provincial chapter in 1602; and labored at
Paranaque in 1603, and Tondo in 1605, dying that same year.

Fray Agustin de Tapia was a native of Burgos, and professed in the
convent at the same city. He had charge of the mission which arrived at
Manila in June, 1595; was preacher and confessor in September of the
same year; preacher-general in 1597; missionary in Panay in 1599; at
Guagua in 1601; definitor and prior of Cavite in 1602. He died in 1604.

For brief sketch of Fray Bernabe Villalobos see _vol. xxiii_, note 32.

Fray Diego Cerrabe was a native of Burgos, professing in the convent
of that city in 1584. On going to the islands he became confessor
and preacher in 1595, examiner in 1596, and lecturer and minister
at Pasig in 1600-1602, going to Europe as definitor of the general
chapter in the last year, and probably remaining in Spain.

Fray Pedro(_not_ Diego) Salcedo was born of an illustrious family
in Mexico, and took his vows at that city in 1583 at the age of
twenty-five. He went to the Philippines in 1598, where he exercised the
care of souls in Bay in 1600, in Hagonoy in 1607 and 1617, in Bulacan
in 1614, and in Malolos in 1618. He was definitor in 1602 and 1608,
and prior of Manila in 1605 and 1611. His death occurred at Malolos
in 1619.

Fray Juan Bautista de Montoya was a native of Castilla, and after
professing at the convent in Burgos went to the Philippines, where
he was subprior and master of novitiates in the Manila convent
(1581-1583), and missionary in Cagayan (1583-1586), after which he
returned to Manila, but the same year went to Macao, where he remained
until 1591. He acted as definitor that same year, and afterward was
missionary at a number of villages, where he lived a busy life, his
death occurring in 1632. He wrote sermons in Tagal, and translated
the catechism into the same language, and wrote a history of the
Augustinian order in the Philippines.

Fray Francisco Serrano professed at San Felipe el Real in 1574. After
going to the islands he labored at Macabebe, Lubao, Candaba, and Guagua
until 1596, when he was appointed provincial secretary. At the end of
his term in that office, he was chosen subprior of the Manila convent,
visitor, and finally definitor. He died in 1613.

The above notices are taken from Perez's _Catalogo_.

[4] Fray Pedro Solier was born in the town of Barajas in 1578, and
began his studies in Toledo. Me entered the Augustinian convent at
Salamanca in 1593,