The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 38, 1674-1683: 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 38, 1674-1683: 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
General Francisco de Esteybar arrived with all his army at the village
of Bacarra, but Lorenzo Arqueros had it already reduced to quiet, so
that the general had nothing to do, except to order that a fort be
built in Bacarra and garrisoned with soldiers, so as to secure the
province from other disturbances. General Sebastián Rayo Doria gave
orders for the execution of the commission which he bore, by agreement
of the royal Audiencia, to administer justice to those who were most
guilty; his military judge was Licentiate Don Juan de Rosales, and
the notary was Nicolás de Herrera, who began their official duties,
bringing legal proceedings [against the rebels]. The penalties of
justice were inflicted as follows: In Vigán, Don Pedro Gumapos was
shot through the back, and afterward the hand with which he took
the staff from the bishop was cut off; and Don Cristóbal Ambagán,
Don Pedro Almazán, Don Tomás Boaya, [96] Don Pedro de la Peña, and
others, to the number of sixteen, were hanged. In Binalatongan was
erected a square gallows, as in Vigán, and the following were hanged:
Don Melchor de Vera, Don Francisco de Pacadua, Don Francisco Along,
and Don Jacinto Macasiag; a Sangley mestizo, named Domingo Isón,
although he said that he died innocent; a man of half-Malabar blood,
named Lorenzo; and others, to the number of fourteen. It is quite
remarkable that, when the sacristans were in the [church] tower with
orders from the father ministers to toll the bells as soon as each of
those who were hanged was dead, when it came to the turn of Domingo
Isón they rang a peal instead of tolling, without having had an order
for it; in this it seems as if the divine Majesty chose to demonstrate
his innocence, as it was afterward ascertained. They promptly shot
Don Andrés Malóng, placed in the middle, seated on a stone; and this
was the end of his unhappy reign in Pangasinán. Afterward, in Mexico,
punishment was inflicted on Don Francisco and Don Cristóbal Mañago,
who were shot; and some were hanged--Don Juan Palasigui, Don Marcos
Marcasián, Sargento-mayor Chombillo, Supil and Baluyot of Guagua,
the amanuensis, and many others. José Celis, the lawyer, was carried
to Manila, where he was hanged. After these executions, Licentiate
Manuel Suárez de Olivera, the senior advocate of the royal Audiencia,
printed a treatise against Don Juan de Rosales, in which he condemned
the excessive rigor of these punishments. This was answered by Don
Juan de Rosales with another pamphlet--very learned, which also was
printed--whose theme was Feci judicium et justitiam, non tradas
me calumniantibus me, drawn from Psalm 118, [97] justifying his
proceedings to the satisfaction of those who were free from prejudice.
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