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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 38, 1674-1683: 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 38, 1674-1683: 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

In the city of Manila, August 21, 1681. The president and auditors
of the royal Audiencia and Chancillería of these Filipinas Islands,
while in royal Council, after having examined the petition of father
Fray Juan de Santa María [42] of the Order of Preachers, and rector of
the university of Santo Tomás de Aquino, together with his Majesty's
royal decree which is mentioned therein, in which his Majesty receives
his university under his royal protection and declares it to be under
his royal patronage; and that due execution and fulfilment be given
thereto in this royal Audiencia, together with the petition for the
fiscal in the examination given it: the aforesaid took the decree
in their hands, kissed it, and placed it upon their heads, as a
decree of their king and legitimate sovereign (whom may the divine
Majesty preserve, with increase of new kingdoms and seigniories);
and in obedience thereto declared that they would observe, fulfil,
and execute it, in accordance with, and as his Majesty ordains and
commands, and--leaving a certified copy of it in the record books--that
the original would be returned. Thus they voted and decreed and signed
it with their rubrics before the fiscal.


Before me:

Juan Sánchez







LETTER TO CARLOS II


Sire:

Although the royal Audiencia must give you information of the
controversies that have arisen between the religious of St. Dominic and
the fathers of the Society of Jesus--from which resulted others between
the archbishop of this city and the said fathers, as he attempted
to be the judge in their suits, upon which they implored your royal
aid--I cannot avoid, for my own part, giving you an account thereof,
in order not to fail in my obligation. I must embark in a few days
for Nueva Segovia, from which place the despatch that I would send
may not arrive in time [for the mail to Acapulco], on account of
the storms that may arise and the perils of the way that have been
experienced--especially at this present time, with the deaths of
several passengers, among them a religious of St. John of God. [43]

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