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[left margin] Year [right margin] 1640
Investigation that Master Joseph Cabral,
priest of the district of Balayan,
with jurisdiction in this province, has carried out on behalf
of the most illustrious Señor Don Fray Hernando Gue-
rrero, Metropolitan Archbishop in these islands and of the
Council of His Majesty, about the miracle that Our
Lady of Caysasay performed with Juan Ynbin, a Christian
Sangley.

[signature] Alonso Márquez, notary.

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[on the left margin] Investigation of the miracle commissioned to Master Joseph Cabral

We, Don Fray Hernando Guerrero, by the grace of God and of the
Holy Apostolic See, Metropolitan Archbishop of these Philippine islands, of the Council of His Majesty. Concerning a testimony that has come to our hands, signed by Alonso Márquez, the public scribe of the province of Balayan, a part of our diocese, which says that an image of Our Lady the Virgin Mary, Queen of Angels, who is at the church of Casaysay, in the circuit of the priory of Taal, has performed a miracle with a Christian
Sangley named Juan Ynbin, a stonecutter. [He] was at the time employed to help
constructing the said church. [He] was taken with other Sangleys and
left for dead by their executors, due to the general uprising [of Sangleys]
in Calamba, the parián of this city, and in Santa Cruz. They [the soldiers] gave him [Ynbin]
great and penetrating wounds in such a way that they left him for dead. And it
looks like the said Juan Ynbin, had just given confession with the father priest
Fray Alonso Rodríguez, the prior of the said convent of Taal, and entrusting
himself to the said image so that she would release him from his death [sentence]. The
testimony reveals that he had four deep wounds. Each one is such that could single-handedly cause one's death. All his main nerves on his neck were cut with machete blows and his body was speared in his right breast. And [it was stated that he] stayed for three days without food or
drink, without receiving any aid at all, and was in the water and [suffered] all the kinds of inclemencies from above. And the said Juan Ynbin said and declared that
the said image appeared to him. [She] took him out of the sea where he was the first time
she came to his aid. And brought him to the shore and to dry land on top of a white leaf.
And as she dragged him, [he saw] that caimans and other terrifying fish ran away from the said image. And having brought him
to land, she commanded him to continue working on his [church] project. And when he told her that she did not know the way to go to Casaysay, where her church was being constructed, she showed him the way, helping him overpass a river without getting wet. In this way, he walked
until he reached the said place and stayed in the vault of the church. And the said witness states that the said wounds are so large and penetrating--without any smell or swelling, which generally is expected about twenty-four hours and especially if they get wet--and everything said are the effects of things that could not happen without a specific miracle and aid provided by such a great Lady.

And for her greater honor and glory and that of her precious and blessed son, it is important that
this marvelous miracle is authenticated with all the information of
what has happened, so that in this way the faithful will be encouraged to her
devotion. We delegate our voices and jurisdiction, with the highest authority
to Master Joseph Cabral, priest and vicar of the district of Balayan,
so that he can produce an investigation with all the witnesses who directly
or indirectly know about the case, in its whole or in parts.
[He] needs to bring in the said Juan Ynbin [and] have him make a new
statement, following all the judicial and extra-judicial guidelines that
are convenient. And for added strength, he will name a church assistant
who will follow [the case]. He will take an oath to fulfill
his responsibilities well and dutifully. And he will name as notary
of the case the said Alonso Márquez, public scribe, who from now on
we name as such and will receive from him the oath of de fidelitate.
And he will name faithful translators and other ministers in such
necessary case. And the completed investigation, which will be closed and stamped with a seal, will be sent to us. And we charge the said master to take care of this affair with
the care that such a case requires. And for greater solemnity
he will give the oath of de fidelitate to the priest we assign of the order of our father Saint Augustine.
And for validation, we have rendered the present [statement] with the signatures
we have signed ourselves, stamped with the seal of our arms, and notarized by
our secretary. Given in Manila, in our palace, on the January eighth, one thousand six hundred and forty years.

[signatures] Fray Hernando,
Archbishop. By the order of his Most Illustrious Lordship, Diego Núñez.

[on the left margin] Acceptance of the commission

In the town of Casaysay, a district of Taal, on
the January eighteenth, one thousand six hundred and forty years,
Master Joseph Cabral, the priest in charge of the district of Balayan,
said that by the commission of his Most Illustrious Señor Don Fray Hernando
Guerrero, archbishop of these islands and of the Council of his Majesty, he is charged with the investigation of the miracle of Our Lady of Casaysay, which
is more extensively commissioned by this other part. And to satisfy [the commission]

first and before anything, he gave his oath of fidelity, and said he accepted
the said commission and swore in verbo sacerdotis, putting his
right hand on his chest before the father priest Fray Alonso Rodríguez,
the prior of this district of Taal, said he would carry out [his duty] in the manner
the said commission described. And the said Father prior and the said
Master Joseph Cabral. [Signatures] Fray Alonso Rodríguez, Master Joseph
Cabral. Before me, Alonso Márquez, notary.

[on the left margin] Acceptance of the notary.

In the said town of Casaysay, on the said day, month, and year already
mentioned, the said Master Joseph Cabral, the commissioned judge, received
the oath through God Our Lord. And Alonso Márquez, the notary named by His Most Illustrious Lordship as indicated in the said commission, made the sign of the
cross, and said that he accepted his nomination. And he [promised] to carry [his duty] well and
faithfully in the best of his knowledge and abilities. And to the absolution
of the oath he said, "yes, I swear," and "amén." And he signed it along the mentioned
commissioned judge. Master Joseph Cabral. Alonso Márquez, notary.
It is in agreement with the original commission and its acceptance
by Master Joseph Cabral and his oath. And likewise,
the acceptance of Alonso Márquez, the named notary,
which is correct and true. And the said
original commission give it to Joseph Cabral,
And the witnesses saw its corrections and handling.
Don Antonio Tanhayanin, Juan Obagan, Pedro Cabello,
present. And so that it is stated and mandated by the said commissioned judge,
I wrote the present [document], which is made in this town of Casaysay on January eighteenth, one thousand six hundred and forty years.

[signature] Alonso Márquez, notary.

