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
At eleven o'clock at night on October nine, the father commissary of
the Holy Office of the Inquisition went to the governor's palace,
accompanied by brother Fray Juan de Panos. [152] In their company
they took Captain Francisco de Vizcarra, alguacil-mayor of the Holy
Office; the commander Sebastián Rayo Doria and Captain Don Nicolás
Muñoz de Pamplona, alcaldes-in-ordinary of the city of Manila;
Sargento-mayor Don Juan de Morales, and Captain Juan Tirado; Captain
Don Luís de Morales Camacho, Captain Don Tomás de Castro y Andrade,
and Captain Don Gonzalo Samaniego. Besides these, entered Captain
Miguel de Cárdenas, and Captain Diego de Palencia; Alférez Antonio
de Monroy, familiar of the Holy Office; the reverend father Fray
Francisco Solier, provincial of the Order of St. Francis; and fathers
Fray Mateo Bayón [153] and Fray Francisco de Pamplona of the same
order, of the Friars Minor. The master-of-camp, Don Agustín de Cepeda
Carnacedo, who had purposely placed on guard in the palace his nephew,
Don Miguel de Alegría, with his company, was there beforehand waiting
for them. They all went up to the sleeping-apartment of the governor,
while the master-of-camp remained in the guardroom and gave orders
to the soldiers not to stir even if they heard some noise above.
The father commissary, the alcaldes, the religious, and some of
the company went upstairs, while the others remained below with the
master-of-camp; and the former reached the sleeping-apartments of
Don Diego de Salcedo. They summoned a servant maid to open the door,
telling her that the factor Juan de Verastein, who was bringing the
silver from the ship "Buen Socorro" which was at Lampón, had arrived;
and the maid opened the door without mistrusting danger. [154] All of
them entered the apartment and, reaching the governor's bed, awakened
him. At the same time they cut the fastenings of the bed-canopy,
which, falling down upon the governor in his half-awake condition,
left him enveloped in it, and unable to make the slightest movement
of defense. They had planned to do this, in order that the governor
might not be able to make use of a rack well supplied with firearms,
which he kept loaded and ready at his bedside. At that juncture the
commissary arrived, and told the governor that he must surrender
to the Holy Office of the Inquisition, to which the governor in his
confusion had no other answer to make than "Yes," and saying that he
yielded himself a prisoner. A pair of manacles that they had prepared
were placed on him. As they were riveted home Don Diego de Salcedo
said "Do not hurt me;" to which one of the bystanders answered "Your
Lordship has hurt us more." That appeared very wrong to the others,
and they checked the lack of respect which that person showed. That
man, it is said, was the commander and alcalde-in-ordinary Sebastián
Rayo Doria. [155]
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