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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 42, 1670-1700: 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 42, 1670-1700: 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 governor, Don Gabriel de Curucelaegui, determined to restore
the archbishop to Manila, sent to Lingayén as his agent for
accomplishing this, General Don Tomás de Endaya; and the city of
Manila sent a regidor, Sargento-mayor Don Gonzalo de Samaniego, and
some citizens. With them went the past provincial of Santo Domingo,
Fray Baltasar de Santa Cruz, commissary of the Holy Office, and many
others, with an escort of soldiers. On November 16 the archbishop
came back from his exile, to the general rejoicing of the entire city,
which had been so long a time afflicted by the absence of its pastor
and prelate. The artillery was fired [as a salute], from the castle,
and from the wall adjoining the gate of Santo Domingo, by which the
archbishop made his entrance; and after he had visited the church he
went to the palace, to see his liberator, the Catholic governor--who
said that, in case his proceeding should displease his Majesty and
the royal and supreme Council of the Indias, he would regard it as a
great glory to have a punishment, even were it capital, imposed upon
him. This may be believed of him, as he was a man of a great soul,
although small in body; Major in exiguo regnavit corpore virtus. [102]
What we saw in him was, that he was one of the best governors that
these islands have had--affable, pious, magnanimous, and in the highest
degree disinterested, and with this very liberal. And therefore he
was wont to say that he had come to Filipinas to be poor, where other
governors had come to be rich. This he said with truth, because in
España and the Indias he had possessed much wealth, gained in the
many voyages that he had made in command of the fleet and galleons
to Perú and Nueva España, which had been consumed by his ostentation
and liberality. We may therefore regard it as a punishment of God
upon these islands that He removed him from us in the fifth year of
his term of government--in which time he was severe with those only
to whom he could not in justice be kind--unless it were that divine
justice chose him for the punishment of those who had deserved it
before his time. [103]

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History

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 42, 1670-1700: 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 governor, Don Gabriel de Curucelaegui, determined to restore
the archbishop to Manila, sent to Lingayén as his agent for
accomplishing this, General Don Tomás de Endaya; and the city of
Manila sent a regidor, Sargento-mayor Don Gonzalo de Samaniego, and
some citizens. With them went the past provincial of Santo Domingo,
Fray Baltasar de Santa Cruz, commissary of the Holy Office, and many
others, with an escort of soldiers. On November 16 the archbishop
came back from his exile, to the general rejoicing of the entire city,
which had been so long a time afflicted by the absence of its pastor
and prelate. The artillery was fired [as a salute], from the castle,
and from the wall adjoining the gate of Santo Domingo, by which the
archbishop made his entrance; and after he had visited the church he
went to the palace, to see his liberator, the Catholic governor--who
said that, in case his proceeding should displease his Majesty and
the royal and supreme Council of the Indias, he would regard it as a
great glory to have a punishment, even were it capital, imposed upon
him. This may be believed of him, as he was a man of a great soul,
although small in body; Major in exiguo regnavit corpore virtus. [102]
What we saw in him was, that he was one of the best governors that
these islands have had--affable, pious, magnanimous, and in the highest
degree disinterested, and with this very liberal. And therefore he
was wont to say that he had come to Filipinas to be poor, where other
governors had come to be rich. This he said with truth, because in
España and the Indias he had possessed much wealth, gained in the
many voyages that he had made in command of the fleet and galleons
to Perú and Nueva España, which had been consumed by his ostentation
and liberality. We may therefore regard it as a punishment of God
upon these islands that He removed him from us in the fifth year of
his term of government--in which time he was severe with those only
to whom he could not in justice be kind--unless it were that divine
justice chose him for the punishment of those who had deserved it
before his time. [103]

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

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