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[on the left margin] Decree to name the officials [of the case]

In the town of Casaysay, on the eighteenth day of the
month of January of the year sixteen forty, Master Joseph Cabral,
the priest in charge of the district of Balayan and the commissioned judge
for the investigation of the miracle that Our Lady has performed in the said town, said
that it was necessary to first, name a priest cleric and the translators of the
Sangley and Tagalog languages. And they should be satisfactory and trustful persons. And each person
should receive their charges in the proper manner. And this decree states it with a signature.

[signatures] Master Cabral
Before me, Alonso Márquez,
notary.

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[on the left margin] Appointment of Thomás Dimaligalig as translator

Master Joseph Cabral, the priest in charge of the district of Balayan
and the commissioned judge for the investigation of the miracle of Our Lady of
Casaysay said that it was necessary to name a translator of the Tagalog language
who would be satisfactory and trustworthy, and who knew the Castilian language,
so that with all faithfulness he could translate for the Tagalog witnesses if it were necessary for the investigation and other things that might be given
in the Tagalog language. And because there is a current need and by virtue of the faculty commissioned to me, I choose you, Thomás Dimaligalid and
name you translator of the Tagalog language for the said
investigation of the said miracle. In order to use and exercise [your appointment]
and first and before all things, you will swear to
use your office well and faithfully. And the said Thomás
Dimaligalig, being present, said he accepted the said appointment
of translator for the said investigation of the said miracle and said that
he would carry out [his role] and faithfully to the best of his loyal knowledge and understanding; and that
he will keep confidence of the things and cases that require it. And he swore by
God and to the cross in the rightful way. And he closed the oath by
saying:
"Yes, I swear and amen." And it was signed by the said commissioned judge. Presented in this town
of Casaysay, on the eighteenth of the month of January of the year sixteen forty.

[Signatures] Master Joseph Cabral.
Before me, Alonso Márquez,
notary.

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[on the left margin] Appointment of Agustín Sico, Christian Sangley, as translator.

Master Joseph Cabral, the priest in charge of the district of Balayan
and the commissioned judge for the investigation of the miracle of Our Lady of
Casaysay, said that it was necessary to name a translator of the Sangley language
who would be satisfactory and trustworthy, and who knew the Castilian language, so that
with all faithfulness he could translate the statement or statements
from the Sangleys or witnesses that are necessary and who appear for the said case that concern the Sangley language. And because there is a current need,
and by virtue of the faculty commissioned to me, I choose you, Agustín Sico, Christian Sangley, and name you
as the translator of the said Sangley language for the said investigation
of the said miracle. In order to use and exercise [your appointment]
and first and before all things, you will swear to
use your office well and faithfully. And
the said Agustín Sico, being present, said he accepted the said appointment
of translator for the said investigation of the said miracle and said that
he would carry out [his role] and faithfully apply his knowledge and understanding to everything. And [he said] that he will keep confidence of the things and cases that require it. And he swore by God and to the cross in the proper way. And he closed the oath by saying: "Yes,
I swear and amen." And it was signed by the said commissioned judge. Presented in this town of Casaysay, on the eighteenth of the month of January of the year sixteen forty.

[signatures] Master Joseph Cabral.
Before me, Alonso Márquez,
notary.

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[on the left margin] Testimony

I, Alonso Márquez, public notary of this province of
Balayan, I attest to my faith and give true testimony to those who will see this,
of how yesterday, the eleventh of this month [December] and year,
some Indios brought to this town of Taal a Christian Sangley
named Juan Ynbin, a stonemason who worked in the
church of Our Lady of Caysasay. He is one of the ones who they say was
killed with the other Sangleys in the fort of Bonbon on
Wednesday, on the seventh of this month. He,
through Agustín Sico, Christian Sangley translator, was asked
in my presence and the witnesses named below [and]
the Father Prior Alonso Rodríguez, who is in charge of this convent
of Taal, who requested that he be brought to this town
due to the cause of being alive and being found on Saturday night,
which was the tenth of this month near the stone vault,
where the spring of water, known as Our Lady of Casaysay's,
which is very close to his church. [Ynbin] said what he knows
and remembers that he and other Christian and heathen Sangleys
were taken to be killed. And that he had made confession
with the said Father Prior and entrusted himself very truthfully to Our
Lady of Casasay, asking her to deliver him from death. They took him out
of the said fort with his hands tied and with a neck brace,
as all the other ones, and they took him to the shore that was the place
where they killed them. And they struck him with machetes and pierced him with pikes,
while throughout he called on our Lady until he was left there. And he does not know
if they threw him to the sea or what they did with him. But it appears to him that they
woke him up that night from a dream. And he was at sea,
floating on the water on a white leaf. He does not know what kind of
leaf it is. And he saw a small girl of the size of Our
Lady of Caysasay, very resplendent, and saw her pulling
from the leaf towards the shore. And he says that he saw caimans and other
types of fish, which moved away from the way of that
little girl. And a quarter before dawn he arrived on a shore they call
of Mahayay, which is beneath the little palms that are on the
mountain, before arriving to the town of Sinisian. There he lost his
consciousness and missed the daylight. And after that, he came back to his senses, and saw the same
girl that had taking him out of the waters, and she told him that he had to return to Caysasay
to labor on the work that he had been doing. And he responded to her that he did not
know the way back. And she guided him up to the place where he was in the town of Bonbon,
where he says that he lost consciousness once again. And returning to his senses, he saw again
the said girl, who guided him and took him over to the other side of

of the Bonbon river, without getting wet. And she took him to the resting place where he was found
the said Saturday at night. And [he said] that during the three days and nights he was able to survive
without food or drink, without even caring for his wounds, which
I--the present notary--and witnesses saw. One [wound] is about eight
inches wide [and] in the brain, and the other is about half a foot wide, and
beneath this other one, another deep wound of six inches.
All his nerves were severed, expect the nerves of his throat. They
seem to be caused with machetes and the other two with a
spear, one on his right breast and the other one lower down
on his side. All of them were full of worms, but without any swelling
and without a bad odor [while] the said Sangley, with a good semblance,
responded to everything that was asked, with much coherence
as if he were not injured. And by statement and by request
of the said Priest Prior, I gave the present [statement] with all its
contents to Captain Diego Maldonado Bonal, the principal
mayor of the said province, the second lieutenant Don Juan de Casanova Garay,
and Luis Sánchez. It was written in the town of Taal, on the twelfth of December of the year sixteen thirty nine.

