The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898; Volume 47, 1728-1759: 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 47, 1728-1759: 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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cinnamon what they added in ingredients that were not always harmless
for the parishioner's health. In order that the importance of this
adulteration may be estimated, it is sufficient to cite some of the
additions most used, as wheat flour, rice flour; ground lentils, peas,
beans, and maize; starch, potato starch, and dextrine; olive oil,
sweet almond oil, yolk of egg, tallow of veal and mutton; storax,
chestnut [flour], gum tragacanth; cinnabar, red oxide of mercury,
red lead, carbonate of lime, etc." The manufacture of chocolate has
been conducted almost entirely by machinery during the past century,
and has accordingly thrown out the majority of the artisans who made it
by hand. (José del Carmenal, cited in Gräfenberg's Spanisches Lesebuch,
Frankfurt, 1899, pp. 7-11.)
[75] At the end of the atlas volume in Raynal's Établissemens et
commerce des Européens is a tabular "Enumeration of the population of
Spain, prepared in 1768 by order of his Lordship Conde de Aranda,
president of the Council of Castilla." The population is given
separately for each of the eight archbishoprics (which contain
48 bishoprics, 2 of them "exempt"). The lay population was thus
classed: married persons, 1,724,567 men and 1,714,505 women; unmarried
(presumably including children), 2,809,069 boys and 2,911,858 girls;
total, 9,159,999. Add the number of the clergy (both regular and
secular), which was 147,805, and the entire population numbered
9,307,804. Two curious discrepancies may be noted: the number of
married men is greater than that of the married women by 10,062, and
the girls exceed the boys by 102,789 (this latter an excess of about
3 2/3 per cent). The only region in which the number of married men
is practically the same as that of married women is the archdiocese of
Valencia, and the only one where the same thing is true of the boys and
girls is the archdiocese of Zaragoza. The greatest discrepancy in the
numbers of both these classes is found in the archdiocese of Burgos,
where there were 197,064 married men, and only 185,997 married women;
and it had 330,428 girls and only 310,545 boys. Highly significant
is the enumeration of the privileged classes, of whom in the total
population there were 846,657, thus classified: those enjoying
royal privileges, 89,393; in the department of finances, 27,577;
in that of the Crusade, 4,248; in that of the Inquisition, 2,645;
in the nobility, 722,794. It is to be observed that three-fourths
of all the privileged class are found in the archdiocese of Burgos
and the two exempt bishoprics--in the former, 324,661; in the latter,
306,378. Not less interesting are the statistics of the ecclesiastical
estate. In the 16,427 cities and villages were 18,106 parishes,
which were served by 15,641 curas. There were 2,004 monasteries,
containing 55,453 religious; and 1,026 convents with 26,465 nuns. All
these religious orders employed also 8,552 persons as procurators
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