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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

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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 pp. 207, 208 of the same volume is the following abstract:] In
a letter dated June 9, 1700 the Jesuit Luis de Morales wrote from
Manla to Father Antonio Jaramillo, procurator-general at Madrid,
that in the year 1698 the bishop of Troya and Auditor Don Juan de
Sierra died, on the voyage from Manila to Acapulco. The governor not
only showed little favor to the missions in the Marianas Islands,
but in the year 98 he did not send a patache there with succor;
in 99 he sent the vessel late, and it was driven by storms first
to China and then to Manila, with damage to its cargo; and he had
ordered that the ship from Acapulco should not touch at those
islands. The governor had claimed that the conciliar seminary
[12] should be placed next to the college of San Jose, to which
the superior of the Society had answered that there was no room for
it. All the provincials [of the religious orders] had been commanded to
present to the archbishop all their bulls and privileges for granting
dispensation in case of impediments to marriage, for the purpose of
ascertaining whether these were perpetual or temporary; they presented
the documents extra-judicially. It seems that the viceroy of Mexico,
Conde Montezuma, [13] had undertaken that the regulars who were going
to Filipinas should first take an oath of obedience to the bishops,
[when the said regulars should act as curas] in the Indian villages;
in which case, he [i.e., Morales] said, it was preferable to abandon
the missions. The bishop of Cebu, Don Fray Miguel Bayot, [14] had
commanded that no layman should possess a slave girl eleven years old
or upward; and that if such slave were not liberated he declared her
free--in regard to which some persons had complained [to the] alcalde.



Preamble of the decree [15] which it has been commanded to place in
the books of San Pedro Tunasan.


In the village of San Juan de Calamba in the province of Bay, on
the sixteenth day of the month of November in the year one thousand
six hundred and ninety-eight: I, Licentiate Don Francisco Sanctos de
Oliveros, secretary in matters [secretario del Govierno y gracia] of
this archbishopric, and a racionero of the holy metropolitan church of
Manila, in obedience to the decree of his most illustrious Lordship
below mentioned, do certify and attest that his most illustrious
Lordship, having come to make the visitation of this district of
Tabuco, issued the decree of the following tenor:

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