Lorende is my sign [a star of four points with an X]. In
truthful testimony.

[signature] Alonso Márquez,
Public scribe

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{Testimony of a miraculous case that
has happened in the town of Taal}

{License}

Friar Juan Ramírez, the Provincial Rector of this province of our father
Saint Augustine of the Philippines, state that señor Archbishop of Manila has sent an order to Master Joseph Cabral, in charge of the district of Balayan, to
conduct an investigation on the miracle or miracles that have been performed
by Our Lady of Casasay in the district of Taal. And, in case that there are
some religious men who were witnesses or know of the
circumstances or pertinent things that relate to the said miracle, by the present
[statement] I give permission to all of the religious men in this province of Our Father
Saint Augustine, who know about this case, to declare under oath
before the said Master Joseph Cabral everything that they know. And I grant
the necessary authority to the said Master Joseph Cabral so that he can
examine under oath any of the
religious men of our order about this case and the investigations
that will be conducted to offer as proof of the said miracle. Written
in the town of Pasig, on the ninth of January of 1640.

Valeat sic.
[signature] Friar Juan Ramírez, Principal Rector.

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[on the left margin] Decree ordering the questions of the interrogation.
In the town of Casaysay, on the eighteenth day of January of the year
sixteen forty, Master Joseph Cabral, the priest in charge
of the district of Balayan and the commissioned judge for the investigation of the
miracle of Our Lady of Casaysay, said that an interrogation should be ordered
with questions that serve to examine the witnesses who would give their oath [to tell the truth] in the
said investigation, and that the said questions in the interrogation be in the context
of the testimony given about the said miracle. And that they be placed together
with these decrees, so that they are valid. And by this decree it was established and signed.

[signatures] Master Joseph Cabral.
Before me,
Alonso Márquez,
notary.

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By the following questions, the witnesses who swear and make declarations in
this investigation will be asked and examined
about the miracle that Our Lady of Casaysay performed for
Juan Ynbin, Christian Sangley. They should say:
1- If they know Juan Ynbin, Christian Sangley, stonemason, who works in this
sanctuary of Casaysay. And if they have news of the miracle that the Sacred
Virgin of Casaysay performed for him. And if he is a man who leads a good life and customs, they should say so.
2. If they know that in the general uprising of the Sangleys, it was the said Juan Ynbin
who was captured in the said town of Casaysay with the other Sangleys who were
there and taken
to the Fort of Bonbon so that he could be killed, they should say so.
3. If they know that Juan Ynbin, staying in the said fort, with his
hands tied and with a brace on his neck, as all his other peers were,
after making confession, he and the rest, were taken from the said fort,
bound as they were, to the place where they were killed, and [if they know] where it was [that they were killed], they should say so.
4. If they know or if they saw the killing of Juan Ynbin and the
kind of death he was given; they should say so.
5. If they know if after he died, the said Juan Ynbin was placed in a
bangka like his peers, and he was taken to the sea
away from the shore and the entry of the Bonbon River, and if they threw him
in the depth of the sea, with his hands tied and with the neck brace on
his neck, which he bore when they killed him, they should say so.
6. If they know the distance between the place where they threw the said
Juan Ynbin at sea and the place where they found him, and where this was. And if with the said wounds
he was able to naturally go to the vault and spring of water where he was found, they should say so.
7. If they know the time that it took and passed from the time they killed the said Juan Ynbin
until [the time] they found him in the vault, they should say so.
8. If they know that the said wounds and stabbings [suffered] by the said Juan Ynbin
were large, penetrating, and mortal; and if he had the main nerves of his
throat; and if the two wounds or stabbings on his right breast
and side were equally deep; and if the ones and the others

were swollen, with a bad odor or with worms, they should say so.
9. If they know or have seen the said Juan Ynbin walk on his own without
help from anyone, a crutch, or any other instrument, and if he is
out of danger, they should say so.
10. If they know if after they killed Juan Ynbin until the point in which
he was found, they saw on above the vault two resplendent lights,
and [if they know] how many times they saw it and at what time, they say so.
11. Item that is public and well-known, of common knowledge and reputation, and if they are within the rules of the law, they should say so.

Before me,
Alonso Márquez,
notary.

[On the left margin] Juan Inbin's declaration, Christian Sangley

In the town of Casaysay, on the eighteenth of January
of the year sixteen forty, Master Joseph Cabral, priest
in charge of the district of Balayan and Advisory Vicar of this province
of Balayan, and commissioned judge for the investigation of the miracle of Our
Lady of Casaysay by the Illustrious Don Fray Hernando Guerrero,
metropolitan archbishop of these islands and the Council of His Majesty, ordered Juan Ynbin, Christian Sangley, who is currently in this town,
of Casaysay, appear before His Mercy, in order to take his declaration about the said miracle.
And being the named above present, he gave the proper oath
in the name of God Our Lord and the sign of the cross, with Agustín Sico's intervention,
who is a Christian Sangley, [and] the named translator for the given task. And having made it, he promised
to say the truth, and said the account of what he knows and what
happened to him. About three years ago, more or less, he has been serving in
the said town of Casaysay, in the office of stonecutter in the construction of the
stone church of Our Lady of Casaysay, and in the vault that were made likewise
on the [spring of] water, that they call Holy, which is near the said church.
And while he was actually cutting stone to make a fence
in the courtyard of the main building and in the back of the said church, one night,
he was awakened and called while he was sleeping. And then he was capture by Don Juan
de Cabrera, Castilian of the Fort of Bonbon, who tied his hands. And he took this
witness with the rest of the Sangleys who were in the said town to the
Fort of Bonbon, where they later placed a brace on his
neck and with his hands tied, as said before, had him in those prisons
until the next day. At five in the afternoon more or less,
the principal mayor arrived in this province of Balayan, and told his
witness and the other Sangleys with whom he was captured that the Christians
should make confession and the ones who were
heathens [and] wanted to become Christians could be baptized. And that for that end,
the Father Prior of Taal was there. Because they were all going to die later when the time came
because they had the order from the Señor Governor of these islands that they should be killed due to the
uprising of the Sangleys. And so this witness made confession with the
said Priest Prior of Taal, Fray Alonso Rodríguez, and he entrusted himself truthfully
to Our Lady the Virgin Mary of Casaysay, asking her to free him from
death, because he had served her for so long in her church. And [he said] that they took him out
from the said fort, with his neck brace and with his tied hands and they
took him to the shore that was in front of the said fort, which is where

