[80] Fray Pedro de la Peña was born in Burgos, and professed in the convent of Badaya in 1599. He worked in the Ilocan villages of Bantay, and Narvacán (1617). After laboring also in the villages of Apálit and Macabebe (1626), he was chosen commissary-procurator to Madrid (1630), dying in the following year, aboard ship. See Pérez’s Catálogo, p. 86.
[81] St. Luke, i, 37.—Coco.
[82] Fray Pedro de Quesada, a native of Jaen, took his vows in the province of Castilla. He was appointed preacher-general and reader of theology in 1630, and labored afterward in the villages of Malolos (1632), Lipa (1636), and Bulacán (1638). In 1639 he went to Spain as procurator-commissary of Madrid and definitor-general; but the intermediary chapter having annulled his appointment, he set out again for the islands as president of a mission of religious, dying in Mexico in 1645. See Pérez’s Catálogo, p. 107.
[83] Paul’s Epistle to the Romans, viii, 37.—Coco.
[84] Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians, vi, 14.—Coco.
[85] Blumentritt in his List of Native Tribes of the Philippines (Mason’s translation, Washington, 1901), says of the people of this name: “In a chart of the Philippines for 1744, by P. Murillo Velarde, S. J., this name is to be seen west of Caraga and Bislig (Mindanao). English authors speak of the Tagaboloyes, Waitz mentions their clear color, and Mas calls them Igorrotes. Others add that they were Mestizos of Indians, and more fables to the same effect. Their region has been well explored, but only Manabos and Mandayas have been found there. The last named are clear colored, so Tagaboloyes seems to be another name for Mandayas. The name sounds temptingly like Tagabalíes.”
Documents of 1630–1633
- [Royal letters and decree]. Felipe IV; December 4–31, 1630.
- [Letter to Felipe IV from the bishop of Cebú]. Pedro de Arce; July 31, 1631.
- [Royal orders, 1632–33]. Felipe IV; January–March, 1632, and March, 1633.
- [Letters to Felipe IV]. Juan Niño de Tavora; July 8, 1632.
- [Events in Filipinas, 1630–32]. [Unsigned]; July 2, 1632.
- [Letter from the ecclesiastical cabildo to Felipe IV]. Miguel Garcetas, and others; [undated, but 1632].
Sources: The first and third documents are obtained from MSS. in the Archivo Histórico Nacional, Madrid; the second, fourth, and sixth, from MSS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla; the fifth, from a MS. in the Academia Real de la Historia, Madrid.