P. 211, paragraph 2: The laws of the Indias ordained—e.g., lib. vi, tít. i, ley xviii (1550); lib. i, tít. xiii, ley v (1634)—that there should be schools in which Spanish was to be taught, for the sake of having a suitable language in which to teach the Christian faith.
P. 218, end of paragraph 1: Viana (Respuestas, fol. 102v) recommends that certain criminals be sent to serve at Zamboanga, some for life and others for specified terms. Forrest mentions the practice of sending convicts from Manila to Zamboanga, as they were sent from England to Botany Bay. The secretary mentioned by Le Gentil was Cosio, who himself was afterward banished to Africa for his illegal acts under Raon.
P. 257, line 6: The word “impost” is incorrect here; the English equivalent is most nearly approached by rendering this phrase [Spanish, derecho de elecciones de gobernadorcillo], “the [government] right in elections.” J. A. LeRoy says of this, in a private letter: “It apparently refers to the right of the superior government—generally exercised in each province by the alcalde-mayor or provincial governor—of selecting the gobernadorcillo of each pueblo from a list of three [lerna], this list being proposed to him by the notables [principales] at the annual election. It is altogether probable that the man chosen sometimes had to pay that official, and that Mas is here reporting this as another of the abuses which, under the early Spanish régime, the friars used to charge against the alcaldes-mayor, in that sense, being a ‘robbery’ of the natives.”
P. 266, line 2: For “271–275” read “271–273.”
P. 321, line 3: The statements of this writer would make it appear that the friars developed the resources of Negros; but that is not the fact. The old régime described by Mas and Jagor failed to develop those resources; and the modern development of Negros (which dragged the friars reluctantly after it) was accomplished through foreign commerce and foreign traders, a part of the general development of the Philippines as a whole. This very document shows how, when it was seen to be beginning, through Spanish and Spanish half-caste planters, to whose aid British importers of machinery of the modern sort soon after came, the friars stepped in to claim an island which since the Spanish discovery they had sadly neglected, and to wrest its growing curacies from native priests. This friar’s claims (pp. 319–322) are all the more audacious in view of the proximity to his own time of the development, through foreign agencies, which he claims as due to his order. There are other parts of this same Recollect chronicle which show how the modern political bitterness of spirit had crept into the accounts of Philippine history emanating from the religious orders.—James A. LeRoy (in a private letter).
P. 349, line 3: The volume-number should be “i,” not “ii.” The same correction should be made on p. 370, last line.
P. 368, line 6: For “brothers” read “sisters.”
VOLUME XXIX
P. 104, line 8 from end: After “taken.” add “[Madrid, March 15, 1638.]”