he saw the other Sangleys who were already dead, and who they had taken out from the said
fort before they took him out. And this witness kneeled down and lowered his
head and an Indio with a machete in his hands
struck him with it on his neck, and he does not remember any more. And
this witness thinks that he was awakened that night from a dream, and
he found himself on the waters, on top of a white leaf. And he does not
know what kind of leaf it was. And he saw a small girl, who looked to be the height
of Our Lady of Casaysay, very resplendent, who pulled the
said leaf to the shore. And he saw caimans and other types of fish that
moved away from the path of that girl. And a quarter before
dawn he arrived on the beach they call Mahayahay, which is below
the little palm trees that are in the mountain before arriving to the town of
Sinisián. And, there, he lost consciousness and did not see the day. And
returning to his senses, he saw the same girl that had taking him out of
the water, and she told him to return to Casaysay to labor on the work
he was doing. And this witness responded to her that he did not know
the way. And she guided him to the place where the town of Bonbon was, where this
witness lost his consciousness again. And coming back to his senses, he saw
again the said girl up on high who was guiding him and took him over the river
Bonbon without getting wet. And she brought him to the resting place where he was found. She brought him down the slope that is
on one side of the said vault without any
path because it is on a cliff and heavy with groves. And
there he felt the pain of his wounds, which he had not felt before. And
[he said] that when he arrived at the said vault, he no longer saw the said girl. And
wanting this witness to get up to go to the town that is next to the said
vault he could not move, until an Indio arrived to bath [there]
and he asked him by means of signs for a little bit of that holy water.
[The Indio] gave him some to drink, and he then felt more energy and could
speak. And the said Indio along with another one he called brought this witness
to the said town of Casaysay, where he was found with four wounds, the two big ones
in his neck and the other two on his right breast, and the other one
below on his side. And [he said] that of all the said wounds

that he bore at the fort [when they tried] to kill him, he only felt a blow on his neck. And he thinks that with only that one blow he would have been left
dead, because he did not feel [the pain] of the other ones that were found in his body. And [he said] that
what he said and declared is the truth and by the oath
he took. And he declared to be forty five years old.
And he gave his signature before the commissioned Señor judge according to his custom
and along the said translator.

[Signatures] Master Joseph Cabral.
[Signatures in Chinese] Ma [signed twice]

Before me,
Alonso Márquez,
notary.

[on the left margin] Testimony and proof of the wounds that Juan Ynbin has on his body.

I, Alonso Márquez, named notary of this cause by the
illustrious Señor Don Fray Hernando Guerrero, Metropolitan Archbishop
of these islands and the Council of His Majesty, give proof and truthful
testimony to those who are present, that given that Master
Joseph Cabral, the priest in charge of the district of Balayan and commissioned
judge for the investigation of this miracle, requested the presence of Juan Ynbin,
Christian Sangley in order to take his testimony, as it was done, in effect,
and in the presence of the said commissioned judge, I looked and saw the signs
of the wounds that the said Juan Ynbin has on his body,
two of which are on his neck and the other two, one on

his right breast and the other one below, on his side, and all
four were not swollen. And so that it is valid and by the order of the
said commissioned judge, I made the present [document] in the town of
Casaysay on the eighteenth of the month of January of the year
sixteen hundred forty.

In truthful testimony
[signature] Alonso Márquez,
notary

[on the left margin] Testimony of Captain Diego Maldonado Bonal, principal mayor.

In the town of Casaysay, on the 1640-01-18|eighteenth day of the month of January
of the year sixteen forty]], Master Cabral, the priest in charge
of the district of Balayan and the advisory vicar of this province
of Balayan, and commissioned judge for the investigation of the
miracle of Our Lady of Casaysay, called Captain Diego Maldonado
Bonal, principal mayor and the captain of war of this province of Balayan,
who gave the proper oath in the name of God Our Lord
and the sign of the cross. And after swearing to tell the truth,
and after he was asked the substance of the interrogatory, he said the following:
-To the first question, he said that he knows Juan Inbin, Christian Sangley
for about a month to a month and a half, which is when he saw him in the
town of Taal. [This is] when they brought him wounded, and this he responds.
-To the second question, he said that according to the order that was given by the Lord
Governor and General Captain of these islands, to kill and slit the throats of all
Sangleys, Christians and heathens, in this province. And [he said,] that following this order
Don Juan de Cabrera, Castilian of the Fort of Bonbon, ordered that
all the Sangleys in the said town be captured and taken
to the said Fort of Bonbon where they were to be securely held,
and this he responds.
-To the third question, he said that having arrived to the said fort at
five in the afternoon, more or less, on the seventh
day of the month of December of the past year of seventeen thirty
nine, he asked the priest Fray Alonso Rodríguez, prior of this
district of Taal where the fort was located, to give confession
to the Christian Sangleys and to urge the heathens to turn Christians,
because they were all going to die. And so, after confessing
and baptizing some of the heathens, they took them out of the said fort,
two by two, with their tied hands and with neck braces, and they
took them to the place where they were killed, which is at about the distance of
an harquebus from the fort; and this he responds.
-To the fourth question, he said that he did not recognized Juan
Ynbin [among the dead], but that he believes he was one of them. And [he said] that they were all struck
by the Indios who were there. [They were struck] separately, on the necks

