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
Marriages: For publishing the banns, the fiscal shall ask for each
one real, and he may not demand anything because the parties do not
rise to their feet at the time when the banns are published. As for
the natives and Morenos [21] who marry without receiving the nuptial
benedictions, and shall come to the church or to the cura's house,
he shall not ask anything from them; but if the cura shall go,
or send, or give permission for the marriage to be solemnized at
their own homes, or in some other place, he shall ask three tostones
for the effort and time spent in going to marry them in a place to
which he is not obliged to go. If the cura shall go to their house,
or to some other place where he is not under obligation to go, in
order to marry any Japanese or Sangley, he shall ask two pesos, and,
if it shall be outside of the parish, he shall ask three pesos.
Nuptial benedictions: He [i.e., the cura] shall ask thirteen reals
from the dowry; [22] but if the parties are poor, they may commute
this for four reals--and [the same] if the woman is a widow and
has no dowry, provided she received the nuptial benedictions from
the Church in the first marriage; but if she did not [thus] receive
them, and have a dowry [she shall pay thirteen]. If several persons
receive the benedictions at one mass, the cura shall ask from those
who are blessed a peso from every one of them; and he shall be under
obligation to say as many masses as there were persons blessed, during
the following days, for their intention, because this [obligation to
say mass] for two, or three, or more married pairs who receive the
benedictions cannot be fulfilled by one mass.
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