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
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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
Demarcation line of Alexander VI; Missions -- Philippines; Philippines -- Discovery and exploration; Philippines -- History -- Sources
[The governor causes the archbishop to disembark first, in order that
he might bless the land; as if in return for this, the sardines,
which had deserted the bay of Manila at the exile of Archbishop
Guerrero, again entered that bay. The governor, disembarking on the
twenty-second, pays homage to the archbishop. The latter makes his
public entry into Manila on the twenty-fourth and the governor the next
day. The Recollects bring a holy picture (an Ecce Homo) which becomes
an object of veneration in their convent of San Nicolás at Manila,
where the new governor attends. The first work of the latter is to take
the residencia of his predecessor, which is entrusted to the direction
of Auditor Sebastián Caballero de Medina. The charges preferred are
those of harsh conduct, but he is so free from covetousness that "it
is recounted of him that he only drew for his expenses five hundred
pesos monthly out of the pay of thirteen thousand pesos granted
to the governors of these islands; and accordingly, the balance, a
considerable amount, was afterward paid to his heirs." He appeals from
all the charges to the Council of the Indias, and is sent to Spain,
but dies during the voyage, over seventy years of age. Fajardo's
favorite is condemned to be beheaded, to vast fines, and to the
confiscation of his property. He appeals to Spain, but the sentence
is there confirmed. Before the execution of the sentence, however,
he dies in prison, in poverty. His money and movable property are
confiscated by the treasury and his houses on the square opposite
the cathedral are used later as the governor's palace. The prelate
and the governor work hand in hand in the regeneration of Manila.]
The first employment of Don Sabiniano Manrique de Lara in the
beginning of his government, was to appoint the brave Francisco de
Esteybar governor of the forts of Ternate, [84] and the commander Don
Francisco de Atienza of those of Zamboanga, for the credit of the
arms of España against the Dutch and against the king of Mindanao,
Cachil Corralat. He sent Father Magino Sola, of the Society of Jesus,
to the city of Macan as his ambassador, to make a treaty of commerce
and trade. [85] He set a galleon upon the stocks, but he was unable to
do as his great zeal wished because the royal treasury was exhausted
by the lack of supplies from Nueva España, and because the trading
galleons, which communicate vital strength to all these islands,
had put back so many times.
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