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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

Among many other injuries that the said favorite had done to the
citizens of Manila was this, that he caused the governor to hold back
the reward that his Majesty granted to General Don Pedro de Almonte,
[in appointing him] master-of-camp, with the bestowal of the habit of
Santiago, for his great services in Ternate, Mindanao, and Joló (some
of which we have mentioned before in this history). [Don Diego did so]
because that favorite had risen to the said post (the second after
the governor of Filipinas), as the regularly-appointed master-of-camp,
Don Fernando de Ayala--a brave soldier of Flandes in the time of the
count of Fuentes, who added so great luster to the Spanish arms--had
died in the beginning [of his term].

The governor surrendered the appointment to Don Pedro de Almonte,
and put him in possession of the government of the army as
its master-of-camp. Also, as a professed knight of the Order of
Santiago, he gave him his habit in the convent of Santa Clara for
the consolation of a daughter who was a nun there. The prior of our
convent of Manila, Fray Dionisio Suárez, was present at the ceremonies
that were celebrated at the said function.

Afflicted Manila began to take breath and that so long storm died
down. For although the governor was by nature so retiring, he was
very upright, and in the highest degree disinterested--a quality that
rendered his harsh rectitude tolerable. Many who had been exiled to
the presidios of Ternate, Zamboanga, and other forts in these islands,
began to come back to their homes. Many citizens were released from the
prison where they were confined, and returned to attend to the common
welfare, the governor substituting methods of more peaceful operation,
which tempered the austerity of his integrity. The favorite remained
in prison until the new governor, Don Sabiniano Manrique de Lara,
gave sentence in his cause. [76]





CHAPTER X

    Of the election of our father Fray Andrés Verdugo as provincial;
    and the arrival of Governor Don Sabiniano Manrique de Lara and
    Archbishop Don Miguel de Poblete.

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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

Among many other injuries that the said favorite had done to the
citizens of Manila was this, that he caused the governor to hold back
the reward that his Majesty granted to General Don Pedro de Almonte,
[in appointing him] master-of-camp, with the bestowal of the habit of
Santiago, for his great services in Ternate, Mindanao, and Joló (some
of which we have mentioned before in this history). [Don Diego did so]
because that favorite had risen to the said post (the second after
the governor of Filipinas), as the regularly-appointed master-of-camp,
Don Fernando de Ayala--a brave soldier of Flandes in the time of the
count of Fuentes, who added so great luster to the Spanish arms--had
died in the beginning [of his term].

The governor surrendered the appointment to Don Pedro de Almonte,
and put him in possession of the government of the army as
its master-of-camp. Also, as a professed knight of the Order of
Santiago, he gave him his habit in the convent of Santa Clara for
the consolation of a daughter who was a nun there. The prior of our
convent of Manila, Fray Dionisio Suárez, was present at the ceremonies
that were celebrated at the said function.

Afflicted Manila began to take breath and that so long storm died
down. For although the governor was by nature so retiring, he was
very upright, and in the highest degree disinterested--a quality that
rendered his harsh rectitude tolerable. Many who had been exiled to
the presidios of Ternate, Zamboanga, and other forts in these islands,
began to come back to their homes. Many citizens were released from the
prison where they were confined, and returned to attend to the common
welfare, the governor substituting methods of more peaceful operation,
which tempered the austerity of his integrity. The favorite remained
in prison until the new governor, Don Sabiniano Manrique de Lara,
gave sentence in his cause. [76]





CHAPTER X

    Of the election of our father Fray Andrés Verdugo as provincial;
    and the arrival of Governor Don Sabiniano Manrique de Lara and
    Archbishop Don Miguel de Poblete.

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

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