Title-pages (the first engraved) to _Historia general de los
religiosos descalzos ... del gran padre ... San Augustin_, by
Luis de Jesús, 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 Concepción, 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 Andrés San Nicolas, Luis de Jesús, and Juan de
la Concepción.

A document entitled "Ecclesiastical affairs in the Philippines"