ices of the
alcalde-mayor of Pangasinan, he silenced the Zambal Indians so that
they should take the privation of their Recollects gracefully, and
lower the head to the admission of the Dominican fathers. Thereupon,
the sea of opposition having been calmed, and after the three
seculars who were administering to Mindoro had been assigned fitting
competencies, which were provided for them in Manila, an act of the
royal Audiencia provided that our reformed order should be entrusted
with the administration of the said island, with absolute clauses
which established it in the said royal decree, and without the least
respect the abandonment of the Zambal missions. Then immediately
preceding the juridical surrender of them, which was signed by the
above-mentioned father provincial, although it was protested by only
the father lector, Fray Joseph de la Assumpcion, and father Fray
Francisco de la Madre de Dios, a second act was passed by which the
missions were assigned to the fathers of St. Dominic. Thus did the
archbishop have a complete victory.

797. By virtue of those decrees, which were announced to our
provincial, April 17, 1679, that holy province was dispossessed of all
the Zambal mountain range, which then contained eleven villages. They
were also dispossessed of the missions which father Fray Joseph de la
Trinidad was then fomenting in the nearby mountains by the far-reaching
fruits of his apostolic preaching, as we have mentioned worthily in
another place. [43] The individual members of the province of Santo
Rosario hastened to take charge of the ministries and missions of
the Zambals which had been surrendered to them by Ours without the
least disturbance being observed publicly, although almost all of
those governed by the said Father Trinidad threatened violence. Those
juridical measures, with what was done in Manila, served much later
for the recovery of Zambales without the loss of the new possessions
of Mindoro. The necessary papers were also despatched directed to
the corregidor of Mindoro, ordering him to deliver the ministries
of that island to the discalced Augustinians. Without loss of time,
the father definitor, Fray Diego de la Madre de Dios, assumed charge
of the district of Baco, while the bachelor Don Joseph de Roxas who
possessed it left it. The curacy of Calavite was taken possession
of by father Fray Diego de la Resurreccion, who took the place of
Licentiate Don Juan Pedrosa. The parish of Naoyan