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 same is true of] General Sebastian Rayo for the following reason:
that during the five years while Don Diego was governor Don Sebastian
was twice arrested--once by order of Don Francisco Coloma, former judge
of the residencia of Don Sabiniano, on account of matters pertaining
to the said residencia; and because on Corpus Christi day, when it
was celebrated this year, he refused to allow the captain of the
guard, Don Juan de Ezquerra, to walk in the place belonging to the
alcaldes. [General Sebastian Rayo], not wishing the captain of the
guard to retire from his place accompanying the procession, turned
toward his Lordship, and in a loud voice said to the [officials of]
the city of Manila, "Only his Majesty and those who represent his
royal person can settle this matter, and no one else can do so with
proper zeal." His Lordship was displeased at the manner in which
he spoke to him in so public a place, while walking in the group of
the Audiencia with the honorable auditors, and regarded his speech as
disrespectful. When the procession was ended, the governor ordered the
general to be arrested and placed in the castle at the port of Cavite,
bringing suit against him. During this interval, the said General Rayo
was at the point of death; for he was in distress from the dampness of
that locality and the disease of beri-beri from which he suffered. At
his petition the governor removed the general to the city, so that
he might stay in his house as a prisoner, until the conclusion of his
suit; but the imprisonment of his Lordship occurred before that time.
Captain Don Nicolas de Pamplona, the second alcalde, also bore a grudge
against his Lordship--partly on account of the said imprisonment of
the master-of-camp, Don Agustin de Cepeda, his brother-in-law; and
partly because his Lordship had imprisoned him also, because complaint
had been made to his Lordship by father Fray Pedro Bautista, former
provincial of the Order of St. Francis, that the said captain while
alcalde-mayor of the province of Bulacan had levied a repartimiento
of Indians to cut timber for building his house in the city.
Sargento-mayor Diego de Morales was also resentful because his
Lordship sent him to the province of Cagayan for military service,
and it is not long since he was recalled thence.
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