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
On the same day, Don Juan Manuel arranged the camp to suit his own
pleasure. He appointed Don Juan de Morales Valenzuela sargento-mayor,
after removing Don Nicolás Sarmiento; he made his own son, Don
Juan Manuel, captain of his guard, and changed many of the infantry
captains. It seems that the two auditors Coloma and Mansilla feared
some violence; and for greater harmony retired, together with
the fiscal Don Diego de Corbera and the secretary of the chamber,
Tomás de Palenzuela Zurbarán to the college of the Society of Jesus,
and convened the Audiencia in the library of the said college. They
despatched a number of royal decrees ordering Don Juan Manuel to
govern and rule as they two determined, since it was they who owned
that right, which was still in litigation. But it appears that Don
Juan Manuel had no such intention, and so much was he able to do
by his sagacity and the interposition of grave persons (in which
intervened Fathers Javier Riquelme, [158] the rector, Miguel Solana,
and Pedro de Espinar [159] of the Society of Jesus)--and of lawyers,
such as Manuel Suárez de Olivera, Don Eugenio Gutiérrez de Mendoza,
and Don Juan de Rosales, that after many controversies, which have
no place here, the two auditors and the fiscal were confined to
their homes. When one would have thought them safest, Don Juan Manuel
arrested them all in their own houses. He sent Don Francisco de Coloma
to the village of Bay with an order to the alcalde-mayor Don Antonio
Quijano to watch over his person; and Doctor Don Diego de Corbera,
the fiscal, and his wife Doña María Jiménez to the island of Luban,
fourteen leguas from Manila--where he died in a few months, I know not
whether of sorrow or illness. He ordered Don Francisco Mansilla [160]
to embark in a champan for Octong, delivering the care of his person to
a brave mulatto--a native of Sevilla, and a soldier of Ternate--named
Simón de Torres, whom he made captain of the fleet of Iloilo, sending
a very stringent order to the sargento-mayor Francisco Prado de Quirós
not to allow Don Francisco to leave that presidio. He did so, and the
auditor remained there until the new governor, Don Manuel de León,
ordered that he be recalled thence. Don Francisco de Coloma remained
but a short time in Bay, for, like the good Christian that he was,
he submitted himself, yielding to the condition of the times, in
order to avoid scandal. Thus Don Juan Manuel withdrew him, and the
two ruled over political matters, Don Francisco Coloma signing first,
and Don Juan Manuel de la Peña governed in military affairs.
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