"Residencia" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... annually by the votes of all the married natives of such and such a village. The governor of Manila confirms the election, and gives the title of governor to the one elected, and orders him to take the residencia of the outgoing governor. [203] This governor, in addition to the vilangos and scrivener (before whom he makes his acts in writing, in the language of the natives of that province), [204] holds also the chiefs—lords of barangays, and those ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume XVI, 1609 • H.E. Blair
... margin: "This matter is reserved for the inspection or residencia of the marquis of Cerralbo. ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XXIV, 1630-34 • Various
... distress among some of his parishioners. This was a family—but you are ignorant of Spain, and even the names of our grandees are hardly known to you; suffice it, then, that they were once great people, and are now fallen to the brink of destitution. Nothing now belongs to them but the residencia, and certain leagues of desert mountain, in the greater part of which not even a goat could support life. But the house is a fine old place, and stands at a great height among the hills, and most salubriously; and I had no sooner heard my friend's tale, ...
— The Merry Men - and Other Tales and Fables • Robert Louis Stevenson |