with the machetes that they were holding. And some [Sangleys]
knelt down to be killed, and if the Indios felt that
there was any one who was not fully dead from the machete blows, they had
other indios spear them until they were
dead. And this witness, in order to be more fully satisfied and fulfill the content
of the said order, went to the said location and found all of them lying down. Because
he thought that they were all dead. The number of them was
twenty nine, the same number of the ones that were alive when they
left the fort; and this he responds.
-To the fifth question, this witness says that he did not see them embark in the bangkas,
but the said Castilian ordered them to embark them in bangkas and with
the neck braces to throw them in the depth of the sea, and far
the shore of the Bonbon river; and this is what he responds.
-To the sixth question, this witness said that he thinks that the distance
between the place where the Sangleys were thrown into the water and
the town of Casaysay where he was told Juan Ynbin was found is by land
a fourth and a half of a league; and by water a fourth of a
league. And this witness thinks that the said Juan Ynbin, whose
deep wounds this witness saw--because the two on his neck showed
to have his main nerves cut, because from the top and bottom
one could see that the nerves looked like canine teeth, and the wounded bone was
split. Because both [wounds] were wide and one, in particular, and he thinks
that the other two that he had on top of the right breast and side were miraculous
because this witness thought that they reached the bottom of his belly--and could
not be naturally alive without the special help of God Our Lord and his blessed mother; and this is what he responds.
-To the seventh question, he said that the length of time that passed from the
killing of the said Sangleys until he was brought to the town of Taal
there was a period of four days; and this is what he responds.
-To the eighth question, he said that he stands by what he declared
in the sixth [question] of this declaration. And that in terms of the wounds

they were swollen, but without a bad odor. This witness saw three or four times
how [the wounds] were being healed, and it was only at the
beginning that it had worms and, then, he didn't have them; and this is what he responds.
-To the ninth question, he said that he saw in the town of Taal and in this one
of Casaysay the said Juan Ynbin walking without the assistance
of anyone and without any instrument of support. And this witness thinks that the said Juan
Ynbin is not longer in danger; and this he responds.
-To the tenth question, he said that he doesn't know; and this he responds.
-To the eleventh question, he said that everything he said is public knowledge and widely known, everything he has said is public and well known, of common knowledge and reputation, and the truth under the oath that he
has taken, and within the rules of the law. And he declared to be of
the age of fifty one; and he signed with his name before the commissioned
judge.

[Signatures] Master Joseph Cabral.
Diego Maldonado Bonal.
Ante mí,
Alonso Márquez,
notary.

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[on the left margin] Testimony by Ambrosio Manalig.

In the town of Casaysay, on the eighteenth day of the month
of January of sixteen forty, Master Joseph
Cabral, the priest in charge of the district of Balayan and the commissioned judge
for the investigation of the miracle of Our Lady of Casaysay, requested that
an Indio appear before him with the intersession of Thomás Dimaligalig,
a translator. [The Indio] said his name was Ambrosio Manalig and that he was from the town
of Taal and at the time a soldier in the fort of Bonbon. [He]
gave the proper oath in the name of God Our Lord and with the sign
of the cross. And having done this, he promised to say the truth. And being asked the content of the interrogation, he said the following:
-To the first question, he said that he knows Juan Ynbing [sic], Christian Sangley,
stonecutter, since about eight months ago, in these parts, because he saw him working in his job in
the said fort and in the church and santuary in this town of Casaysay.
And he has heard of the miracle that Our Lady performed for him, and during
the said time he has known Juan Ynbin, he has held him and
holds him as a man of good life and customs; and this is what he responds.
-To the second question, this witness says, that in the company of Don Juan
de Cabrera and other Indios, on one night they captured the said Juan
Ynbin in this town of Casaysay and the other Sangleys who were
there. And they were all taking with their hands tied to the said
fort, which was executed by the said Castilian, as it was
ordered to him by the principal mayor of the said province of Balayan;
and this is what he responds.
-To the third question, he said that, having come to the said fort, the said
Castilian, with the said Juan Ynbin and his other fellows, put on each
one a neck brace, tied their hands; and at the said
fort they took them two by two to the place where they
killed them. [This place] is at the distance of an arquebus shot from the said fort; and this is what he responds.
-To the fourth question, this witness said that he and the other Indio soldiers
of the said fort were chosen by the Castilian to
leave the fort and be at the place where they were to
kill the said Sangleys. And this witness was given the task to kill the said
Juan

Ynbin, who having arrived at the said location and while kneeling down,
he humbly lowered his head, and his witness, with a large machete
that he sharpened for the purpose, struck him with its blade twice
in his neck. With the effect that, from the first [blow], the said Juan
Ynbin fell to the ground, and to this witness, it seemed that he was dead. Because
the wounds were mortal. And especially the first [blow] left him with
an opening larger than half foot, which revealed that more than
half the bone of his neck was split. And the other [wound], a bit above his
neck, was only slightly smaller than the first one. And the wound that
the said Juan Ynbin has on top of his right breast, was also from
[on the margin: watch out] the blow that this witness gave him with the tip of his machete, which was double bladed,
from the force of his blow. And the fourth wound
that the subject suffered on his right side, he does not know which Indio
gave it to him, but [he knows] that there were two Indio soldiers in the said
fort spearing the said Sangleys, who would fall to the ground from the
machete blows; and this is what he responds.
-To the fifth question, this witness said that after carrying out
the order given by the said Castilian, of killing the said Sangleys,
and having finished the said killings, it seems to this witness,
that of twenty nine Sangleys that died, whom he
counted and whom the principal mayor
saw lying down on the ground because he was present during the execution.
And this witness went to the said fort to rest, so he does not know
in what manner they threw them into the depth of the sea;
and this is what he responds.
-To the sixth question, this witness said that, according to what other
soldiers of the said fort said to him, they had put the
dead Sangleys in bangkas to throw them into the sea. And from
the place where the said Juan Ynbin was found in the vault of the sacred
water in this town of Casaysay, this witness thinks that by land,
from one end to the other, there must be a distance of about half league

more or less. And this witness thinks that given that he
left him with such deep wounds, it would be impossible that with them
he would be able to make it to the vault and spring on his own
where he was found. And neither does he know, heard said, or be persuaded
that he would be brought to such resting place, if it were not by the work of Our Most Holy Lady
of Casaysay; and this is what he responds.
-To the seventh question, he says that what he knows is that one day, on a Wednesday
in the afternoon, which is when this witness killed the said Juan Ynbin, and
later the following Sunday in the morning, he heard a lot of people say
that they had found the subject in the vault and spring of Casaysay;
and this is what he responds.
-To the eighth question, he said that he goes back to what he said and
declared in the fourth and sixth questions, and that he does not know
anything else asked in this question; and this is what he responds.
-To the ninth question, he said that he has seen the said Juan
Ynbin walking on his own without the assistance of another person
and without a staff. And it seems to this witness that he is out of danger, and this is what he responds.
-To the tenth question, he said that he does not know; and this is what he responds.
-To the eleventh question, he said that everything he has said is public knowledge, well-known, in the public opinion and truth, subject to the oath he had made,
and without breaking the rules of the law. He could not say his age. He looked
by his appearance to be of forty years old, more or less. And he signed it according to his custom,
with the said judge and translator.

