[26] Paul van Caerden (Pablo Blanchardo), who had made several voyages to the East Indies, was captured by Sargento-mayor Pedro de Heredia after a fierce fight near Terrenate, the seat of the new Dutch posts in the Malucos.  Juan de Esquivel, Spanish governor of the Malucos, allowed him to pay a ransom of fifty thousand pesos; but was severely rebuked by the Manila Audiencia then in power, for doing so without first advising them.  Esquivel took the censure so much to heart that he fell into a melancholy, and died soon after.  His successor, Sargento-mayor Azcueta Menchaca, anxious to please the Audiencia, pursued van Caerden and captured him a second time, although the Dutch tried to burn their ship to escape such an ignominy.  He was sent to Manila, and his ransom promised on certain conditions.  Twenty-two Spanish prisoners at Ternate were given; but, the other conditions not being met, the Dutch officer was kept prisoner at the expense of the royal treasury until his death, in Manila.  See La Concepcion’s Hist. de Philipinas, iv, pp. 112-114.

[27] La Concepcion and Montero y Vidal make this name Faxardo (or Fajardo) instead of Pardos; and the latter gives the following name as Luis Moreno Donoso.

[28] The original is malos dias, literally, “a bad ‘good-morning.’” It is used as the term buenos dias, or “good morning.”

[29] The Trinitarian order was founded at Rome in 1198 by St. John of Matha, a native of Provence, and Felix of Valois, an aged French hermit, in order to redeem Christian captives from the infidels.  The order received sanction from Innocent III.  Their rule was that of St. Augustine, with particular statutes; and their diet was one of great austerity.  The habit in France was a soutane and scapular of white serge, with a red and blue cross on the right breast.  The first monastery was established at Cerfroy, France, and continued to be the mother-house, until the French Revolution.  At one time the order had two hundred and fifty houses, and by the seventeenth century had rescued 30,720 Christian captives.  At the dissolution they had eleven houses in England, five in Scotland, and one in Ireland.  The religious were often called Red or Maturin friars in England, from the color of the cross on their habit and because of their famous house at Paris near the chapel of St. Maturin.

A reformation made by Father Juan Baptista was approved by the Holy See in 1599, and resulted in the erection of the congregation of discalced Trinitarians in Spain.  Their houses, as well as those of the unreformed portion of the order, were suppressed in Spain in the reign of Isabella II.

See Addis and Arnold’s Catholic Dictionary, p. 810.

[30] The Ventura del Arco copy reads concera, which may be a mistranscription for cascara, hull.

[31] Pedro Montejo took his vows at the Toledo Augustinian convent.  After his arrival at Manila he was master of novitiates and superior of the Manila convent of San Pablo until 1607.  In that year he was assigned to the Japan missions at his own request.  He probably did not go to that empire, however, for shortly afterward he was in Manila again on business for the province, where he embarked.  He was captured by the Dutch and killed, as stated in the text, by a ball from the Spanish fleet.  See Perez’s Catalogo.