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
[54] "More properly Konkanis; the modern division of North Canara
is part of the territory properly known as the Konkan, and the old
Portuguese called the natives of their territory, both those of Goa
and the North (properly the Konkanis), and also those to the southward,
indiscriminately Canarins." "The Canarins (who are heathen), are of two
sorts, for such as are engaged in trade and other honorable callings
are held in much greater respect than those who engage in fishing,
or practice mechanical crafts." Canarin is the Portuguese form of
the name applied to the natives of the coast, and interior north of
Malabar, as far as and including Goa district; another form of the
name is Karnatic, although it is now applied to the Tamil country on
the eastern side of the Indian peninsula.--See Voyage of Pyrard de
Laval (Hakluyt Society Publications, London, 1887-88) and notes by
Gray and Bell, i, pp. 375-376, ii, pp. 35, 405-406.
[55] Payo Enriquez de Rivera was a native of Sevilla, and son of
the Duke de Alcalá, viceroy of Naples. In 1628 he made profession in
the Augustinian order, and after obtaining his degrees in theology
and philosophy held various important offices in Spain. In 1657 he
was presented to the see of Guatemala, and ten years later to that
of Michoacan; soon afterward he was made archbishop of Mexico,
which office he assumed in June 1668. The viceroyalty of Mexico
becoming vacant by the death of Pedro Nuño Colon, Duke de Veraguas,
a few days after taking possession of that government (December,
1673), he was immediately succeeded, by a royal order anticipating
this event, by Fray Payo de Rivera, who ruled Nueva España for seven
years. Rivera was distinguished by his ability as a ruler, not only
in matters ecclesiastical, but in civil and military affairs--to all
of which he attended with zeal and prudence; and he was beloved by
the people. In July, 1681, he set out for Spain, where he had two
important appointments from the government; but he declined these,
and retired to the convent of Santa María del Risco. He died on April
8, 1684, honored in both life and death by the government and by his
people. (Bancroft's Mexico, iii, pp. 182-187.)
[56] Our Constitutions inhibit such procedure, the applying to
courts outside the order. For us, appeals lie only to the Pontiff,
who, being the common father of the faithful, is not considered an
outsider.--Rev. T. C. Middleton, O.S.A.
[57] i.e., "The party dispossessed must first of all be restored,
any other proceeding being deferred."
[58] Referring to a work by the Jesuit writer Martin Martini (1614-61),
who for many years was a prominent missionary in China. This was his
Novus atlas Sinensis (Vienna, 1655), which formed part 10 of the great
atlas published by Joannis Blaeu at Amsterdam (1656). Diaz hispanicizes
Martini's name, and rather curiously uses the Italian word atlante for
"atlas" instead of the Spanish atlas.
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