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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 35, 1640-1649: 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 35, 1640-1649: 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 King. To the president and auditors of my royal Audiencia of
Manila of the Filipinas Islands: In one section of a letter written
to me by you on June 12, 1636, you say that father Fray Diego Collado
of the Order of St. Dominic went to those islands in the former year
of 35, bearing letters from his general allowing him to take over
some of the houses owned by that order and found a new and distinct
province, the sole business of which is to send ministers for the
conversion of Japon. All of that carried with it great inconvenience,
both because of the injury that that order would receive by a division
of the province (which will bring about laxity in it, although that
province has hitherto been one of those in which the rules of their
order have been observed with the greatest strictness and punctuality),
and in sending ministers to Japon the said order has displayed so much
solicitude that rather has it been necessary to restrain it because
of the umbrage received thereby by that kingdom. That annoyance has
been the occasion for cutting off the trade with those islands; and
it was in great danger of being shut to the Portuguese of Macan, whom
the Japanese have threatened severely if it be found that religious
have gone to that kingdom from those islands, or from any other
part. Consequently, it was certain that father Fray Diego Collado gave
an inaccurate report to his general, and it was not advisable to carry
out the terms of his letters--of which you gave me an account, so that
I might have the evil corrected. The matter having been examined in my
royal Council of the Indias, by a letter of this date I have ordered
and charged you, my president--inasmuch as you did wrong in giving
aid to that father because the brief which he held had not been passed
upon by the said my Council--to cause this and all briefs which he had,
that had not been passed upon by the Council, to be suspended, and not
to allow them to be carried into effect. In regard to the division of
the provinces, they shall return to their former condition. In order
that my commands may have the due effect, I order you and my Audiencia
to assist in the fulfilment of the aforesaid decree, so that it may
be executed without any omission. When that is done, you shall advise
me of it at the first opportunity. Given in Madrid, February 21, 1638.


I the King

By order of the king our sovereign: Don Gabriel Ocaña y Alarcon"

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