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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

The pens of jurisconsults were not lacking to defend the government
of Don Juan Manuel de la Peña as legitimate. Among others, Licentiate
Don Juan de Rosales, a lawyer of the royal Audiencia and alcalde-mayor
of Tondo for the new governor, published a printed manifesto of which
many copies may be found in possession of persons who are curious. But
afterward, at a safe time, he published another manuscript against
his antagonist Licentiate Manuel Suárez de Olivera, in which he not
only accuses Don Juan Manuel of being a usurper, but also as guilty
of lese-majesty. Tot capita, tot sententiae. [161]





CHAPTER XXXIII

    Coming of the governor Don Manuel de León y Sarabia; and arrival
    of a plentiful mission of religious.

(1669-70)


The government of Don Juan Manuel de la Peña lasted for eleven months,
amid great quiet for the community of Manila, as he was very prudent
and peaceable, and, above all, disinterested--which appears to have
been lacking in his predecessor, on which account there was so great
discontent with the latter's government. [162] He despatched two
galleons to Nueva España--"Nuestra Señora del Buen Socorro," in charge
of the same commander, Diego de Arévalo; and the flagship "San Diego,"
in charge of Don Francisco Vizcarra, alguacil-mayor of the Holy Office,
who had arrested Don Diego de Salcedo. The latter was served by Captain
Miguel Cárdenas, Juan de Alquiza, and others. But neither of the two
ships made the voyage; for the flagship, which sailed from Lampón,
put back at Cavite, and the almiranta, which sailed from Cavite, put
back at Lampón. They placed Don Diego in the convent of Guadalupe,
whence, as he was sick, they took him to Los Baños on Laguna de Bay. He
left there the following year, in order to prosecute his voyage to
Acapulco; and he died in the northern latitude, very well prepared,
and as a good Christian--leaving behind great hopes for his salvation,
as one whom our Lord had brought back to obedience by the road of
tribulation, through so grievous a stroke.

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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

The pens of jurisconsults were not lacking to defend the government
of Don Juan Manuel de la Peña as legitimate. Among others, Licentiate
Don Juan de Rosales, a lawyer of the royal Audiencia and alcalde-mayor
of Tondo for the new governor, published a printed manifesto of which
many copies may be found in possession of persons who are curious. But
afterward, at a safe time, he published another manuscript against
his antagonist Licentiate Manuel Suárez de Olivera, in which he not
only accuses Don Juan Manuel of being a usurper, but also as guilty
of lese-majesty. Tot capita, tot sententiae. [161]





CHAPTER XXXIII

    Coming of the governor Don Manuel de León y Sarabia; and arrival
    of a plentiful mission of religious.

(1669-70)


The government of Don Juan Manuel de la Peña lasted for eleven months,
amid great quiet for the community of Manila, as he was very prudent
and peaceable, and, above all, disinterested--which appears to have
been lacking in his predecessor, on which account there was so great
discontent with the latter's government. [162] He despatched two
galleons to Nueva España--"Nuestra Señora del Buen Socorro," in charge
of the same commander, Diego de Arévalo; and the flagship "San Diego,"
in charge of Don Francisco Vizcarra, alguacil-mayor of the Holy Office,
who had arrested Don Diego de Salcedo. The latter was served by Captain
Miguel Cárdenas, Juan de Alquiza, and others. But neither of the two
ships made the voyage; for the flagship, which sailed from Lampón,
put back at Cavite, and the almiranta, which sailed from Cavite, put
back at Lampón. They placed Don Diego in the convent of Guadalupe,
whence, as he was sick, they took him to Los Baños on Laguna de Bay. He
left there the following year, in order to prosecute his voyage to
Acapulco; and he died in the northern latitude, very well prepared,
and as a good Christian--leaving behind great hopes for his salvation,
as one whom our Lord had brought back to obedience by the road of
tribulation, through so grievous a stroke.

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

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