Fray Pedro del Castillo became a conventual of Pototan in 1605, and was minister of Dingle in 1611 and 1633, of Jaro in 1614, of Laglag in 1617, and of San Nicolas de Cebu in 1621.  He was also subprior of the convent of San Pablo in Manila in 1623, and minister of Santa Cruz in Ilocos the same year; was procurator-general; and exercised the care of souls in Bacarra in 1626, and in Purao in 1629, dying in 1642.

Fray Martin de San Nicolas was a native of Osma, and made his profession in the convent of Puebla de los Angeles.  He was a missionary in Maluco and Japan for some years.  While vicar at Guimbal in 1617, he accompanied the troops on an expedition against the Moros of Mindanao.  He died at Manila in 1630.

See Perez’s Catalogo.

[9] Fray Esteban Carrillo was a native of the city of Ecija and made his profession in the Cordoba convent, where he obtained a professorship.  On going to the Philippines he spent four years among the highlands of Ilocos.  He was preacher-general (1602-1609), provincial secretary (October 31, 1603), prior of Manila (December 24, 1603), definitor (1605), and procurator-commissary to Madrid (1607).  He was one of the foremost orators in Manila, which city he left in 1609 for Spain, where he died in 1617.  See Perez’s Catalogo, p. 52.

[10] Fray Pedro de Aguirre took his vows in the convent at Mexico.  He was, after his arrival at the islands, a conventual in Pasig and Bombon until 1600, in which year he went to Taguig, whence he passed to Calumpit in 1602.  He was prior of Santo Nino in 1603, and commissary-procurator to Spain and Rome in 1607, dying in 1631.

Fray Roque de Barrionuevo, a native of Lubia, took his vows in the convent of Agreda in 1589.  In 1597 he was laboring in Tanauan, and in Malolos in 1600.  In 1606, while in Hagonoy, he went to Ternate at the request of Pedro de Acuna, whence he returned in 1608.  He was definitor and minister of Malolos in 1609, of Tondo in 1612.  He died in 1649.  He wrote a grammar and dictionary of the Mardica dialect.

Fray Miguel de Sigueenza professed at the Burgos convent in 1579.  From 1581 to 1599 he labored at various missions in the Visayas and in Luzon.  He was provincial secretary in 1602 and visitor to the Tagals the same year, after which (1605) he exercised the care of souls in Hagonoy and in Calumpit until 1607, in which year he died.

Fray Mateo de Peralta was a conventual at Lubao in 1584, of Pangasinan in 1587, of Calumpit in 1590; after which he was at the missions in Mexico (1591 and 1607), Porac (in 1594), Candaba (in 1597), Lubao (in 1602), Betis (in 1608), and Apalit in 1609, where he died in the same year.

See Perez’s Catalogo.

[11] The text reads puerta, “gate,” which is probably an error for huerta, “garden.”  See account of their establishment, in Vol. xxi, p. 269.

[12] The Franciscans now (1893) have charge of Sampaloc.—­Coco.