[19] Francisco Minayo was a native of Arevalo. After arriving at the Philippines in 1598, he labored extensively in Cagayan, where his ministry had good results. He was accused of the sin against nature, but after arrest and trial was released. Later he was prior of the Manila convent, and after his three years' term returned to Cagayan, where he died at Lallo-c, August 25, 1613. See _Resena biografica_, part i, pp. 302-303. [20] The following law was passed at Lerma July 23, 1605; and at Madrid December 19, 1618, and is found in _Recopilacion de leyes_, lib. iii, tit. x, ley xiv: "The governor and captain-general of the Filipinas Islands shall take care to reward the soldiers who shall have served us there, and their sons, with the posts and profits that shall fall to his appointment, in accordance with the ordinance, and with full justification, so that they may have some remuneration, observing in everything the laws issued upon this matter." [21] Father Gregorio Lopez was a native of the town of Alcocer, in the bishopric of Cuenca. He studied theology at Alcala de Henares, but took the Jesuit habit in Mexico. He filled in Mexico the chairs of the arts and of theology, and was master of the novitiates. After sixteen years' residence in Mexico he went to the Philippines, where he became a teacher of Christian doctrine, and rector of the seminary at Manila. He was later vice-provincial and then provincial of his order for eight years, being the first provincial. He died at the age of fifty-three, on July 21, 1614. He spent fourteen years in the Philippines. [22] La Concepcion says (_Hist. de Philipinas_, iv, p. 284) that the Dutch unexpectedly encountered at Panay a Spanish force, on its way to the Moluccas, who compelled the invaders to retreat. [23] Francois de Wittert. See _Vol_. XV, pp. 323-328. [24] "The bells of the churches were cast into heavy cannon" (La Concepcion, _Hist. de Philipinas_, iv, p. 286). [25] _Vino de Mandarin_; literally, "mandarin wine."