[25] Accounts of Corcuera's residencia may be found in Domingo F. de Navarrete's Tratados historicos (Madrid, 1676), trat. 6, ch. 4; Murillo Velarde's Hist. de Philipinas, fol. 136 b-138; la Concepción's Hist. de Philipinas, vi, pp. 188-195; Ferrando's Hist. de los PP. Dominicos, ii, pp. 450-453; and Montero y Vidal's Hist. de Filipinas, i, pp. 265-267.
[26] Referring to the institution founded by Corcuera, styled San Felipe, of which more detailed information will be given in a subsequent volume.
[27] "In the acts of the said congregation [of 1650, held at Nueva Segovia] is also mentioned a decree by the most reverend Marinis, which expressly annulled the mandate of the most reverend Turco, providing that the vicariates which possess votes in the chapter-sessions shall last only two years. This law of the province has suffered some modifications, according to the circumstances of the times. Since the intermediate sessions or congregations were suppressed, the office of vicar lasts four years--or, more correctly, the vicar is removable at the pleasure of the superior of the order, because the reason of his irremovability, which was the vote in the chapter, no longer exists. From this modification, however, must be excepted the rector of the college of Santo Tomás and the vicar of Cavite, who still enjoy that right." (Ferrando's Hist. de los PP. Dominicos, ii, p. 608.)
[28] These generals of the Dominican order were, respectively. Fray Tomás Turco and Fray Juan Bautista de Marinis.
[29] Alluding to Carlos Clemente Gant, who had been provincial during 1637-41.
[30] A town in Nicaragua, on the Pacific coast.
[31] Twenty-seven, according to the list in Reseña biográfica.
[32] The term "jubilee" is adopted by the Catholic church from the Jewish, and proclaims from time to time a "year of remission" from the penal consequences of sin--a plenary indulgence granted to those who repent and perform certain pious works. (See Addis and Arnold's Catholic Dictionary, p. 488.)
[33] See sketches of the lives of all these friars in Reseña biográfica, i, pp. 455-478.
[34] i.e., "Let each one abound in his own understanding."
[35] Thus in the text; but the list counts but thirty-six names, including the four who remained in Mexico. See biographical sketches of all in Reseña biográfica, ii, pp. 1-17.