philippine mission. The documents were originally part of the province of Aragón archives after they were transferred from the Philippines.
7 Unfortunately, the archive has not been carefully catalogued. However, the most important holdings were microfilmed by Ernest Burrus, S.J., and films are on deposit in the Pius II Library of St. Louis University, U.S.A., and in the microfilm collection of the Ateneo de Manila University Library, Manila.
8 de la Costa, ‘The Siege and Capture of Manila’, 608, note 4.
9 See Document 48, page 88, for a description of this diary.
10 Pablo Pastells, S.P., was superior of the Jesuits in the Philippines from 1888 to 1893. When he returned to Spain he began a period of research into Jesuit activity in the Philippines. His work on the Philippines includes editions of Francisco Colin, Labor evangélica, 3 vols. (Barcelona, 1900–1902), (1663), and with Retana, W., Historia de Mindanao, Jolo y sus adyacentes (Madrid, 1897), (1667), by Francisco Combés. He also wrote a ‘Historia general de Filipinas’, in Pedro Torres y Lanzas, Catálogo de los documentos relativos a las Islas Filipinas en el Archivo de Indias de Sevilla, 9 vols. (Barcelona, 1925–1936), and Misión de la Compañia de Jesús de Filipinas en el siglo XIX, 3 vols. (Barcelona, 1916–1917).
11 See the letter of Captain Thomas Backhouse, 1765, in Redington, Calendar of Home Office Papers of the Reign of George III, 589, no. 1865.
