The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898; Volume 50: 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 50: 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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[52] Spanish, vajo de Campana, literally, "under the bell," i.e. of
the church. In an opinion rendered on April 17, 1765 (Respuestas,
fol. 121, 122), Viana recommends that the Audiencia issue strict
orders to die corregidor of Tondo to proceed to the reduction of
the Indians dispersed through his province into villages--providing
them with suitable dwelling-places from the lands belonging to the
respective villages, or from the vacant crown lands. He enumerates
the advantages (the religious ones being most important of all)
which will follow to the Indians as well as to the government from
this change; and asks that the religious ministers be charged not
to interfere with the secular authorities in carrying out this plan,
but rather use their influence to persuade the Indians to submit to it
quietly. This plan is but the beginning of his scheme to bring about,
as fast as it can be secured, the reduction of all the natives in
all the provinces to obedience to Spanish dominion.
On fol. 132v, 133 are opinions regarding applications which were made
soon afterward by certain persons or communities to be exempted from
the enforced reduction to village life; Viana refuses to entertain
these, insisting that all the natives must be brought "under the
church bell," in order that they may be instructed in religion,
that their souls may be saved. (Cf. fol. 146, 147, 156, 162, 185.)
He also urged (fol. 139), on May 9, 1765, that all unsettled Indians
in the province of Cagayan should be returned to their respective
villages.
[53] See the tariff established by Archbishop Camacho (VOL. XLII,
pp. 58-64.)
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