[52] Le Gentil and Marquina are cited by Montero y Vidal (Hist. de Filipinas, ii, p. 14) to show that Arandia died by poison or other violent means. [↑]
[53] His full name was Manuel Antonio Rojo del Río y Vieyra. [↑]
[54] At this point properly should come the documents which relate the invasion of the islands by the English, their capture of Manila, the consequent disturbances in the provinces, etc.; but the great length of this episode, and the desirability of bringing all this material together in one volume, induce us to place it all in VOL. XLIX, completing this present volume with the noted memorial by the royal fiscal Viana, written nearly a year after the evacuation of Manila by the English. [↑]
MEMORIAL OF 1765
By Francisco Leandro de Viana. MS. dated February 10, 1765.
Source: This document is translated from a MS.—apparently a duplicate copy of the first original, and bearing Viana’s autograph signature—in the possession of Edward E. Ayer, Chicago.
Translation: This is made by Emma Helen Blair.