[2] Alfaro was provisor in 1578–79 (Huerta’s Estudo, p. 441), at which time the governor was Francisco de Sande.
[3] Espolio: the property which a prelate leaves at his death.
[4] Patrimonio: property peculiarly made spiritual, according to the needs of the Church, so that anyone may be ordained on its foundation.
[5] A chaplaincy is a pious foundation made by any religious person, and elected into a benefice by the ecclesiastical ordinary, with the annexed obligation of saying a certain number of masses, or with the obligation of other analogous spiritual duties. Chaplaincies of this class are collative, thus being differentiated from those purely laical, in which the authority of the ordinary does not intervene. See Dic. nacional lengua española (Madrid, 1878).
[6] The summary of the above-mentioned chart is as follows:
| Provinces | Number of curacies | Held by regulars | Held by seculars |
| Cebú | 45 | 32 | 12 |
| Island of Negros | 14 | 4 | 10 |
| Leyte | 14 | 7 | 7 |
| Samar | 15 | 14 | 0 |
| Capiz | 18 | 10 | 9 |
| Iloilo | 29 | 22 | 7 |
| Antíque | 11 | 4 | 7 |
| Misamis | 7 | 7 | 0 |
| Caraga | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| Nueva-Guipúzcoa | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Calamianes | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| Zamboanga | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Marianas Islands | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| Total | 170 | 112 | 56 |
[7] The bishopric of Jaro was separated, by papal decree, in 1865, from that of Cebú, and contained the provinces of Iloilo, Concepcion, Capiz, and Antique (these four being included within the island of Panay); also Mindanao (excepting Misamis and Surigao, which are in the bishopric of Cebú), Calamianes, Negros, and Romblón. The Marianas Islands were assigned to the diocese of Cebú; also Bohol, Leyte, and Samar.
“The diocese of Jaro was created by bull of Pius IX in 1865, and its first bishop was Don Fray Mariano Cuartero, who died in 1884. He was succeeded by Don Fray Leandro Arúe, a Recollect religious, who died in 1897. In his place was chosen Don Fray Andrés Ferrero de San José, a religious of the same order.” (Archipiélago filipino, ii, p. 256.)
[8] An evident error, as Caraga is in Mindanao; probably the writer meant to say Albay, as is indicated in his enumeration of parishes in the diocese of Nueva Cáceres, sheet [11] of appendices at end of vol. ii. The boundaries of provinces in Luzon were formerly quite different, in many cases, from the present ones. See, for instance, the map in Mas’s Informe (1843), preceding his chapter on “Territorial divisions;” Albay thereon includes not only the present Sorsogon, but the islands of Masbate, Ticao, and Catanduanes.
[9] This should be Bondog; it is but one of the many typographical errors which detract from the value of Buzeta and Bravo’s Diccionario. Bañgsa apparently means the present Bangon; Bulsnan, Bulusan; Tigbi, Tiui or Tivi; Lognoy, Lagonoy. We have corrected in the text several other names incorrectly spelled.