ch it is advisable to apply a remedy;
and inasmuch as the harsh treatment practiced by the said religious
toward their parishioners has appeared excessive, and not in harmony
with what they should do, since their purpose in going to the said
islands is to instruct and teach the natives in the articles of
our holy faith, and with all love and mildness, because they are,
as is a fact, people without reason and so newly converted (for
which reason it is so expensive to my royal revenues, from which
everything necessary is given): I request and charge you to give
what order is advisable so that the aforesaid evils be remedied,
as may be most necessary to the religion that they profess. What
remedy you shall furnish, you shall send to the said my Council,
with all haste, so that it may be remitted to the said islands;
for if that be not done with the promptness required by the case,
the relief that seems most effective will [not] be applied. Madrid,
November twenty-seven, one thousand six hundred and twenty-four.

_I The King_

Countersigned by Joan Ruiz de Contreras, and signed by the Council.

[_Endorsed:_ "To the father-general of the Order of St. Dominic,
directing him to remedy the excesses, committed on the Indians by
punishing them, by the religious of that order, who have missions
in Philipinas."]

EARLY RECOLLECT MISSIONS IN THE PHILIPPINES

_Extracts from the Following Works, Covering the History of the
Missions to 1624:_

_Historia general de los religiosos descalzos del orden de ... San
Avgvstin_. Fray Andres de San Nicolas; Madrid, 1664. (pp. 396-510.)
_Historia general de los religiosos descalzos del orden
... S. Augustin_. Fray Lvis de Iesvs; Madrid, 1681. (pp. 1-61.)
_Historia general de Philipinas_. Fray Juan de la Concepcion;
Manila, 1788. (Tomo iv, pp. 189-265; v, pp. 32-100.)

_Sources_: The first and second of these are obtained from copies
belonging to Edward E. Ayer, Chicago; the third, from a copy in the
possession of the Editors.

_Translations_: The matter herein presented is translated and
synopsized by James A. Robertson.

EARLY RECOLLECT MISSIONS IN THE PHILIPPINES

GENERAL HISTORY OF THE DISCALCED AUGUSTINIAN FATHERS, BY FRAY ANDRES
DE SAN NICOLAS [24]

Decade II

Chapter V

_Now the second provincial Chapter is held. The mission to the
Philippinas Islands is effectively discussed. The college of Zaragoca
and the convent of P