[signatures] Master Joseph Cabral.
[signature in Tagalog Baybayin: Ambrosio Manalig
Thomás Dimaligalig.
Before me,
Alonso Márquez,
notario.

[on the left margin] Testimony: Matheo Omali.

In the town of Casaysay on the eighteenth day of the month of
January of the year sixteen thirty four [errata], Master Joseph
Cabral, the priest in charge of the district of Balayan and the judge commissioned
for the investigation of the said miracle, ordered an Indio to appear before him,
who through the said translator said to be named Matheo
Omali, and a native of the town of Taal, and currently a soldier of the
fort of Bonbon, of whom a proper oath was given
in the name of God Our Lord and with the sign of the cross. And
having done it, swore to tell the truth. And having asked him the
content of the interrogation, he said the following:
-To the first question, this witness said the he knows Juan Ynbin,
Christian Sangley, stonecutter, since eight months ago. He saw him
work in the fort on the shore of Bonbon and in this
church of Our Lady of Casaysay, and has heard of the
miracle that Our Most Holy Lady used with the mentioned subject, who during
the time he has known him, he has seen him as a men of good life and customs;
and this is what he responds.
-To the second question, he said that don Juan de Cabrera,
Castilian of the Fort of Bonbon, had the order from the principal mayor in this
province to capture all of the Christian Sangleys and the non-Christians
in this town of Casaysay, and the trickster Sangleys that were
next to him, and the other ones who could be found; and that captured and
securely held, they be taken to the said fort. And at the time when the said
Castilian took them, this witness was in the fort and he saw them bring to it
the said Juan Ynbin, with his hands tied, and the other Sangleys;
and this he responds.
-To the third question, he said that the next day
Juan Ynbin and his other fellows being captured in the said fort, with his
hands tied and with neck braces on each one, the Prior
Father of this district of Taal took confessions from Christian Sangleys and baptized
some heathens who had turned Christians. And having finished

what was said above, the said principal mayor who was likewise at the time inside
the said fort ordered that the Sangleys be taken out two by two,
tied up, to the part of the location where they had to be killed. And likewise,
he ordered this witnessed to do so and [told him] not to let them come out all
together, but two by two. Because he was the guard watching over the entrance to
the fort, he was not able to see where
they took the said Sangleys to kill them; and this is what he responds.
-To the fourth question, he said that he does not know; and this is what he responds.
-To the fifth question, he says that after the said Sangleys were killed, they
counted twenty nine who had been inside the
fort and who came out of the entrance. And this witness, who guarded
it, counted them. The said Castilian withdrew him [from the fort] so that with the other
Indios, he would put them in the bangkas where the said dead Sangleyes were
put together. And arriving this witness and the other Indios to the part where they had
fell to the ground, with their hands tied and the same neck braces on their
necks, two Indios carried a Sangley and
threw them across the bangkas, and among them the said Juan
[on the left margin: be careful] Ynbin, who this witness especially recognized. They went rowing with the said
bangkas to the sea following the path in front of the shore of the Bonbon river
which has more than fifteen fathoms in depth, with the tide and wind going opposite of
the shore. And it took a lot of strength to get the said dead bodies into the
sea. [They] first would take them from the bangkas and, then, they would throw them into the sea.
And among them was the said Juan Ynbin. And to give more details, this witness remembers
that he, in order to throw him into the sea, took him by his neck brace and his partner
by the feet, having him fall [into the water] head first; and this is what he responds.
-To the sixth question, he said that the distance between the place where this witness threw the sad Juan Ynbin into the sea to the vault and spring of water
where he appeared in this town of Casaysay, it seems to this witness, could take about one
hour from one place to the other, if the person walked at an ordinary pace; and by water,
a bit less. And in terms of Juan Ynbin's wounds

this witness saw them, when they were being healed in the town of Taal. [There were]
four that were very deep. And it seemed to this witness that
with [the injury] of just one of them, one would not be able to be alive or walk,
and much less make it all the way to the place where he was
found, unless it were with the special help from God Our Lord, and by the intercession
of his blessed mother; and this he responds.
-To the seventh question, he said that it was a Wednesday in the afternoon
when he and his partner named Diego Mospatag, soldier of the said fort,
threw this witness into the sea, and on following
Sunday he heard that they had found the night before
the said Juan Ynbin in the said vault and spring of holy water
in this town of Casaysay; and this he responds.
-To the eighth question, he said that he saw, as he said, the four
wounds that he has on his body the said Juan Ynbin when they were
healing them in the said town of Taal, and that they were deep and
mortal. And on his neck he had his main nerves cut off,
and that they were not swollen and did not have a bad odor, but had a lot of
fat worms; and this is what he responds.
-To the ninth question, he said that he saw the said Juan Ynbin
in the town of Taal and in this one of Casaysay walk on his feel
and without anyone who could help him and without anything like a staff. And it
seems to this witness that the said Juan Ynbin is not in
danger from his wounds; and this is what he responds.
-To the tenth question, he said that he has heard a lot of people say
that from the time after they killed the said Juan Ynbin until the time
they found him, they saw above the vault two lights that were
resplendent at night and at odd times, and this happened sometimes;
and this is what he responds.
-To the eleventh question, he said that everything he has said is public

and well-known, of common knowledge and reputation, and the truth under the oath that he has taken, which he confirmed. And has he followed
the rules of the law. He was not able to say his age. He looks
by his appearance to be thirty seven more or less; and did not sign it because
he said he did not know how. It was signed by the said judge and translator.

[signatures] Master Joseph Cabral.
Thomás Dimaligalig.
Ante mí,
Alonso Márquez,
notario.

