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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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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

Demarcation line of Alexander VI; Missions -- Philippines; Philippines -- Discovery and exploration; Philippines -- History -- Sources

Sources: The first document is translated (partly in full and
    partly in synopsis) from Manifiesta ... del hospital de la Sancta
    Misericordia (Manila, 1728); from a copy in the possession of
    Edward E. Ayer, Chicago. The second, from an original MS. in the
    Museo-Biblioteca de Ultramar, Madrid; part of it (of minor
    importance) is necessarily omitted here. The third (largely in
    synopsis), from Religiosa hospitalidad por los hijos del ...
    S. Ivan de Dios en Philipinas (Granada, 1742); from a copy
    belonging to E. E. Ayer. The fourth, from an original MS. in the
    library of the Academia Española, Madrid. The fifth, from a
    transcript in the Ventura del Arco MSS. (Ayer library), iv, pp.
    297-305. The sixth, from an original MS. (or possibly a
    contemporaneous copy) in possession of E. E. Ayer.

    Translations: The first is made by James Alexander Robertson; the
    remainder, by Emma Helen Blair.

THE SANTA MISERICORDIA OF MANILA

CHAPTER I

Of the beginning of this venerable brotherhood of the city of Manila,
in the year 1594

[The Santa Misericordia of Manila [1] was founded in imitation of the
association of the same name which had been established in the city
of Lisbon in August 1498 with the consent of the vacant see and of
Queen Leonor, wife of Juan II. At the time of the foundation of the
Manila branch, Clement VIII occupied the papal chair, and Luis Perez
Dasmarifias was governor of Manila.]

CHAPTER II

Of the foundation of this venerable brotherhood, and the circumstances
attending it

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