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Copies of letters from Father Lucas Thomas in China and the Philippines to family members in Jumilla, Spain

出版	1772
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註釋Unsigned, undated copies, possibly from around 1772, of five letters, dated April 13, 1691-July 7, 1709 in Canton, Nangan, and Manila, written by Franciscan missionary Father Lucas Thomas to family members in Jumilla, Spain. The 1691 letter describes Father Thomas' voyage from Spain to China, and his arrival in the great city of Canton. On March 28, 1703, he writes from Nangang concerning his missionary work. In his letters from Manila of July 10 and 12, 1708 and July 7, 1709, Father Thomas explains that after laboring 17 years in China, and having converted more than 2,000 souls and opened five churches, he was forced to leave China because he removed one of the emperor's signs from his church. In order to avoid offending the emperor who, at that time, was savagely persecuting all Christian missionaries, Father Thomas' superior ordered him to return to Manila, where he is now guardian of the Franciscan convent. There are second copies of the letters of July 10 and July 12, 1708 in a different hand. Also included is a copy of a document issued by members of the town council of Jumilla on June 2, 1772, in which they refuse to pay certain taxes and duties from which they feel they are exempt, based on a royal privilege granted to the town, and confirmed by Charles III in a letter dated July 17, 1762 in Madrid. The document was signed by notary Bartolomé Jiménez Notal.