FOURTEENTH ABUSE_The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898; Volume 50 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, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century

Consequent upon this notion of theirs is this abuse, that when the

gobernadorcillos of the villages (these are the deputies of the

alcaldes) who exercise the royal jurisdiction, go to see the father,

they have to leave their staffs or rods of justice at the entrance;

for the fathers do not permit even tokens of the royal authority

in their presence. The fathers compel those officials to accompany

them quite to the sacristy, and, when they return to their house,

make them serve them at table, and never allow them to sit down or

to keep their hats on; and they address those officials by tu [i.e.,

"thou"] as they do servants. Let one estimate what they will do with

the other Indians.

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