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
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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
Demarcation line of Alexander VI; Missions -- Philippines; Philippines -- Discovery and exploration; Philippines -- History -- Sources
On the next day, the fourteenth of the said month
of May, he sent to me notification of another act; and as I refused
to listen to it, for the same reason as before, about two o'clock in
the afternoon he posted on the doors of the churches, and in other
public places, notices in which he declared me, to the great scandal
of all this community, to be publicly excommunicated.
On the said thirteenth day of May, in the morning, immediately
after I had been notified of the second act of the said very
reverend archbishop, I sent my secretary to his house on the river
to notify him of another act of mine, in which I commanded him,
under penalty of major excommunication and another 2,000 pesos,
to withdraw within twenty-four hours the said edicts which on the
twentieth and twenty-first days of March he had ordered posted and
published against my apostolic authority as delegate; and, besides,
to withdraw the two acts in which, with the said penalties of major
excommunication and 8,000 pesos, he had commanded me to depart from
the archdiocese. The said my secretary was told by the servants that
he was not at home; and I, as this seemed to me only an excuse, and not
the truth, went in person to the said house. They told me that he had,
that very morning, gone back to Manila. I came to the city after him,
and remained at his house, waiting for him, until twelve o'clock;
and seeing that he had not come by that time (although he came in
afterward), I went away, leaving a message for him, that he might
expect me in the afternoon. I returned a little before sunset, but did
not find him at home this time. My secretary began to read the said
act in the main room of the archbishop's house; but such disorderly
yelling and clamorous talk was raised by his servants that my secretary
could not make himself heard. I therefore determined to wait for him,
and finally he came--making loud complaints that I was injuring the
respect and observance due to his house, person, and dignity. I replied
that his illustrious Lordship had showed greater incivilities to me;
and that he could and ought to do [what I had done], if I had gone
about all day, avoiding him [huyendo el cuerpo]. In conclusion, we
agreed that my secretary should go again, alone, to notify him of the
act; but, when he went to the house, his illustrious Lordship refused
to give him entrance. As I was now weary of so much artfulness and
craft, unworthy of such a station and dignity, I put aside this act,
and despatched another of like tenor. In this, I summoned him, from
that hour, under penalty of major excommunication, latæ sententiæ,
and its publication, to withdraw within half an hour the said two
acts and two edicts. Notification of this act was made by a Dominican
religious, my notary, in the archbishop's hall, in the presence of
many persons, because the said very reverend archbishop had refused
to listen to it. When the said half-hour had expired, a little while
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