iel in Binondo; became vicar of Samal in the province
of Bataan in 1680, and in 1682 of Abucay, after which he was again
at Binondo. During the years 1686-1690, he was procurator-general,
and during part of that time (1686-1688), had charge of the natives
in the Manila convent. In 1690 he was definitor and acted as vicar
again of Binondo, where he remained until 1698, when he became
president of the college of San Juan de Letran. He was appointed
president of the hospital of San Gabriel, and procurator-general of
the province. Although assigned as vicar of the convent of San Telmo
in Cavite in 1702, he resigned that office in November of that same
year, and went to the mission at Ituy. His death occurred on the
nineteenth of the following month, and resulted from the unhealthful
region. During the year spent among the mountains of Zambales, he
formed the village of Malso. See Resena biografica, ii, pp. 169, 170.

[85] Pedro Mejorada, O.P., professed in the convent at Salamanca, and
on going to the Philippines was assigned to the Tagalog district. He
ministered four years in Binondo, then the same period in Samal,
in the province of Bataan. In 1694, he was assigned as lecturer on
theology at the college of Santo Tomas in Manila, where he remained
for four years. The following eight years were spent in Abucay and
Oriong. In the year 1702 he received the title of calificador of the
Holy Office, and in 1706 was appointed rector and chancellor of the
university, which position he filled until 1710, when he was elected
provincial of the order. On the termination of that office in 1714,
he was elected regent of studies in the college of Santo Tomas. In
November of that same year, however, he resigned in order to return
to his convent at Salamanca, arriving in Madrid in 1716. Although
lie was elected prior of the Salamanca convent, he was not to be
allowed to enjoy that position, for a royal appointment as bishop
of Nueva Segovia caused him, howbeit unwillingly, to return to the
Philippines. Entering those islands once more in 1718, he assumed
the duties of his office, but died in Vigan in June of the following
year in the sixty-third year of his age, and after a residence in the
islands of thirty-one years. See Resena biografica, ii, pp. 230-234.

[86] Domingo Collantes, the author of the fourth part of the Dominican
history of the Philippines, was a native of Villa de Herrin de
Campos, in the bishopric of Palencia. He profes