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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898; Volume 47, 1728-1759: 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 47, 1728-1759: 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

I assert that I have investigated thoroughly whatever I have written
in this paper by the aid of some Christian Zambals who are very good
Catholics whom I have had under my care for four years, and whom I
have been teaching to read and have instructed in our holy Catholic
faith by means of the Tagálog books which have been written for that
purpose by the zealous ministers whom that Tagálog nation has had. One
of these Zambals is the son of a priest of the idols, who was reared
in a ranchería where sacrifices were often made to the idols. An uncle
of this lad whom I also have under my charge was formerly bayoc of
the Zambals, so that he knows all the ceremonies, superstitions, and
sacrifices, and is also thoroughly conversant with their customs, for
he lived among the said Zambals for about twenty years. Besides this,
for three years I have had with me another child about ten years old
who also knows the customs of these Indians, because he was born and
raised among them, for he is the son of Zambal parents. All of those
persons tell me what passes among the said Zambals. Besides this, I
have also managed to prove it from the children of the village who,
since they do not realize my purpose in questioning them in regard
to these things, tell me it all. But if I ask any of the old men, or
anyone who is very maliciously minded, he will not tell me anything
unless I ask him secretly.

Consequently, I consider as true whatever I have written here, and
I have refused to write anything of which I am doubtful.


Fray Domingo Perez


[Below is added by another person:]

Until the year 1682, said Zambals were reduced and softened by the
vigilance and attendance of the father missionaries of the order of
our father St. Dominic. May our Lord prosper everything as He is able.

Afterward in November, of the year 83, a bold Indian with another who
accompanied him, waited in a concealed thicket for the father-vicar,
Fray Domingo Perez, who was journeying from one village to another,
and shot him with an arrow, so that he reached his village badly
wounded and died in a short time, after confessing to father Fray
Juan Rois. Since that time the Zambals have been in revolt. May it
be the Lord's will that they grow quiet. Now since the assembly of
84 the fathers have been living cautiously and near the fortress. The
vicar is father Fray Gregorio [93] and his associate Fray Juan Navas,
[94] errant. In Masinloc the vicar is Fray Juan Fernandez [95] and
his associate Fray Juan, [96] errant.

[Copy endorsed: "The undersigned, provincial archivist of the province
of Santísimo Rosario de Filipinas and conventual of the convent of
Santo Domingo of this city, certifies that the preceding copy is
faithfully copied from the original, which is preserved in the third
archives of martyrs--cajon 8, legajo 1, no. 2. In order that the above
may be apparent he signs the present in this convent of Santo Domingo,
January 3, 1906. The archivist,

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History

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898; Volume 47, 1728-1759: 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

I assert that I have investigated thoroughly whatever I have written
in this paper by the aid of some Christian Zambals who are very good
Catholics whom I have had under my care for four years, and whom I
have been teaching to read and have instructed in our holy Catholic
faith by means of the Tagálog books which have been written for that
purpose by the zealous ministers whom that Tagálog nation has had. One
of these Zambals is the son of a priest of the idols, who was reared
in a ranchería where sacrifices were often made to the idols. An uncle
of this lad whom I also have under my charge was formerly bayoc of
the Zambals, so that he knows all the ceremonies, superstitions, and
sacrifices, and is also thoroughly conversant with their customs, for
he lived among the said Zambals for about twenty years. Besides this,
for three years I have had with me another child about ten years old
who also knows the customs of these Indians, because he was born and
raised among them, for he is the son of Zambal parents. All of those
persons tell me what passes among the said Zambals. Besides this, I
have also managed to prove it from the children of the village who,
since they do not realize my purpose in questioning them in regard
to these things, tell me it all. But if I ask any of the old men, or
anyone who is very maliciously minded, he will not tell me anything
unless I ask him secretly.

Consequently, I consider as true whatever I have written here, and
I have refused to write anything of which I am doubtful.


Fray Domingo Perez


[Below is added by another person:]

Until the year 1682, said Zambals were reduced and softened by the
vigilance and attendance of the father missionaries of the order of
our father St. Dominic. May our Lord prosper everything as He is able.

Afterward in November, of the year 83, a bold Indian with another who
accompanied him, waited in a concealed thicket for the father-vicar,
Fray Domingo Perez, who was journeying from one village to another,
and shot him with an arrow, so that he reached his village badly
wounded and died in a short time, after confessing to father Fray
Juan Rois. Since that time the Zambals have been in revolt. May it
be the Lord's will that they grow quiet. Now since the assembly of
84 the fathers have been living cautiously and near the fortress. The
vicar is father Fray Gregorio [93] and his associate Fray Juan Navas,
[94] errant. In Masinloc the vicar is Fray Juan Fernandez [95] and
his associate Fray Juan, [96] errant.

[Copy endorsed: "The undersigned, provincial archivist of the province
of Santísimo Rosario de Filipinas and conventual of the convent of
Santo Domingo of this city, certifies that the preceding copy is
faithfully copied from the original, which is preserved in the third
archives of martyrs--cajon 8, legajo 1, no. 2. In order that the above
may be apparent he signs the present in this convent of Santo Domingo,
January 3, 1906. The archivist,

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