5. Of the Dominican friar who went to look at the bulls of Don Fernando, that he might enter as a Franciscan.
6. How not even this gentleman has escaped from the anger of the archbishop and Verart.
7. Of the inundation in Cagayan; of the locusts, famine, earthquakes, and drouths; of disturbances, etc.[15]
8. Of the rosary entirely made of silver coins,[16] one hundred and fifty thousand in number, which, it is said, the blessed Dominican fathers gave to the governor.
9. Of the imprisonment of Roberto; and why and how the provisor went, with great clatter of weapons and constables, to arrest a brother of the Society.
10. How Father Pedroche, who had been banished from these islands, escaped from Acapulco, and came back dressed as a Recollect.
11. Of the Dominican friar who killed another in Cagayan.[17]
[1] Spanish, gentilhombre: an obsolete word, meaning a person sent to the king with important despatches (Velázquez’s Dictionary, Appleton’s ed.).
[2] Jacinto Garcia was born in Castellar, November 6, 1654, and at the age of twenty-one entered the Jesuit order. Four years later he joined the Philippine mission, he was procurator of the Manila college for three years, and superior in Marinduque for the same time. He died at Manila, May 1, 1710. (Murillo Velarde, fol. 397 b.)