The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 41 of 55, 1691-1700 / Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century.

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[7] A sidenote of the original refers to San Antonio, i, book i, chapter lv, folio 220, and chapter lvii, folio 224.

[8] So called perhaps from the long robe probably worn by women who were allowed to take partial vows.

[9] A sidenote at this point refers to Father Nieremberg’s Oculta y curiosa philosophia, last treatise, folio 431. This book is rightly named Curiosa y oculta filosofia, and was published in two parts in Madrid, 1643. Juan Eusebio Nieremberg was born in Madrid either in 1590 or 1595. His father was a Tyrolese, and his mother a Bavarian. Educated at the university at Salamanca, he took the Jesuit habit in the same city in 1614. He became known for his learning and ability and for fourteen years filled the chair of natural history at the royal school at Madrid, and for three years after that lectured on the scriptures. At the same time he was held in high esteem as a confessor, and was solicited by many prominent people as such. In 1642, he gave up teaching entirely because of an attack of paralysis. His death occurred at Madrid, April 7, 1658. He was the author of many works in Spanish and Latin, some of which have been translated into French and Arabic, and other languages. See Rose’s New General Biographical Dictionary, and Hoefer’s Nouvelle Biographie générale.

[10] Sidenotes at this point in the original refer as follows: “Volume i of this History [i.e., the volume by Andrés de San Nicolas, for extract from which see our Vol. XXI], decade ii, chapter ix, folio 452; volume iii [i.e., the volume by Diego de Santa Theresa, from which appear extracts in Vol. XXXVI, pp. 113–188], marginal numbers, 233, 257 et seq., 530 et seq., 540, 596, and 649.”

[11] There is a a sidenote reference here in the original to Santa Cruz’s Historia, part ii, book i, chapter xxiii.

[12] A sidenote of the original refers here to Santa Theresa’s Historia, marginal numbers 649 and 651.

[13] See Vol. XL, p. 179, note 78.

[14] A sidenote here refers to Santa Theresa’s Historia, no. 259 ff.

[15] The references in the margin at this point are to San Andrés’s Historia, folios 451, 452; Luis de Jesús’s Historia, folios 39, 40, 44, 45, 70, 282, 284–295, and 353; Santa Theresa’s Historia, marginal numbers 250 ff., 366 ff., 519, 522, 534, 599, 603, 615–629, 646 ff., and 740 ff.

[16] Subhastación: literally, sale of goods at public auction.