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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 — John Shaqi

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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

Burials: For burials of children, with prayers read, when the cura goes
to the house for this purpose he shall ask one peso and four tomins;
but if the corpse is carried to the door of the church he shall ask
only one peso. For every burial of children with prayers chanted,
when the cura goes to the house for this purpose he shall ask only
three pesos; and if the corpse be received with prayers chanted at
the door of the church [23]--whether it be an Indian chief, a timagua,
a Sangley, a Japanese, or a free negro, whom his friends desire to be
interred with pomp and escort--and the cura shall go for the corpse to
the house, he shall ask ten pesos; but if he shall receive it at the
door of the church, and prayers be chanted, he shall ask two pesos. For
every burial accompanied with prayers, of an Indian chief, a timagua,
a Sangley, a Japanese, or a free negro, if the cura goes for it to
the house he shall ask one peso and four tomins; and if he receives
it at the door of the church he shall ask one peso. If the deceased
were a slave to Spaniards, the cura shall ask one peso for his fee,
and exactly six reals as a voluntary offering [limosna] for a mass;
but if he were a slave to an Indian, the cura shall ask six reals as
a fee, and four reals for the said offering. We charge it upon the
consciences of the curas to say these masses for the slaves, and thus
acquit our own conscience. For the cope which the cura may wear at
burials he may receive one peso as an offering; but he shall not wear
the cope when the parties do not ask for it. And for the halts [24]
the cura, if he shall have chanted the prayers, shall ask a toston
for each one, if the relatives of the deceased ask for them; but in no
other way shall he obtain these fees. Item, for the mass sung on the
day of the funeral, or funeral honors with responses, the cura may ask
two and one-half pesos; and for chanting the office for the dead, two
pesos and two reals. And for the novenary masses [25] which are said,
with a response in each one, on account of the burial of the deceased,
the cura may receive for each one a peso as offering; and the wax
candles which remain at the end of the novenary for the burial belong
to the cura. For masses provided for by will [missas de testamento],
the cura may receive six reals each, and for those which are ordered
to be said outside of the testamentary provision four reals each,
as offerings. The curas must not consent to accept the candles that
are carried by the persons who accompany the funeral, unless these
persons leave the candles of their own accord, and present them as
an offering; and if they do not thus give them up, the curas shall
not ask anything from them. To each one of those who may assist the
cura at any burial shall be given, if he is in holy orders, six reals
and a candle; if he is not yet ordained, four reals and a candle. For
any peal of the bells [repique] at the burials of children, or the

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