procurator. He
was versed in the various dialects of the Bisayan Islands. See
Sommervogel's Bibliotheque, and post, note 9.

[9] The archbishop of Manila, Miguel Poblete, wrote to the king in
like terms under date of July 8, 1654, as did also the bishop of
Nueva Caceres, under date of December 15, 1654. When Father Diego
Patino reached Mexico, he obtained permission from the viceroy there
(June 26, 1656) to go to Madrid and Rome. Patino died of suffocation
from hernia, in Tenerife at the convent of the Dominicans, July 26,
1657, and was succeeded in his office by Brother Francisco Bello, who
presented his licenses, authorizations, and memoranda to the Council,
September 30, 1659 [sic. in Pastells, but probably 1658.] Recruits
finally reached the Jesuits in 1662. The above document is only one
of many written by various persons, detailing the need of the Jesuit
missions and petitioning aid. See Pastells's Colin, iii, pp. 787-790,
where some of these letters are given with press-marks.

[10] Magino Sola was born at Girona, April 22, 1605, and was admitted
into the Society of Jesus, August 15, 1624. He went to the Philippines,
where he labored among the natives for three years, was procurator
of his province for four years, minister at Manila for three years,
rector of Silang, and after 1659 procurator for the Philippines in
Spain. He died at Cadiz, October 31, 1664. Sommervogel mentions two
letters written by him.

[11] A note of Ventura del Arco, the transcriber and synopsizer of
this document, says: "It is not exact to say that this was the cause
of the insurrection of the Sangleys either in 1639 or in 1603."

[12] Miguel Solana was born in Castilla, June 1, 1594; at the age
of eighteen he entered the Jesuit order, and ten years later (1622)
came to the Philippines. During twenty years he ministered to both
the Spaniards and the natives, and later was (twice) provincial, and
procurator-general at Madrid. He died at San Miguel, December 21, 1669.

Cf. this document with "Jesuit missions in 1656" (Vol. XXVIII of this
series, pp. 78-103), both being written by royal command.

[13] This information is obtained by Montero y Vidal from a report
made in 1654 by the Jesuits, at the order of the colonial government;
it is probably one of the local reports used by Solana in compiling
the preceding account.

[14] Murillo Velarde says of the Lutaos (Hist. de Philipinas,
fol. 73b): "They are capable and alert, and remind me