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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

After that chapter had been concluded, not only our order but also
the fathers of St. Dominic and our discalced Recollects (who had
celebrated their chapters on the same day) were confronted by a
great exigency. [This is an order by the governor and royal Audiencia
requiring the presentation of the lists of the chapters, as is done in
the other parts of the Indias. The Audiencia being petitioned allows
the orders to continue their former practice in this regard, after
sending an account of the matter to the Council of the Indias. After
a digression called forth by this exigency, the author proceeds:]

As soon as the new governor, Don Sabiniano Manrique de Lara assumed
his office, and had performed his first duties, and had taken the
residencia of his predecessor and given sentence in the cause of the
latter's favorite, he devoted himself with great activity to carrying
out such measures as were possible for establishing the prosperity
of his government. He found the community of Manila greatly afflicted
and weakened by its past troubles and wars, and its wealth exhausted
by the lack of commerce with Nueva España, because of the so repeated
return of the ships in distress and the wrecking of the galleons. In
that year of 1654 was lost a large galleon which was being built
in the kingdom of Camboja at great expense to the royal treasury;
it was dashed to pieces near Luban, fourteen leguas from Manila,
when it was coming here after having been completely finished.

[The remainder of the chapter is concerned with Mindanao affairs,
which will be sufficiently noted elsewhere.]

[Chapter xiv treats of the Chinese pirate Kuesing, and of the answer
sent him by the governor of the Philippines; chapter xv of the
earthquake at Manila, August 20, 1658, and the embassies from Siam
and other kingdoms to the governor; and chapter xvi of Mindanao and
Joló affairs, all of which will be noted hereafter.]





CHAPTER XVII

    Second election as provincial of our father Fray Diego de Ordás;
    loss of the galleon "Victoria;" and insurrection in Pampanga.

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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

After that chapter had been concluded, not only our order but also
the fathers of St. Dominic and our discalced Recollects (who had
celebrated their chapters on the same day) were confronted by a
great exigency. [This is an order by the governor and royal Audiencia
requiring the presentation of the lists of the chapters, as is done in
the other parts of the Indias. The Audiencia being petitioned allows
the orders to continue their former practice in this regard, after
sending an account of the matter to the Council of the Indias. After
a digression called forth by this exigency, the author proceeds:]

As soon as the new governor, Don Sabiniano Manrique de Lara assumed
his office, and had performed his first duties, and had taken the
residencia of his predecessor and given sentence in the cause of the
latter's favorite, he devoted himself with great activity to carrying
out such measures as were possible for establishing the prosperity
of his government. He found the community of Manila greatly afflicted
and weakened by its past troubles and wars, and its wealth exhausted
by the lack of commerce with Nueva España, because of the so repeated
return of the ships in distress and the wrecking of the galleons. In
that year of 1654 was lost a large galleon which was being built
in the kingdom of Camboja at great expense to the royal treasury;
it was dashed to pieces near Luban, fourteen leguas from Manila,
when it was coming here after having been completely finished.

[The remainder of the chapter is concerned with Mindanao affairs,
which will be sufficiently noted elsewhere.]

[Chapter xiv treats of the Chinese pirate Kuesing, and of the answer
sent him by the governor of the Philippines; chapter xv of the
earthquake at Manila, August 20, 1658, and the embassies from Siam
and other kingdoms to the governor; and chapter xvi of Mindanao and
Joló affairs, all of which will be noted hereafter.]





CHAPTER XVII

    Second election as provincial of our father Fray Diego de Ordás;
    loss of the galleon "Victoria;" and insurrection in Pampanga.

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

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