[81] _Entrada de la seraphica Religion de nuestro P. S. Francisco en las Islas Philipinas_, MS. of 1649, first published in Retana, _Archivo_, I, no. III, translated in B. & R., XXXV, p. 311. [82] Medina, p. 15, quoting from Martinez whom we are unable to trace. [83] Huerta, pp. 492-3. Oliver died in 1599. San Antonio, II, p. 531, says that Plasencia was the first to write a catechism (called in Tagalog "Tocsohan"), and Oliver was the first to translate the explanation of the Doctrina. Oliver's works are noted by Leon Pinelo, _op. cit._, 1737-38, II, col. 730, and Barrantes, _op. cit._, p. 187. [84] Sebastian de Totanes, _Arte de la Lengua Tagala_, Manila, 1850, p. v, (first edition printed in 1745) says of Oliver that "up to the present day our province reveres him as the first master of this idiom." [85] See note 42. [86] Huerta, p. 517. Nothing is known of Diego de la Asuncion except that he wrote five works in Tagalog including an _Arte_ and _Diccionario_. Huerta was unable to find any record of him in the mission lists, the capitularies or the death records, but that he was in the Philippines before 1649 we can be sure of from the notice of him in the manuscript of that date. [87] Huerta, p. 495. Montes y Escamilla came to the islands in 1583 and remained there until his death in 1610. Five works in Tagalog are attributed to him, an _Arte_, _Diccionario_, _Confesionario_, _Devocional tagalog_, and a _Guia de Pecadores_. The _Devocional_ is listed by Medina, no. 16, p. 12. [88] Pablo Rojo, _Fr. Juan de Plasencia_, _Escritor_, Appendix 3 of Santa Ines, II, p. 590. An early reference by Fernandez, _Historia Eclesiastica_, p. 300, speaking of the Franciscan missionary successes among the natives, says, "They learned the Doctrina Christiana which the priests translated into Tagalog." [89] Rojo, in Santa Ines, II, pp. 590-1, says that the Doctrina then being used among the Tagalogs was the same as that written by Plasencia except for modernization in accordance with the changes which had taken place in the language since his time. [90] Medina, no. 15, p. 11. [91] Chirino, p. 14. [92] Colin, II, p. 325. [93] Chirino, p. 27. [94] Chirino, chaps. XV-XVII, pp. 34-41.