[on the left margin] Testimony: Diego Magpagtag.

In the town of Casaysay, on the nineteenth day of the month
of January of the year sixteen forty, the said commissioned judge
to gather more proof for the investigation of the miracle of Our Lady of Casaysay
had appear before him Diego Magpagtag, the witness cited by Matheo Umali in his testimony,
who through the said translator gave his proper oath
in the name of God Our Lord and the sign of the cross. And having done so,
he promised to say the truth. And having been asked the contents
of the interrogation, said the following:
-To the first question, he said he knows Juan Ynbin, Christian Sangley,
stonemason who he has known for more than two year in these parts, because he saw him work

in the construction of the church of Our Lady of Casaysay of this town,
being this witness then the accountant of Father Fray Pedro Mexía, who was the prior
of this district of Taal. And he heard the news of the miracle that
Juan Ynbin received from Our Lady of Casaysay. And he has always thought that
the said Sangley is a man who has a good life and customs; and this is what he responds.
-To the second question, he said that being this witness in the fort of Bonbon,
in the courtyard for the soldiers, Don Juan de Cabrera, Castilian of the said fort,
arrived at an odd time of the night, with a large number of Sangleys,
Christians and heathens, whom he had captured by the order of the principal mayor of this province, in this town of Casaysay and other parts. And having finished this witness
his shift guarding [the post], he came down to see the said captured Sangleys, and among them he saw
and recognized the said Juan Ynbin, who had his hands tied as well as the other
Sangleys who were with him; and this is what he responds.
-To the third question, he said that the next day, he saw the said Juan Ynbin and his other fellows captive in the said fort, and each one
with his neck brace on his neck and with their hands tied. He saw that the
said Juan Ynbin gave confession to the Prior Father of this district of Taal,
and the other Christian Sangleys who were captured and other heathens, many
of whom got baptized. And, then, the said principal mayor, who was at the
time inside the fort, ordered to take them out, two by two to the place
where they were killed. It seems to this witness, that it was at the distance of the shot of an arquebus from the said fort (with their hands tied and with the neck braces on their necks; and this is what he responds.
-To the fourth question, he said that he did not see the killing of the said Juan
Ynbin, or the death they gave him. Because this witness was busy at the time
escorting out the said Sangleys from the fort. [This was done] two by two,
with their hands tied, and giving them to the other soldiers who would
receive them and take them to the place where they would kill them; and this is what
he responds.
-To the fifth question, he said that after the death of the said Sangleys, who were in total
twenty nine, and whom this witness saw lying down on the ground

and whom the said principal mayor was counting, this witness already knew
as did the others that by the order of the said Castilian, they had to load in two
bangkas that were there the dead and bleeding Sangleys.
[On the left margin: Be careful] And among the ones that this witness and his partner had to load in their
bangka was the said Juan Ynbin, whom he recognized. And between
the two, one taking him by the feet and the other by his neck brace, they would place them
in the said bangka until they could fit as many as they could [in the said
bangka]. And the one in which this witness put the said Juan Ynbin was small, and
so he could not fit in it nobody else other than the said Juan Ynbin and [the body] of another
Sangley. And rowing to the sea and away from the shore and mouth of the River
Bonbon, this witness and the said partner, threw the two [Sangleys]
to the sea, which according to this witness, had more than fifteen fathoms in depth.
At that point, the tides and winds were going against the shore, which forcefully
put them in the said winds and tides very far away from the part and place where this
witness threw Juan Ynbin into the water. When the witness saw him after he threw him into the said sea, he [saw] that he sank, as if
he were a piece of stone. And the same thing happened with the other deceased Sangley,
and they did not see them anymore; and this is what he responds.
-To the sixth question, he said that he thinks that from the district where
they threw Juan Ynbin into the sea up to the place where he was found in the
vault and the spring of Casaysay, a person walking at a normal pace would
take by land about one hour; and by river a little bit less. And [he said] that with the
woulds that the said Juan Ynbin had on his body, which this witness saw
when they were healing them in the town of Taal (because he had not seen them before
when they threw him into the sea, because they loaded him face-up and at night
and did not pay attention to the wounds that the said Juan Ynbin had and the other
Sangleys), and as he said, he saw the wounds when they were healing them and they
were very deep and mortal. And this witness thinks that with only one of
them a person could die, and that it was impossible that he could
live naturally or walk to the resting place where he was found without
special assistance from God Our Lord, by the intersession of his

precious and blessed mother; and this is what he responds.
-To the seventh question, he said that the time when
they killed the said Juan Ynbin and when this witness threw him to the water, was
as he said on Wednesday, and he head that the following Sunday in the morning
he was found in the said vault and water spring of Our Lady
of Casaysay; and this is what he responds.
-To the eighth question, he said that when this witness saw in the town of Taal
how they healed his wounds that the said Juan Ynbin had, he saw as he said
that they were big, deep, and mortal, in particular the two that he had
in the brain because he had his nerves were cut off, and the other two he had
on his breast and right side were equally deep. And all
four were not swollen and did not have a bad odor, but they had many
worms; and this is what he responds.
-To the ninth question, he said that he saw the said Juan Ynbin
walk on his feet freely, without any impediment and without the help of a person,
or much less of a staff. And it seems to this witness that the said Juan
Ynbin is healthy and out of danger from the said wounds; and this is what he responds.
-To the tenth question, he said that he does not know; and this is what he responds.
-To the eleventh question, he said that everything he has said is public knowledge and widely known,
publicly said and renown, and the truth under the oath that he has taken
and without disobeying the rules of the law. He could not say his age.
By his appearance, he looked like he was thirty six years old. And he did not sign it because
he said he did not know how, and that he is a native of the town of Taal, and at the present time a soldier of the
fort of Bonbon. The said judge and translator signed it.

[signatures] Master Joseph Cabral.
Thomás Dimaligalig.
Before me, Alonso Márquez,
notario.

[on the left margin] Testimony: Juan Mamaghoncal.

