[41] The status of a tertiary, or “member of the third order,” was originated by St. Francis of Assisi, after the foundation of his own order, and that of the Minorite nuns who lived under a rule prescribed by him.  In 1221 he instituted a third order, the members of which, men and women, should be bound by rule to more unworldliness of life, pious devotion, and works of mercy than those of ordinary persons living in the world.  He called them “Brothers and Sisters of Penance.”  They had to take a year’s novitiate, and a simple vow to observe the rule.  Many tertiaries, in course of time, desired to take solemn vows and live in community, while still conforming to the rule of the Third Order; thus arose various congregations of tertiary monks and nuns.  Other religious orders had their Third Order; that of the Augustinians was established at the beginning of the fifteenth century. (Addis and Arnold’s Catholic Dictionary, p. 792.)

[42] Following are translations of the title-pages of this work, of which facsimiles are here presented: 

Engraved title-page:  “General History of the discalced religious of the Order of the hermits of the great father and doctor of the Church, St. Augustine, of the congregation of Espana and of the Indias.  To the most excellent duke of Ixar count of Salinas.  By Father Fray Luis de Jesus son of the same congregation, and its chronicler.  Volume second.  From the year M.DC.L.  Divided into three decades.  Engraved by Pedro a Villafranca royal engraver, Madrid. 1663.”

Printed title-page: “General History of the discalced religious of the Order of the hermits of the great father and doctor of the Church, St. Augustine, of the congregation of Espana and of the Indias.  By Father Fray Luis de Jesus, son of the same congregation, pensioned lecturer, general chronicler, and acting provincial of Castilla the old and the new.  Dedicated to the most excellent Senor Don Jayme Francisco de Hijar Silva Sarmiento, etc., protector of our sacred Reform convent.  Volume second.  Divided into three decades, from the year twenty-one to that of fifty.  With privilege.  In Madrid:  Printed by Lucas Antonio de Bedmar, printer of the kingdom.  Year of 1681.”

[43] Delgado in his Historia, pp. 813-816, describes this bird. Tabon, he says, is a word that signifies in the Pintados “to hide by covering, or to cover by concealing it with earth.”  When the chick first appears its plumage is white and gray.  Its wings are used at first for aid in running rather than in flying.  The bird lives mainly on fish, which it catches in the sea.  The eggs, which are very nutritious, are eaten with gusto by the natives.