The Travels and Controversies of Friar Domingo Navarrete, 1616-1686 by J.S. Cummins

Author:J.S. Cummins [Cummins, J.S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Modern, 17th Century, Expeditions & Discoveries
ISBN: 9781409424932
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2010-10-15T01:29:14+00:00

Notes

1 G. Génébrard, Archbishop of Aix, Chronographiae Libri Quattuor (Lugduni, 1609), 705.

2 But friar Thomas Gage claimed to have been urged to go on the missions by a friar who represented the Philippines to him as Eden, ‘where was all joy without tears, mirth without sadness, laughing without sorrow, comfort without grief, plenty without want’ (Gage, 8).

3 For the nominal roll of missionaries submitted to the King for approval and the grant of free travel, see documentation in AGI, Filipinas 81; Indiferente general 2873; Filipinas 330 A; Contratación 5539. By economies and begging, the party were able to support the four volunteers above the number paid for by the King. For full details of the cost of shipping Religious to the Indies see the report of 9 November 1639, AGI, Filipinas 1051.

1 Another contemporary traveller described this as ‘a bit of earthly paradise’ (A. Vázquez de Espinosa, A Compendium and Description of the West Indies, ed. C. U. Clark (Washington, 1942), 131).

1 Palafox and the friars had much in common for he was passionately interested in China and suspicious of the Jesuits’ methods there; he helped the friars by writing a long letter to Philip IV of Spain on their behalf (letter of 15 August 1647, AGI, Filipinas 86) and showed them a defence of the Jesuit position written by Father Diego Morales and given to Palafox by Father Magino Sola. See J. S. Cummins, ‘Palafox and China’, Revista de Historia de America No. 52 (1961), 406.

2 For friar Oquendo, see Quétif and Échard, 11, 568–9, and Santa Cruz, 248–9; but cf. Governor Corcuera’s estimate of him as a ‘restless, impudent friar and extravagant in his speech’ (Blair, XXVI, 128).

3 On the Spanish passion for chocolate drinking and for the significance of Navarrete’s remark see H. de la Costa, The Jesuits in the Philippines, 1581–1768 (Cambridge, Mass., 1961), 249, 356, 511–12; also Gage, 151–9; Mortier, VI, 366; V. de Salazar, Historia de la Provincia de el Smo, Rosario de Philipinas (Manila, 1742), 379; and José de Acosta’s lament that they would ‘die for their wretched chocolate’ (Historia natural y moral de las Indias (Madrid, 1954), 116).

1 For some idea of the friars’ day in America, see ‘Dia y Vida del Capuchino Missionero’, Maggs Brothers Catalogue No. 442, Bibliotheca Americana et Philippina (London, 1923), pt. III, 125.

2 For the vicissitudes of the Galleon during this period, see Schurz, 355–6.

3 Probably Diego de Zarate, Treasurer of New Spain, died 15 December 1650 (G. M. de Guijo, ‘Diary’ in Documentos para la historia de Méjico, 1 (1853), 159).

4 For the Carmelite ‘wilderness’, see Gemelli-Careri, IV, 525, 540–2; and Vázquez de Espinosa, 159. Gage (88–9) has a somewhat petulant description of it.

5 Navarrete’s critics might have made capital of his regard for López, who was later suspected of Quietist tendencies; see Pablo González Casanova, ‘El Pecado de amar a Dios en el siglo xviii’, Historia Mexicana, II (1952), 529–48. López was still theologically respectable at this time and Philip IV urged his beatification (AGN, R.

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