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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 bishop of Troya was very learned, a great theologian and preacher,
but in this matter he erred as a man, for it seemed to him that
the rank and consecration of a bishop rendered him superior on that
occasion to the authority which the cabildo possessed by law in the
vacant see. Among many other manifestoes which were published in
defense of the cabildo, one came out which was very well grounded,
the motto or inscription of which, as being ingenious and apropos,
is worthy of being noted here; it said, Non licet tibi habere uxorem
fratris tui Philippi (Mark vi, v. 18), [120] alluding to the name
of the deceased archbishop, and to their both belonging to the same
order. But the bishop of Troya, notwithstanding he was so learned
and so holy, was very hard to dissuade from his opinion, although on
the present occasion he had every one against him; and although he
withdrew his claims, on account of the urgent representations made
by the acting governor and the other auditors and all the religious
orders, he yielded through constraint and not from conviction. The
cabildo continued its government, with much peace, during the vacancy
of the see.

During this interval the year 1690 came in, and the acting governor
despatched the galleon "Nuestra Señora del Rosario" to Nueva
España, in command of General Don José Madrazo; and in it embarked
Master-of-camp Don Juan de Vargas. In order to do this he had left
his place of banishment at Lingayén, after having suffered great
hardships; and the end of these was to die on this voyage, in the
higher latitude. [This occurred] at a place which people call Doña
María de la Jara, of considerable note on account of the many deaths
which have occurred in that place; for among those who have died
there are four proprietary governors, and some acting governors, and
some auditors, and the above-mentioned bishop of Troya. Accordingly
this place is the dread of those who sail in that navigation, and
especially for persons of so high degree; for the poor seamen go and
come past it with greater security.

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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 bishop of Troya was very learned, a great theologian and preacher,
but in this matter he erred as a man, for it seemed to him that
the rank and consecration of a bishop rendered him superior on that
occasion to the authority which the cabildo possessed by law in the
vacant see. Among many other manifestoes which were published in
defense of the cabildo, one came out which was very well grounded,
the motto or inscription of which, as being ingenious and apropos,
is worthy of being noted here; it said, Non licet tibi habere uxorem
fratris tui Philippi (Mark vi, v. 18), [120] alluding to the name
of the deceased archbishop, and to their both belonging to the same
order. But the bishop of Troya, notwithstanding he was so learned
and so holy, was very hard to dissuade from his opinion, although on
the present occasion he had every one against him; and although he
withdrew his claims, on account of the urgent representations made
by the acting governor and the other auditors and all the religious
orders, he yielded through constraint and not from conviction. The
cabildo continued its government, with much peace, during the vacancy
of the see.

During this interval the year 1690 came in, and the acting governor
despatched the galleon "Nuestra Señora del Rosario" to Nueva
España, in command of General Don José Madrazo; and in it embarked
Master-of-camp Don Juan de Vargas. In order to do this he had left
his place of banishment at Lingayén, after having suffered great
hardships; and the end of these was to die on this voyage, in the
higher latitude. [This occurred] at a place which people call Doña
María de la Jara, of considerable note on account of the many deaths
which have occurred in that place; for among those who have died
there are four proprietary governors, and some acting governors, and
some auditors, and the above-mentioned bishop of Troya. Accordingly
this place is the dread of those who sail in that navigation, and
especially for persons of so high degree; for the poor seamen go and
come past it with greater security.

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

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