Note 2 — News from the Province of Filipinas, This Year, 1621

On the seventeenth of December, they arrested two religious of St. Francis, one a priest named Fray Pedro de Avila,2 and another a layman, Fray Vicente. On the twelfth of February they beheaded two leading natives for their faith. On the thirteenth of the same month they bound to the stake, in order to burn alive, a man who had two religious in his house. On account of his anxiety to escape the fire, he confessed; and leaping from it (they say) he begged them not to kill him, saying that [illegible in MS.]. They cut him to pieces, however, without mercy, and he was sent to the Lord.