hilippines. Andres de San Nicolas,
Luis de Jesus, and Juan de la Concepcion. (Extracts from their
respective works, covering the history of the missions to the
year 1624.) 111
Bibliographical Data 319

ILLUSTRATIONS

Title-page of _Historia general de los religiosos descalzos
... del gran padre ... San Augustin_, by Andres de San Nicolas
(Madrid, 1664); photographic facsimile from copy in library of
Edward E. Ayer, Chicago. 109
Title-pages (the first engraved) to _Historia general de los
religiosos descalzos ... del gran padre ... San Augustin_, by
Luis de Jesus, Augustinian Recollect (Madrid, 1681); photographic
facsimiles from copy in library of Edward E. Ayer, Chicago.
187, 189
Title-page of volume iv of _Historia general de Philipinas_,
by Juan de la Concepcion, Augustinian Recollect (Manila, 1788);
photographic facsimile from copy in library of Harvard University.
261

PREFACE

This volume, dated 1624, is entirely devoted to religious matters,
ecclesiastical or missionary in their scope. The current documents
for that year are concerned with conflicts between the diocesan
authorities and the religious orders, and between the civil and
religious authorities in Manila; the defeat by the Audiencia of the
late Governor Fajardo's attempt to found a seminary for the training
of Japanese missionaries to be sent to labor in their own country;
and efforts by the Spanish government to check the assumptions of
the religious orders. Then follows a historical account of the early
Recollect missions in the islands, down to the year 1624, compiled
from the works of Andres San Nicolas, Luis de Jesus, and Juan de
la Concepcion.

A document entitled "Ecclesiastical affairs in the Philippines"
contains letters, decrees, etc., bearing on this subject, dated from
1574 to 1624. Instructions to Gomez Perez Dasmarinas (1574) jealously
restrict to the crown or its officials all exercise of the royal
patronage; and give minute details of the course to be pursued by
the governor and the provincials of the religious orders in matters
where that right is involved. This is followed by various official
documents issued in the controversy between Archbishop Serrano and the
religious orders (1622-24) regarding the right claimed for archbishop
and bishops to exercise the same jurisdiction and authority over the
religious of the orders, whe