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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

History

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

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

To order that, when the gobernadorcillos go to see the father, they
be compelled to go into his house with their badges of justice,
under penalty of [the father's] expulsion if they are forbidden to
do so; for, representing as they do the king, the father must treat
them with suitable decorum, and must give them a seat, and under no
pretext be served by them at table.



FIFTEENTH ABUSE

It is an abuse that, when the provincials go to visit, they make
their so magnificent entrances into the villages at the cost of the
Indians. That is, just as if they were bishops, the bells are rung
for them, and they are accompanied by vast crowds from village to
village; and the people go to receive them, and go to expense and
make feasts, which only cooperate toward their absolute domination
over those natives.


Remedy for this evil

That the regulars be subjected, as is decreed, to visitation by the
ordinaries. By so doing, the latter will make use of their right
without there being any necessity for visits by the provincials; and
when the provincials wish to visit them purely as religious, and not
as parish priests, to prohibit the Indians from great public feasts and
expenses, under penalty of expulsion, since there is no other remedy.



SIXTEENTH ABUSE

It is an abuse that after the stipend or sínodo, [102] and large fees
exacted by the father from a poor Indian in regular form, the Indians
generally have to carry the [sick] Indian in a hammock or parilusclas
[103] to the church in order that the father may administer the
sacraments to him. On account of that abuse, and the motion, and
the [effect of the] wind, most of them die; and the man's death is
followed by a looting of his house for the burial fees. This is a
fine way for the fathers to fulfil their duty and exercise charity.


Remedy for this evil

To order, under penalty of expulsion, that they fulfil their duty,
as every good parish priest should, by administering the sacraments
to the poor sick in their own houses; and such grave wrongs against
the Indians and his Majesty will cease, by moderating the tariffs,
with the establishment of the tithes.



SEVENTEENTH ABUSE

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History

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

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

To order that, when the gobernadorcillos go to see the father, they
be compelled to go into his house with their badges of justice,
under penalty of [the father's] expulsion if they are forbidden to
do so; for, representing as they do the king, the father must treat
them with suitable decorum, and must give them a seat, and under no
pretext be served by them at table.



FIFTEENTH ABUSE

It is an abuse that, when the provincials go to visit, they make
their so magnificent entrances into the villages at the cost of the
Indians. That is, just as if they were bishops, the bells are rung
for them, and they are accompanied by vast crowds from village to
village; and the people go to receive them, and go to expense and
make feasts, which only cooperate toward their absolute domination
over those natives.


Remedy for this evil

That the regulars be subjected, as is decreed, to visitation by the
ordinaries. By so doing, the latter will make use of their right
without there being any necessity for visits by the provincials; and
when the provincials wish to visit them purely as religious, and not
as parish priests, to prohibit the Indians from great public feasts and
expenses, under penalty of expulsion, since there is no other remedy.



SIXTEENTH ABUSE

It is an abuse that after the stipend or sínodo, [102] and large fees
exacted by the father from a poor Indian in regular form, the Indians
generally have to carry the [sick] Indian in a hammock or parilusclas
[103] to the church in order that the father may administer the
sacraments to him. On account of that abuse, and the motion, and
the [effect of the] wind, most of them die; and the man's death is
followed by a looting of his house for the burial fees. This is a
fine way for the fathers to fulfil their duty and exercise charity.


Remedy for this evil

To order, under penalty of expulsion, that they fulfil their duty,
as every good parish priest should, by administering the sacraments
to the poor sick in their own houses; and such grave wrongs against
the Indians and his Majesty will cease, by moderating the tariffs,
with the establishment of the tithes.



SEVENTEENTH ABUSE

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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