The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 45, 1736

Volume 45 — LETTER FROM THE ECCLESIASTICAL CABILDO TO FELIPE III

Reading edition

Sire:

Don Juan de Bivero, dean of Manila. Archdeacon Arellano Santiago de Castro, chanter of Manila. Juan de Paz, canon. Diego de Leon, canon. Juan Galindo de Mesas Cristoval Ramirez de Cartagena Paulo Ruiz de Talavera Crisanto de Tamayo Lorenço Martinez Peñas Francisco de Carrança

[On envelope: “Manila, to his Majesty. 1601. The ecclesiastical cabildo. July 12.”]

[Endorsed: “Read, July 2. Have it filed with the other papers.”]

Notes in this chapter

Note 1 · This letter appears to have been directed against the Jesuits, who founded their college of San José in 1601, through the efforts of Diego G Note 2 · Considering that your Majesty’s great desire has always shown that these Filipinas Islands should increase in all things, and they may witho