Japan and the Japanese

CHAPTER XVI.
tALOUSY ON THE PART OF THE DOMINICANS AND FRANCISCANS TOWARDS TUB
JESUITS. THIS JEALOUSY COOPERATES WITH TUB MERCANTILE JEALOUSY
OF THE SPANIARDS AT MANILLA. FRANCISCAN FRIARS ESTABLISH THEM-
SELVES AT MIAKO, OSAKA AND NAGASAKI. EDICTS AGAINST THEM. DE-
POSITION AND DEATH OF THE EMPEROR'S NEPHEW. A. D. 15931595.
IT was not alone against the emperor's hostility and the mercanti
-e envy of the Spanish that the Jesuits had to contend. The
n sid rise and great successes of the Company of Jesus had excited
ao^mst them not only the dread and deadly hatred of the Protestant
(which might naturally enough have been expected), but feel-
ings also of envy and jealousy, scarcely less hostile, and by no
means very scrupulous, on the part of their monastic brethren of
the Oatholic church the Dominicans, and especially the numerous
bodvu* of Franciscans, who had attempted, by various reforms and
mod>weations, to revive and purify that ancient order, so as to make
it eqvial to compete with the Jesuits.
A biief of Pope Gregory XIII., dated in 1585, had forbidden,
under paiu of the greater excommunication, any but Jesuits to proceed
t(/ Japan with the view of exercising any ecclesiastical func-
tion tKvre , and this bull was not less disagreeable to the Domini-
cans f.rid Franciscans, than the Portuguese monopoly of the
Japaneins traue was to the Spanish merchants. At Manilla these
feelings
f dissatisfaction, both mercantile and ecclesiastical, combined
in a common focus, giving rise to the most injurious and
unfounded reports, which were even embodied in print, of extensive
apostasies *iong the Japanese converts, and of the great jeopardy
into which v&tholicism had been brought by the misconduct of the
Jesuits, wt. , at this moment, were out of favor in Spain.
The sanu Faxanda already mentioned, having gone in person to