The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 37, 1669-1676: Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century
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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 37, 1669-1676: Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century
Demarcation line of Alexander VI; Missions -- Philippines; Philippines -- Discovery and exploration; Philippines -- History -- Sources
religious of Ours, suffered martyrdom among that race in the year 1601,
as is mentioned in the first part, book 3, chapter 22, folio 502. [136]
Having made the preparations for that conquest, the governor appointed
Admiral Pedro Durán de Monforte, a brave and experienced soldier
(of whom repeated mention has been made in this history) the chief
commander of it. He gave him the title of lieutenant captain-general,
and a sufficient number of soldiers, both Spanish and Pampango. The
sargentos-mayor Blas Rodríguez and Don José de Robles Cortés
accompanied him, as did also Captains Gabriel de la Jara, Francisco
de Espinosa, Don Pablo de la Piedra, and Lorenzo Rubio, and Adjutants
Pedro Bravo, Juan de Mercado, and Francisco de la Jara--all leaders and
veteran soldiers. He asked our father provincial, Fray Alonso Quijano,
to appoint evangelical ministers to go to the preaching and teaching of
the villages which would be conquered. The provincial appointed father
Fray Lorenzo de Herrera [137] (former prior of Narbacán in Ilocos),
father Fray Luís de la Fuente, [138] and Fray Gabriel Alvarez, [139]
for that mission. The governor also appointed the commander Don Felipe
de Ugalde as purveyor and paymaster for those troops, giving him four
thousand pesos for that purpose. Don Felipe, however, did not accompany
the army, but went later; and his self-confidence was the cause of
his death. For at the point of the uninhabited district the Zambals
went out against him; and, although he defended himself with great
valor, a valiant Zambal named Tumalang killed him. That man became a
Christian after the event of Pignauén, and was named Don Alonso. He
cut off the purveyor's head, as we have mentioned in another chapter,
[treating] of the year 1656.
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