The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898

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Title: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XXI, 1624
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
Author: Various
Editor: Emma Helen Blair
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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898
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,
Volume XXI, 1624

Edited and annotated by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander
Robertson with historical introduction and additional notes by Edward
Gaylord Bourne.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXI

Preface 9 Documents of 1624
Ecclesiastical affairs of the Philippines. Miguel García Serrano, and
others; 1574-1624 19 Conflict between civil and religious authorities in
Manila. [Unsigned and undated; 1624?] 79 Seminary for Japanese
missionaries. Alvaro de Messa y Lugo, and others; Manila, July
23-August 5 84 Extract from letter to Felipe IV. Miguel García Serrano;
Manila, August 15 95 Royal orders regarding the religious. Felipe IV;
Madrid, August-December 98
Early Recollect missions in the Philippines. Andrés de San Nicolas,
Luis de Jesús, and Juan de la Concepción. (Extracts from their
respective works, covering the history of the missions to the year 1624.)
111 Bibliographical Data 319

ILLUSTRATIONS

Title-page of _Historia general de los religiosos descalzos ... del gran
padre ... San Augustin_, by Andres de San Nicolas (Madrid, 1664);
photographic facsimile from copy in library of Edward E. Ayer,
Chicago. 109 Title-pages (the first engraved) to _Historia general de los

religiosos descalzos ... del gran padre ... San Augustin_, by Luis de
Jesús, Augustinian Recollect (Madrid, 1681); photographic facsimiles
from copy in library of Edward E. Ayer, Chicago. 187, 189 Title-page
of volume iv of Historia general de Philipinas, by Juan de la
Concepción, Augustinian Recollect (Manila, 1788); photographic
facsimile from copy in library of Harvard University. 261

PREFACE
This volume, dated 1624, is entirely devoted to religious matters,
ecclesiastical or missionary in their scope. The current documents for
that year are concerned with conflicts between the diocesan authorities
and the religious orders, and between the civil and religious authorities
in Manila; the defeat by the Audiencia of the late Governor Fajardo's
attempt to found a seminary for the training of Japanese missionaries to
be sent to labor in their own country; and efforts by the Spanish
government to check the assumptions of the religious orders. Then
follows a historical account of the early Recollect missions in the
islands, down to the year 1624, compiled from the works of Andrés San
Nicolas, Luis de Jesús, and Juan de la Concepción.
A document entitled "Ecclesiastical affairs in the Philippines" contains
letters, decrees, etc., bearing on this subject, dated from 1574 to 1624.
Instructions to Gomez Perez Dasmariñas (1574) jealously restrict to the
crown or its officials all exercise of the royal patronage; and give
minute details of the course to be pursued by the governor and the
provincials of the religious orders in matters where that right is
involved. This is followed by various official documents issued in the
controversy between Archbishop Serrano and the religious orders
(1622-24) regarding the right claimed for archbishop and bishops to
exercise the same jurisdiction and authority over the religious of the
orders, when charged with the care of souls, as over the secular clergy.
Serrano fortifies his position by various royal decrees and papal bulls.
These documents show that much laxity has prevailed in selecting
missionaries for the Indians, some of these teachers not even knowing
the language of the natives to whom they minister; also that the friars
claim even greater authority over their parishioners than that exercised
by the archbishop and bishops in whose dioceses their missions are
located. On June 20, 1622, the archbishop begins his official visit in the

parish of Dilao (near Manila); and his edict announcing this calls upon
the people of the parish to bring to him