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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 new fiscal of his Majesty, Don Jerónimo Barredo y Valdés, a young
man of suitable age [for this lady?] married the widow of Auditor
Don Cristóbal Grimaldos, Doña María Manuela Carrillo y Barrientos--a
woman in whom, although great was her beauty, virtue was still greater,
and she furnished an excellent example in the time of her widowhood,
suffering continually the siege and attacks made against her chastity
by influential persons. But God recompensed her by giving her a
numerous offspring and long life, both in these islands and in the
city of Méjico--from which place no news has come of her death, but
we have heard that she has remained the widow of Don Jerónimo Barredo,
who was many years the senior auditor of this royal Audiencia.

The investigating judge, Don Francisco Campos de Valdivia, brought [an
order for] the liberation of the Marqués de Villasierra, Don Fernando
de Valuenzuela, because the term of ten years since his removal from
the monastery of the Escorial was now completed. The judge went in
person to Cavite, to notify him of the order and set him at liberty,
as he did. The marqués left the port of Cavite and came to Manila, but
he took up his residence in a country-house which our Manila convent
possesses, on a sugar-plantation called Pasay. This house is on the
sea-shore, in a very convenient location for trips back and forth
from Manila; and one can easily enjoy visits there, as it is only
one legua distant from the city. Here the marqués lived during all
the time while he had to wait and make preparations for his journey,
in order to sail in the first galleon which should return to Nueva
España; for such was the command given to him, until his Majesty
should decide whether or not he should go to España.

He embarked in this year of 1689 and arrived at Méjico, where he found
as viceroy the Conde de Galves, [117] who, as the son of the Duke de
Infantado, in whose service Don Fernando de Valuenzuela had begun his
career of fortune, received him very hospitably, as lords are wont
to receive persons who have a claim upon such considerations. It
seems as if the patient endurance of this gentleman had conquered
the influences of fortune, so various and inconstant in his rise and
fall; for it was said with good ground that he would be viceroy of
Nueva España; but his death closed the term of his life, which was
an astonishing one, and an example for the study of admonitions. His
death was occasioned by the kick of a horse, and on the ninth day a
fever attacked him from which he died in a few days. He had previously
fulfilled all the obligations of a Christian, and ordered that his
body be deposited in the hospice of this province, outside the walls
of Méjico, where it remained until the marquesa his wife sent orders
to convey it for burial to the city of Talavera. [Diaz here inserts
a Latin epitaph on this cavalier, written by some person in Filipinas.]

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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 new fiscal of his Majesty, Don Jerónimo Barredo y Valdés, a young
man of suitable age [for this lady?] married the widow of Auditor
Don Cristóbal Grimaldos, Doña María Manuela Carrillo y Barrientos--a
woman in whom, although great was her beauty, virtue was still greater,
and she furnished an excellent example in the time of her widowhood,
suffering continually the siege and attacks made against her chastity
by influential persons. But God recompensed her by giving her a
numerous offspring and long life, both in these islands and in the
city of Méjico--from which place no news has come of her death, but
we have heard that she has remained the widow of Don Jerónimo Barredo,
who was many years the senior auditor of this royal Audiencia.

The investigating judge, Don Francisco Campos de Valdivia, brought [an
order for] the liberation of the Marqués de Villasierra, Don Fernando
de Valuenzuela, because the term of ten years since his removal from
the monastery of the Escorial was now completed. The judge went in
person to Cavite, to notify him of the order and set him at liberty,
as he did. The marqués left the port of Cavite and came to Manila, but
he took up his residence in a country-house which our Manila convent
possesses, on a sugar-plantation called Pasay. This house is on the
sea-shore, in a very convenient location for trips back and forth
from Manila; and one can easily enjoy visits there, as it is only
one legua distant from the city. Here the marqués lived during all
the time while he had to wait and make preparations for his journey,
in order to sail in the first galleon which should return to Nueva
España; for such was the command given to him, until his Majesty
should decide whether or not he should go to España.

He embarked in this year of 1689 and arrived at Méjico, where he found
as viceroy the Conde de Galves, [117] who, as the son of the Duke de
Infantado, in whose service Don Fernando de Valuenzuela had begun his
career of fortune, received him very hospitably, as lords are wont
to receive persons who have a claim upon such considerations. It
seems as if the patient endurance of this gentleman had conquered
the influences of fortune, so various and inconstant in his rise and
fall; for it was said with good ground that he would be viceroy of
Nueva España; but his death closed the term of his life, which was
an astonishing one, and an example for the study of admonitions. His
death was occasioned by the kick of a horse, and on the ninth day a
fever attacked him from which he died in a few days. He had previously
fulfilled all the obligations of a Christian, and ordered that his
body be deposited in the hospice of this province, outside the walls
of Méjico, where it remained until the marquesa his wife sent orders
to convey it for burial to the city of Talavera. [Diaz here inserts
a Latin epitaph on this cavalier, written by some person in Filipinas.]

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

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