Note 74 — Chapter XI · THE AUDIENCIA AND THE CHURCH: THE ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION

The friar lands litigation began in 1687 and continued until 1751. The efforts of the government met with considerable opposition. The oidores who were charged with the inspection of the titles to these lands frequently abandoned their commissions and recommended that the friars be left alone. However, in the year last mentioned, the opposition of the Franciscans, the last of the resisting orders, was overcome (Correspondence regarding friar lands exists in A. I., 68–4–12 and 68–6–26). See also the Camacho Controversy, Blair and Robertson, XLII, 25–116; Montero y Vidal, Historia general, I, 385, et seq.; Concepción, Historia general, VIII, 192–206; Philippine Census, I, 342–343; Sobre una reseña histórica by the Dominicans of Manila, 65–89.