[80] Fray Francisco Manrique professed at Valladolid, and on his arrival at the islands relieved Father Rada (September 11, 1575) of the ministry at Oton.  He was afterward definitor and missionary at Lubao (1576); rector provincial in 1577; first minister to Candaba in 1579; prior of Manila, 1575, 1578, 1581, and 1584; definitor, 1581; vicar-provincial, 1582; and first prior of Macao, 1587.  His death must have occurred in 1588, as his name does not appear after that in the provincial records. Ibid. p. 16.

[81] Fray Sebastian Molina, after his arrival at the islands, became first minister to Macabebe in 1575.  He died in September of the following year. Ibid., p. 16.

[82] Fray Alonso Heredero was an austere religious, and was three times minister at Macabebe (1576, 1578, and 1581).  He was definitor and minister at Calumpit in 1584, and again definitor and minister at Mejico in 1590.  He died in the latter town in 1591. Ibid., p. 16.

[83] The viceroy of Nueva Espana at this time was Martin Enriquez de Almansa; he arrived in the City of Mexico November 5, 1568, and held his office until October, 1580, when he was succeeded by the Conde de la Coruna.

[84] The Franciscans were in charge of these islands in 1893.—­Coco.

[85] The “Christian Doctrine” of Cardinal Bellarmino; see Vol.  XVII, p. 70, and note.

[86] Only the name of Parian remains today; and of the church not even the ruins.—­Coco.

[87] San Agustin (Conquistas p. 381) says that the Augustinian mission to the Chinese was established in the Tondo convent in 1581, and placed under the special charge of Fray Diego Munoz.  Later a suit arose between the Augustinians and Dominicans (Conquistas, p. 533) as to the administration of the Chinese at Baybay.  It was settled in 1612, on condition of the two orders celebrating alternately Corpus Christi day.

[88] Ecclesiastes xi, 30.—­Coco.

[89] See Gonzalez de Mendoza’s Historia de la gran China (1586), for a relation of this journey.  Part of it may be found in Vol.  VI of this series, pp. 114-125.

[90] This is evidently the Historia de la gran China by Gonzalez de Mendoza.

[91] In Tagal, molave.—­Coco.

[92] Bulacan in the census preceding 1893 had a population of 13,659.—­Coco.

Bulletin No. 1 gives Bulacan 11,589 civilized inhabitants.

[93] The Rio Grande of Pampanga.

[94] In 1893, the inhabitants numbered 15,156, with a convent and church of solid masonry.—­Coco.

Bulletin No. 1 makes the present civilized population 11,783.

[95] In 1893 Macabebe had 19,801 inhabitants, and a stone church and convent.—­Coco.

The civilized population now (see Bulletin No. 1, ut supra) is 14,405.

[96] The population of the province of Pampanga is reported for five different years as follows:  1818, 106,381; 1840, 152,232; 1850, 156,272; 1870, 203,137 (these four including Tarlac); 1887, 223,902.  The estimate of the U.S.  Gazetteer of the Philippine Islands, from which these numbers are taken, figures a population of 223,922 for 1901.  Bulletin No. 1 (ut supra) reports 223,754 for 1903, of whom 222,656 are civilized, and 1,098 wild.