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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898

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You shall say of each one whatever offers; and here the necessary secrecy will be maintained.

Although you have been informed at length regarding this matter, inasmuch as it is an essential point you are again charged with it."] 38th.

On finishing the present despatch, I shall do what your Majesty orders me to do, together with the archbishop, both of us summoning the provincials of the orders who reside here, and charging them with the reformation of the matters contained in the section that treats of this.
He who made such a relation to your Majesty might have made it more complete by saying what is so true, that there are in these orders (in which also there are those of every sort, as in all countries), religious so virtuous and exemplary that if laymen did not divert and engage them in their affairs, they would, I believe, work miracles.

But they are so importuned that many cannot stay in their cells; nor do those who go to their cells to disturb them leave them until they negotiate with them what they desire.

It might easily happen that any one who had received an unmerited favor from their hand, gave pay for it by such a relation, which is the one practiced here.


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