[141] This is the date of the text, and if true, the date of the title-page (1630) must be either a misprint or an equivocation on the part of the author.  Or this instance and the several others similar to it may have been added by Medina to his manuscript after he had completed it to the date of the title-page; or they may be due to a later hand.

[142] In 1893 there were 12,858 inhabitants.—­Coco.  The present civilized population of Arayat is 12,904.  See Bulletin No. 1, ut supra.

[143] Information regarding this father is very slight.  He was admitted as confessor to the Spaniards, as appears by an Augustinian record of November 12, 1602 after having been examined, and having presented his licenses to confess, which had been given him in Goa.  In 1604, he returned to be approved.  See Perez’s Catalogo, p. 185.

[144] In 1893, one of the best towns in Iloilo, with a population of 15,842.—­Coco.

Bulletin No. 1 (ut supra) gives the civilized population for 1903 as 20,964.

[145] Now Dingle, and not connected with Pototan.  It has a population of 9,769.—­Coco.

Also in Iloilo province and with a present civilized population of 12,129.  See Bulletin No. 1, ut supra.

[146] Spanish, lamentado; thus in printed text, but this word seems of dubious accuracy.

[147] It now has [1893] a beautiful stone church, and a population of 5,281.  Its modern name is Duenas.—­Coco.

Also situated in the province of Iloilo, with a present civilized population of 6,700.  See Bulletin No. 1, ut supra.

[148] This is a very important town in Iloilo.  In 1893 it had 15,151 inhabitants.  It had a beautiful stone church, built very high, and in the form of a Greek cross, crowned with a fine cupola.—­Coco.

Its present civilized population is 14,464.  See Bulletin No. 1, ut supra.

[149] Ibahay in the district of Aclan, of Capiz Province—­Coco.

[150] This is Fray Alonso Baraona, a native of Quintanario, in the province of Burgos.  He took his vows in the convent of that city in 1596.  He became prior of Santo Nino in 1607, and was missionary at Dumangas in 1608, Batan in 1609, Jaro in 1610, Aclan in 1613, and Passi in 1614.  He was definitor and prior provincial in 1617, and missionary at Bay in 1633.  His death occurred in 1626.  See Perez’s Catalogo, p. 77.

[151] In 1893 it had 7,623 inhabitants.—­Coco.

The civilized population in 1903 was 8,503.  It is in the province of llocos Sur.  See Bulletin No. 1, ut supra.

[152] In 1893, a parish chart showed 12,180 inhabitants.—­Coco.

Also in llocos Sur, and with a civilized population of 18,828.  See Bulletin No. 1, ut supra.

[153] Dingras with 11,113 inhabitants in 1893.—­Coco.

The present civilized population is 15,792.  This village is situated in the province of Ilocos Norte.  Narvacan (the Nalbacan of the text), in Ilocos Sur, has a present civilized population of 19,575.  See Bulletin No. 1, ut supra.