The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 14 of 55: 1606-1609; 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
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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 14 of 55: 1606-1609; 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
Demarcation line of Alexander VI; Missions -- Philippines; Philippines -- Discovery and exploration; Philippines -- History -- Sources
On July 25, 1609, a petition is sent to the king by Miguel Banal
(a descendant of the Moro ruler dispossessed by Legaspi at Manila),
praying for redress against the Jesuits for depriving him and other
Indians at Quiapo of their lands; he asks the king to investigate this
matter anew, and to protect him from further spoliation. The Dominican
missionary Aduarte makes a declaration (in a document undated, but
of 1608) of the reasons why some of his religious belonging to the
mission of 1606 had remained in Nueva Espana, instead of completing the
voyage to the Philippines. Some died on the way, some failed to reach
the port of embarcation, and the ship assigned to the missionaries
was too small to carry all of them. Aduarte remonstrates against the
embarrassments and restrictions with which he and other missionaries
have had to contend; and complains, as before, of the scanty allowance
made for their traveling expenses--illustrating this from his own and
others' experiences. This is followed by a request from the discalced
Augustinians (1609?) for extension of previous permission to send
more of their friars to the Philippines.
_The Editors_
April, 1904.
DOCUMENTS OF 1605
Complaints against the archbishop. Pedro de Acuna, and others;
July 1-4.
Relations with the Chinese. Pedro de Acuna, and others; July 4
and 5.
Letters to Felipe III. Pedro de Acuna; July 1-15.
_Source_: All these documents are obtained from the Archivo general
de Indias, Sevilla.
_Translations_: The first letter in the second document, and the first
two in the third, are translated by Henry B. Lathrop, of the University
of Wisconsin; the remainder, by Robert W. Haight and Emma Helen Blair.
Complaints Against the Archbishop
Sire:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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