Note 4 — SYNOPSIS OF LETTER FROM ANDA TO CARLOS III
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Having seen that the four churches that were under the cannon of the fort of Manila had been used by the English as fortifications, who committed all manner of profanations, he ordered the necessary arrangements to be made in the villages to burn them, if the enemy attacked.4 That order poorly understood, exposed the church of Viñan5 to being unnecessarily burned, but it was saved by order of Anda. He also censured the first provision which he had to revoke.