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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 37, 1669-1676: 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

History

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 37, 1669-1676: 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

Since the pacification of the insurrection of the Indians of Palapag
(in the province of Leite) in Pintados was finished in that year of
one thousand six hundred and fifty, I shall here insert some notice
of that insurrection, leaving the historians of the Society of Jesus
to deal with it more particularly--who as they were eyewitnesses of
it, will have more individual information about its events. [Diaz's
account of this insurrection will appear in another place.]

Another very considerable misfortune happened at that time, namely,
the loss of the galleon "Encarnación," under command of General Don
López Colíndrico. It was broken to pieces at a place called Balón,
because it left Acapulco late, and because, having lost the better
season of the brisas, the favorable winds, ran aground at Bagambog, on
the coast of Caraga in the island of Mindanao--a place where no ship
had passed since the year 1542, when General Ruy López de Villalobos
anchored there with his fleet. The governor sent orders to Andrés
López de Asaldigui, his chief lieutenant, to go to investigate the
loss of the galleon "Encarnación."





CHAPTER IX

    Events of the years 1651 and 1652.


[Manila had been in distress for some years because of the loss
of various galleons, and because of the unfortunate temperament of
the governor, Diego Fajardo, and his consequent governing through
his favorite.]

That internal war lasted for seven years in the afflicted community of
Manila, and no one dared to undeceive the severe governor regarding
the injuries committed in his name by his favorite, who made him
hated in the community, and guilty of the imprisonment and exiles
that were executed not only on laymen but also on the secular clergy
and religious. For in order to have control of those whom the Church
exempted from his jurisdiction, he succeeded in removing the dean,
Doctor Don Juan Vélez, from the post of provisor and vicar-general
of the vacant see, and having it given to his intimate friend and
confederate, Doctor Don Francisco Fernández Ledo. With that same
diligence he contrived and obtained the exile of Doctor Don Diego de
Cartagena y Pantoja [75] and other secular clergy to Macasar.

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History

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 37, 1669-1676: 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

Since the pacification of the insurrection of the Indians of Palapag
(in the province of Leite) in Pintados was finished in that year of
one thousand six hundred and fifty, I shall here insert some notice
of that insurrection, leaving the historians of the Society of Jesus
to deal with it more particularly--who as they were eyewitnesses of
it, will have more individual information about its events. [Diaz's
account of this insurrection will appear in another place.]

Another very considerable misfortune happened at that time, namely,
the loss of the galleon "Encarnación," under command of General Don
López Colíndrico. It was broken to pieces at a place called Balón,
because it left Acapulco late, and because, having lost the better
season of the brisas, the favorable winds, ran aground at Bagambog, on
the coast of Caraga in the island of Mindanao--a place where no ship
had passed since the year 1542, when General Ruy López de Villalobos
anchored there with his fleet. The governor sent orders to Andrés
López de Asaldigui, his chief lieutenant, to go to investigate the
loss of the galleon "Encarnación."





CHAPTER IX

    Events of the years 1651 and 1652.


[Manila had been in distress for some years because of the loss
of various galleons, and because of the unfortunate temperament of
the governor, Diego Fajardo, and his consequent governing through
his favorite.]

That internal war lasted for seven years in the afflicted community of
Manila, and no one dared to undeceive the severe governor regarding
the injuries committed in his name by his favorite, who made him
hated in the community, and guilty of the imprisonment and exiles
that were executed not only on laymen but also on the secular clergy
and religious. For in order to have control of those whom the Church
exempted from his jurisdiction, he succeeded in removing the dean,
Doctor Don Juan Vélez, from the post of provisor and vicar-general
of the vacant see, and having it given to his intimate friend and
confederate, Doctor Don Francisco Fernández Ledo. With that same
diligence he contrived and obtained the exile of Doctor Don Diego de
Cartagena y Pantoja [75] and other secular clergy to Macasar.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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