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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 disposition of that favorite was very ambitious and proud, which
greatly resembled that of the harsh and austere governor. Consequently,
that sympathy [in characteristics] conciliated the will of the governor
to such an extent that he gave the favorite complete control of the
government--giving him more confidence than he ought, in order to
sink farther into his natural retirement. He decreed what this man
ordered to him, and executed only what was directed by the favorite's
influence. Thereupon the latter began with that license to avenge
certain passions and arrogated to himself all the grandeur, fear,
and respect which was due only to the supreme character of the
governor. Master Don José de Poblete, [69] who died as bishop-elect
of Nueva Segovia, wrote a printed relation at the order of the
supreme Council of the Indias, and in accordance with a decree of his
Majesty Don Felipe V, of happy memory, in which his Majesty ordered
that an exact relation be given of the condition of those islands,
in order that he might give notice to his chronicler-general, Don
Tomás Tamayo de Vargas, for the general history of the islands which
he was composing; therein he uses these words, when describing the
condition of Manila at that time:

"But although the decrease of wealth and the general poverty had
afflicted this kingdom, accustomed at other times to great opulence
and affluence in all things, yet that which most grieved the
minds of its inhabitants were the acts of violence, imprisonments,
embargoes, exiles, and other terrifying exhibitions of rigor which
began to be introduced into it after the year forty-four, as will
be told later. All this, being yet in its violent beginnings, kept
not only this city of Manila, where the thunderbolts strike nearer,
but all the islands of its jurisdiction, full of horror and gloom;
and there was no chink that was not closed to consolation, when all
gates were seen opened to misfortune." The author of this relation,
after having described the earthquake which happened in the year 1645,
proceeds as follows:

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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 disposition of that favorite was very ambitious and proud, which
greatly resembled that of the harsh and austere governor. Consequently,
that sympathy [in characteristics] conciliated the will of the governor
to such an extent that he gave the favorite complete control of the
government--giving him more confidence than he ought, in order to
sink farther into his natural retirement. He decreed what this man
ordered to him, and executed only what was directed by the favorite's
influence. Thereupon the latter began with that license to avenge
certain passions and arrogated to himself all the grandeur, fear,
and respect which was due only to the supreme character of the
governor. Master Don José de Poblete, [69] who died as bishop-elect
of Nueva Segovia, wrote a printed relation at the order of the
supreme Council of the Indias, and in accordance with a decree of his
Majesty Don Felipe V, of happy memory, in which his Majesty ordered
that an exact relation be given of the condition of those islands,
in order that he might give notice to his chronicler-general, Don
Tomás Tamayo de Vargas, for the general history of the islands which
he was composing; therein he uses these words, when describing the
condition of Manila at that time:

"But although the decrease of wealth and the general poverty had
afflicted this kingdom, accustomed at other times to great opulence
and affluence in all things, yet that which most grieved the
minds of its inhabitants were the acts of violence, imprisonments,
embargoes, exiles, and other terrifying exhibitions of rigor which
began to be introduced into it after the year forty-four, as will
be told later. All this, being yet in its violent beginnings, kept
not only this city of Manila, where the thunderbolts strike nearer,
but all the islands of its jurisdiction, full of horror and gloom;
and there was no chink that was not closed to consolation, when all
gates were seen opened to misfortune." The author of this relation,
after having described the earthquake which happened in the year 1645,
proceeds as follows:

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

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