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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

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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

Events in Filipinas. [Unsigned; Francisco de Figueroa?]; January
    15, 1669.
    The Dominicans in the Philippines, 1641-69. Baltasar de Santa Cruz,
    O.P.; 1676. [From his Historia.]
    The Augustinians in the Philippines, 1641-70. Casimiro Diaz,
    O.S.A.; 1718. [From his Conquistas.]
    Manila and the Philippines about 1650 (to be concluded). Domingo
    Fernandez Navarrete, O.P.; 1676. [From his Tratados historicos.]


Sources: The first of these documents is obtained from the Ventura
del Arco MSS. (Ayer library), ii, pp. 643-692. The second, from Santa
Cruz's Historia del Sant. Rosario (Zaragoça, 1693), pp. 44 et seq.;
from a copy in the possession of Edward E. Ayer, Chicago. The third,
from Diaz's Conquistas (Manila, 1890), pp. 444 et seq.; from a copy
in the possession of James A. Robertson. The fourth, from Navarrete's
Tratados historicos (Madrid, 1676), pp. 299-332; from a copy in the
Library of Congress; this document will be concluded in VOL. XXXVIII.

Translations: The first document is translated by Emma Helen Blair;
the remainder, by James A. Robertson.







EVENTS IN FILIPINAS, 1668


Copy of a letter written by a citizen of Manila to another at the
court in Madrid

It is notorious among all the people of these islands that Don Diego
Salcedo, [1] as soon as he took possession of their government,
deprived me of the command that I held as captain-general of the
artillery therein--without any further reason than that I was a
follower of Don Sabiniano Manrrique de Lara, his predecessor. The
latter governed these islands with ability as his works show--bestowing
honors with liberal hand on all the citizens of this state; and
rewarding all whose standing and services deserved it, and even
many more. How little gratitude he received for these favors may
be learned from his own confession and statement. He suffered much
in the residencia which he furnished of his government; although
he deserved to leave it with laurels, he experienced intolerable
severities inflicted by those whom he had most benefited. Don Diego was
not content with depriving me of my command, but desired to inflict
further injury upon me, and one which would result in more annoyance
to Don Sabiniano Manrrique de Lara--to whom I owe what I am; and I
have striven to repay, to some extent, by personal service the much
that I owed him by attending to the business matters that came up in
his residencia, and providing an outfit of stores for his voyage. In
order, therefore, to remove me from Don Sabiniano's side, Don Diego
commanded me to go with some infantry to protect the coast of the
province of Tayabas; he said that he had news that the armed fleets
of Borney and Mindanao were roaming about infesting the villages
of the island of Mindoro, and that they comprised 170 vessels. His
object, as above stated, was evident in the scanty equipment of
men and supplies that was furnished to me. I remained there until

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