The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 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, Volume XLII, 1670-1700 Edited and annotated by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson with historical introduction and additional notes by Edward Gaylord Bourne. CONTENTS OF VOLUME XLII Preface 9 Miscellaneous Documents, 1670-1700 The Camacho ecclesiastical controversy. [Andres Gonzalez, O.P.] and others; 1697-1700 25 The Augustinians in the Philippines, 1670-1694. Casimiro Diaz, O.S.A.; Manila, 1718. [From his Conquistas.] 117 Bibliographical Data 313 ILLUSTRATIONS Chart of Manila Bay; photographic facsimile from Valentyn's Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien (Dordrecht and Amsterdam, 1724), i, p. 152; from copy in library of Wisconsin Historical Society 147 Map of Eastern Islands; photographic facsimile of map in Coronelli's Atlante Veneto (Venetia, 1696), ii, part 2, p. 122; from original copy in Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris 181 View of Strait of Manila; photographic facsimile from Recueil des voiages Comp. Indes orientales (Amsterdam, 1725), iv, p. 512; from copy in library of Wisconsin Historical Society 227 PREFACE The tone of this volume is mainly ecclesiastical, although many sidelights on the civil government and social life are incidentally shown. All the intense bitterness that generally accompanies contests between the regulars and seculars is seen in the Camacho controversy, in which the former recognize that they are fighting for life and existence in the Philippines, and hence spare no effort to gain their ends. As will be seen later this fight between regulars and seculars is quieted only for the moment, to break out with greater force under Archbishop Santa Justa y Rufina; while in our own day, the friar memorial of 1898 (never presented), resorts to the same threat of the regulars to resign their curacies. This struggle, as well as the history of the Augustinian order in the latter part of the seventeenth century (which occupies the greater part of the volume), forms a rich commentary on the life of the times, and one can reconstruct easily the Manila of that period, and recognize the hopes and fears of its various classes.