Volume 36 — Jesuit Protest against the Dominican University
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Memorial of Miguel Solana, Jesuit, petitioning the king not to allow the Dominican friars to carry out their purpose of founding a university in Manila.
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Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · Mateo Bermudez was one of the Dominican mission that arrived in the islands in 1626. He ministered in Formosa, and in the Parián of Manila; Note 2 · In the MS. this latter clause is separated from the preceding one, but obviously refers to it. The argument of Solana is: The Dominican schoNote 3 · Many passages in this document are very involved and elliptical, and in some places the sense is not at all clear. The translation is necessNote 4 · Miguel Solana of the Society of Jesus, and procurator-general of the province of the Philippine Islands, makes the following declaration, naNote 5 · But without calling in question the matter which is already settled, or his other representations which he insists on and firmly maintains—w