nd others; Manila, July-August 291

Bibliographical Data 315

ILLUSTRATIONS

View of city of Manila; photographic facsimile of engraving in
Valentyn's _Oud en Nieuw Oost Indien_ (Dordrecht and Amsterdam,
1724), i, p. 154; from copy in library of Wisconsin State
Historical Society 33
View of Malacca; photographic facsimile of engraving in _Recueil
des voiages ... de la Compagnie des Indes orientales_ (Amsterdam,
1725); from copy in library of Wisconsin State Historical
Society 45
Map of Molucca Islands; photographic facsimile of map in Bellin's
_Petit atlas maritime_ (Paris, 1764), iii, no. 68; from copy in
library of Wisconsin State Historical Society 229
View of the city of Macao; photographic facsimile of engraving in
_Recueil des voiages Comp. Indes Orient. Pais-Bas_ (Amsterdam,
1725), v, facing p. 208; from copy in the library of Wisconsin
State Historical Society 275

PREFACE

The scope of the present volume is confined to the year 1636, but
enough of interest occurs within that time--thanks to the overflowing
energy of the new governor, Corcuera, who promptly reorganizes all
departments of the government; his controversies with the archbishop
and the friars; and the difficulties and dissensions which affect
the orders themselves. The greater part of this volume is occupied
by Corcuera's report for the first year of his governorship.

The nuns of St. Clare ask (probably in 1635) for certain favors from
the royal treasury; and their agent avails himself of this opportunity
to ask favors for his own order, the Franciscan Recollects. The nuns
themselves write to the king (June 30, 1636), through their abbess,
Ana de Christo, informing him of their progress and growth in the
Philippines, and other matters. They have founded a convent of
their order at Macao; and have built a house at Manila for their
residence. They complain that Governor Corcuera has driven the
Franciscans from the administration of the royal hospital, and coerced
the archbishop--the story of whose ill-treatment by the governor
they briefly repeat, asking the king to grant the prelate redress
therefor. They also ask that their confessor may have a cell at the
hospital, which is near them; and complain that their convent is
much injured by the walls and buildings that are being erected about
it--some of these arbitrarily ordered by the governor, w