The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803; 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, commericial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the beginning of the nineteenth century; [Vol. 1, no. 13]

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stop all this, there is no other means but to send all
the said infidel Sangleys out of this city, and give
them only a place to live and dwell in during the
two or three months of April, May, and June, while
the trading and lading for Nueva Espafia is being
carried on; or, if it seems best to his Majesty, to give
license to a few of them, even though they be such
cruel and open enemies of him and of God; and to
give an order that no Indians, men or women, shall
settle near them, but shall remain at a considerable
distance from the settlement or market where these
infidel Sangleys may dwell. His most reverend
Lordship, considering these things from the point of
view of a person who has known the Sangleys so
many years, is acquainted with their language and
customs, has been in that country of China for a
long time, and has noticed that since the said rebellion
and war which the said Sangleys set on foot and
waged against us, some of the natives have made a
settlement on a part of the site where the market
and Parian formerly stood, in which dwelt these infidel Sangleys; and that the new settlement of the
said natives adjoins the new market and Parian which
has been erected for the said infidel Sangleys, in
which they now are, and at present dwell. The said
natives are so near to the said infidel Sangleys, that it
is not more than a rivulet, no wider than a narrow
street, that separates them; and it has a foot-bridge of
timbers, which affords passage from one side to the
other. And even this is not the only evil and danger,
but as the said Parian of the said infidels is midway
between Manila and the said new settlement of the
natives, every time when those Indian men or women
have to come to this city, they must do so by passing