[1] This résumé of events during the latter part of the eighteenth century is compiled from Montero y Vidal's Historia de Filipinas, ii, pp. 66-70, 115-140, 229-382; that work is mainly annalistic. Of those which we have used in former volumes, Murillo Velarde's stops at 1716, and Concepción and Zúñiga at the siege of Manila (evidently for the prudential reasons, connected with persons still living, which Zúñiga frankly assigns in his own case); Montero y Vidal is therefore the only writer now available who follows the thread of secular events connectedly throughout the later history of the islands. Wherever possible, we have used his own language--which, in long citations, or special phrases, is distinguished by quotation marks. [2] On March 27, 1765, Viana declared (Respuestas, fol. 113) that the natives of Pangasinan ought to be compelled to pay all arrears of tribute due since the last collection made before the English invasion; that the village notables should not be exempted; and that each tribute ought to pay two reals extra to reimburse the government for the costs of putting down the rebellion in that province. Later (fol. 134), he estimates that the tributes in that province are the same as before the war; "for, although it is certain that a great many of the insurgents died, it is also evident that the reduction [of the province] prevents the concealment of the tributes which was formerly practiced by the heads of barangay." [3] Puch specified the alcaldes-mayor (VOL. XLIX, p. 337, note 208)--cf. what Viana says of those officials in his "Memorial" (VOL. XLVIII), chapter v, sections 34-38--but his remarks were considered as reflections on higher officials.