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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 26 of 55, 1636: 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 — John Shaqi

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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 26 of 55, 1636: 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

The nuns of St. Clare at Manila. Miguel Perez, O.S.F., and others;
    1635-36.
    Relation of 1635-36. [Unsigned; Manila?]; June.
    Letters to Felipe IV. Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera; June 30.
    Letter to Father Felipe de Cardenas. Cristobal de Lara, S.J.;
    July 3.
    Letter to Felipe IV. Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera; July 11.
    Hospitals and hospital contributions. Sebastian Hurtado de
    Corcuera, and others; July-August.



Sources: All but two of these documents are obtained from MSS. in
the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla. The second and fourth are
from MSS. in the Academia Real de la Historia, Madrid.

Translations: The first, third, and sixth are translated by James
A. Robertson; the second and fourth, by Robert W. Haight; the fifth,
by Emma Helen Blair.






THE NUNS OF ST. CLARE AT MANILA


_Petition of their procurator_


Sire:


Fray Miguel Perez, discalced Recollect of the Order of St. Francis,
procurator and vicar for the nuns of the convent of St. Clare of
the city of Manila, in virtue of the authority which he holds from
the said convent (which he presents) says that, as is apparent from
the said authority, Captain Gaspar Mendez and other devout persons,
who have served and serve your Majesty in military affairs in the
Philipinas Islands, have done the same to the said convent for the
building of it and of the church, by giving them seven thousand ducados
in warrants for what your Majesty owes them from their pay. That has
served as an aid in their building. Having petitioned your Majesty to
grant favor to the said convent by ordering the royal officials to
pay the said warrants, by a decree of the Council of April sixteen
(which he presents), it was decreed that he should present the
warrants and declare whence they proceeded. As he has declared in
the same memorial that they proceed from the pay of soldiers, those
warrants, as they are unnecessary here, have not been brought. Hence,
since that money is to be used for a work so holy, he is confident
that your Majesty will grant them the favor whom they entreat, and
which they will receive as a special kindness from your Majesty.

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