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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

History

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

but they saw in front of the royal buildings, impaled on stakes,
the heads of Alcalde-mayor Francisco Gómez Pulido, Nicolás de Campos,
Pedro Saraspe, and the wife and the sister-in-law of Pulido--which the
rebels, in their confusion, could not hide. When those people rebel,
and see that they involve themselves in danger, they try to lead the
rest to engage in destruction, in order thus to persuade the rabble
and those who are easily deluded that, if they remain in the villages,
they expose themselves to the blows of the vengeance which will be
executed on those whom the sword encounters. For the same reason,
they try to burn the churches and kill the priests, thinking that with
such atrocious deeds the crime becomes general, even though it has
been committed by only a few. Thus fear, which so easily finds place
in their pusillanimous natures, drives them to flee as fugitives;
and necessity makes them take refuge with those who are traitors,
fearing their cruelties. It was this that had caused most [of the
people of Lingayén] to flee, since their hands were free from such
crimes. On the same night when General Ugalde arrived, four agents
of Don Andrés Malóng came, in accordance with the warning of Father
Camacho which had hastened the general's decision; they came to set
fire to the church and seize the religious; and, as they did not
find the men whom they had left in defense of the bar, or any one
of their faction in the village who could warn them in time, they
easily fell into the power of Ugalde's men. He immediately ordered
that their heads should be cut off and suspended from hooks on the
road to Binalatongan, in order that these might be tokens of the
severity that would be experienced by those who were stubborn in their
rebellion. By this means General Felipe de Ugalde so quickly pushed
his good fortune that when the military commander-in-chief arrived,
which was on January 17, only two villages in the entire province of
Pangasinán, those of Malunguey and Binalatongan, persisted in their
rebellion; and most of the inhabitants of the villages had returned
to their homes, remaining in their shelter and peace.

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History

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

but they saw in front of the royal buildings, impaled on stakes,
the heads of Alcalde-mayor Francisco Gómez Pulido, Nicolás de Campos,
Pedro Saraspe, and the wife and the sister-in-law of Pulido--which the
rebels, in their confusion, could not hide. When those people rebel,
and see that they involve themselves in danger, they try to lead the
rest to engage in destruction, in order thus to persuade the rabble
and those who are easily deluded that, if they remain in the villages,
they expose themselves to the blows of the vengeance which will be
executed on those whom the sword encounters. For the same reason,
they try to burn the churches and kill the priests, thinking that with
such atrocious deeds the crime becomes general, even though it has
been committed by only a few. Thus fear, which so easily finds place
in their pusillanimous natures, drives them to flee as fugitives;
and necessity makes them take refuge with those who are traitors,
fearing their cruelties. It was this that had caused most [of the
people of Lingayén] to flee, since their hands were free from such
crimes. On the same night when General Ugalde arrived, four agents
of Don Andrés Malóng came, in accordance with the warning of Father
Camacho which had hastened the general's decision; they came to set
fire to the church and seize the religious; and, as they did not
find the men whom they had left in defense of the bar, or any one
of their faction in the village who could warn them in time, they
easily fell into the power of Ugalde's men. He immediately ordered
that their heads should be cut off and suspended from hooks on the
road to Binalatongan, in order that these might be tokens of the
severity that would be experienced by those who were stubborn in their
rebellion. By this means General Felipe de Ugalde so quickly pushed
his good fortune that when the military commander-in-chief arrived,
which was on January 17, only two villages in the entire province of
Pangasinán, those of Malunguey and Binalatongan, persisted in their
rebellion; and most of the inhabitants of the villages had returned
to their homes, remaining in their shelter and peace.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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