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
When the time arrived, Governor Don Diego de Salcedo embarked, taking
with him the most distinguished train of people that has been seen on
any occasion. For of captains alone there were twenty-six, and I think
it advisable to inscribe their names here, because of the great honor
and prestige that they brought to the community of Manila. They were
as follows: Don Antonio Sanchez de Quirós, ex-captain of cuirassiers
in Flandes; Juan Martinez Corrionero, alférez and adjutant in Flandes;
Don Francisco de Moya, Don Juan de Briones, and Don Tomás de Castro
Andrade; [117] Don Pedro de la Peña Maceda, a soldier of Flandes; Don
Antonio Xigundi; Don Francisco and Don Martín de Tejada, brothers;
Don Luis Matienzo, Don Juan de Guzman, Don Pedro Mendiguerren,
and Don José Alsara; Don José Cornices, and Don Gonzalo Samaniego;
Juan de Alquica, a brave Vizcayan; Juan de Palomares Castro, Don Juan
de Pimentel, Don Feliciano Velázquez, and Don Joaquin Ramírez; Don
Francisco Vanderváez, Don Alonso Valdés, and Don Juan Giménez; Don
Pedro de la Mancha, Don Diego Castañeda, and Don Miguel de Alegría;
the chief pilot, Leandro Cuello; and others. Two auditors embarked,
namely, Licentiate Don Francisco de Coloma Maceda, and Licentiate Don
Francisco de Mansilla Montemayor; and many other persons of account.
Father Fray José de Paternina, whom the Inquisitors of Méjico had
appointed commissary of the Holy Office for the city of Manila,
embarked with eleven of our religious; and father Fray Cristobal de
Santa Mónica, of the discalced religious of our father St. Augustine,
with another fine and more numerous mission--among whom was that
virtuous and erudite preacher, Fray Isidoro de Jesús María, one of the
best preachers of that century, whose sermons might arouse admiration
in Europa. Where he surpassed, moreover, was in those that he preached,
for twenty consecutive years, on the sorrows of most holy Mary. But
his sermons did not have the good fortune to be printed, except the
first on that subject, and a few others on other festal occasions.
Governor Don Diego was very angry at the affront that the viceroy
had put upon the commander, Francisco García del Fresno, without any
authority for it beyond the mere authority of viceroy. Therefore, as
soon as the galleon left the port of Acapulco and had lost sight of
land, he ordered the drums to be beaten, and deprived the commander
Don Andrés de Medina of his office, which he restored to Francisco
García. When that was learned in the royal and supreme Council of the
Indias, his Majesty approved of it, and issued a new decree ordering
the viceroys of Nueva España not to change the commanders or those
who were to succeed in the second place [as governor]. Don Andrés
de Medina, being a wise and prudent man, made no resistance, except
that he retired to the quarters of the boatswain, from which he did
not emerge until the galleon after many months cast anchor at Cavite.
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