In the town of Casaysay, on the nineteenth of the month
of January of the year sixteen forty, Master Joseph
Cabral, the priest in charge of the district of Balayan and the commissioned judge
for the investigation of the miracle of Our Lady of Casaysay, requested that
an Indio appear before him with the intervention of Thomas Dimaligalig,
the translator. He said his name was Juan Masongcal and was a native of the town
of Balangon, a visita of Taal, and at the present time, a soldier at the
fort of Bonbon. He gave the proper oath in the name of
God Our Lord and the sign of the cross. And having done this
he promised to tell the truth. And to the questions they asked in this
interrogation, he said the following:
-To the first question, he said that he knows Juan Ynbin, a Christian
Sangley, a stonecutter, who he has seen work in this area for about eight months
in the fort of Bonbon and in the church of Our
Lady of Casaysay in this town, exercising his job as a stonecutter. And he has heard of
the miracle that the Virgin Our Lady of Casaysay has performed for him.
And in the time that he has said and he has known the said Juan Ynbin,
he has known him as a man of a good life and customs. And this is what he responds.
-To the second question, he said that the main mayor of this province of
Balayan, Don Juan de Cabrera, the Castilian of the fort
of Bonbon, ordered him to capture all the Sangleys, Christians and heathens in this
town of Casaysay and others who were in the nearby area. And among
the Indio soldiers who the said Castilian took with him for the said
effect was this witness one of them. And so they arrived in this town and caught
in it the said Juan Ynbin and all the other Sangleys who were there.
And with their hands tied, they took them to the fort of Bonbon. And this is what he responds.
-To the third question, he said that having been captured the said Juan Ynbin
and the other Sangleys in the said fort of Bonbon, each one with a
neck brace and his hands tied, this witness came out of the said
fort in order to start killing the said Sangleys in the place that was indicated,

which is probably at the distance of an arquebus shot from the said fort. And there, as
they were going out, two by two, this witness and other soldiers under command and
under the orders of the said Castilian started killing the said Sangleys.
And although this witness did not kill the said Juan Ynbin, he saw that he was
killed by Ambrosio Manalig, a soldier of the said fort, who was
next to this witness and who fell dead on the ground, in the like that it
seems to this witness, that all were twenty nine. They
were on the ground and taken for dead when they were counted by
the main mayor of the said province, who was there to execute
the above mentioned. And this is what he responds.
-To the fourth question, as he said in the earlier question
he saw that Juan Ynbin was killed by the hand of the said Ambrosio
Manalig, who struck him with a big machete, which he placed on his
neck, which the said Juan Ynbin was first kneeling down.
And this is what he responds.
-To the fifth question, he said that after the said Juan Ynbin was dead
along with the other Sangleys. He saw how he was placed in a
bangka along with another Sangley whom were taken from the shore of
Bonbon. And this witness was on the beach until all of the
dead Sangleys were embarked. They had neck braces and their hands tied,
which is how they were killed. And this is what he responds.
-To the sixth question, he said that it seems to this witness that from where
they [the said Juan Ynbin and the other Sangleys ] were thrown into the water up to the [location of the] vault where they found him, it takes about an hour to walk
on land at the normal pace of a person. And by water,
a bit less. And in terms of the injuries that the said Juan
Ynbin had, this witness saw them later in this town of Casaysay,
when they took him to Taal to heal them. And since they [the wounds] were all very
deep and only one of them should have been sufficient to kill him, it is not
possible for this witness to think that Juan Ynbin could have walked naturally
own his own to the vault and spring of water where he was found, without

the help of God Our Lord and by the intercession of his previous mother.
And this is what he responds.
-To the seventh question, he said that when they killed the said Juan Ynbin
and the other Sangleys, it was a Wednesday night. And on the following Sunday in the
morning, he heard this witness say that they had found and seen the previous night
the said Juan Ynbin in the vault and the holy water of this town of
Casaysay. And this is what he responds.
-To the eighth question, he said that, as he said, he saw how they cured his four
wounds that the said Juan Ynbin had on his body and the two that he had
in his brain. One was larger than the other, both deadly because
the nerves were cut and visible. And all four were not swollen,
did not have a bad smell, but they had worms. And this is what he responds.
-To the ninth question, he said that he saw the said Juan Ynbin many times
walking on his own, without anyone helping him and without a staff. And that he
thinks, according the above said and his good disposition, that he is out of
danger. And this is what he responds.
-To the tenth question, he said that he does not know. And this is what he responds.
-To the eleventh question, he said that everything he said is public and well-known, of common knowledge and reputation, and the truth under the oath
that he has given,
and within the rules of the law. And he declared to be
of forty eight years old. And he signed it according to his custom in front of the
said commissioned judge and translator.

[signatures] Master Joseph Cabral.
[in Tagalog Baybayin: Juan Mamaghoncal ]
Thomás Dimaligalig.
Before me,
Alonso Márquez,
notary.

[on the left margin] Testimony by Alonso Calatan
In the town of Casaysay, on the nineteenth day of the month
of January of the year sixteen forty, Master Joseph Cabral,
the priest in charge of the district of Balayan and the assigned vicar of this province of Balayan and the judge commissioned to the investigation of the
miracle of Our Lady of Casaysay, had Don Alonso
Calatang, lieutenant of the Castilan of the fort of Bonbon. And he said to be a native
of the town of Taal and through the said translator,
he took the proper oath in the name of God Our Lord
and the sign of the cross. And having done this, he promised to say the truth.
And having been asked the contents of his interrogation, he said the following:
-To the first question, he said that he knows Juan Ynbin, Christian Sangley,
stonecutter, for about three year in these parts. This witness said that he has seen him
work in this job, both in the fort of Bonbon and in the Church of
Our Lady of Casaysay in this town. And he has heard about the
miracle that Our Lady performed for him. And during the entire time that this witness has known
the said Juan Ynbin, he has seen him and considered him to be a man of good life and customs. And this is what he responds.
-To the second question, he said that following the order of Captain Diego
Maldonado Bonal, principal mayor of this province of Balayan, sent to Don Juan de Cabrera, Castilian of the said fort of Bonbon, to capture
all the Sangleys--Christians and heathens--in this town of Casaysay, as well as the others
found in the surroundings. And he was among the soldiers this
Castilian conscripted for such deed. And so, in the company of the
said Castilian, he came to the said town. And in it, they captured the said
Juan Ynbin in his home as well as other Sangleys. And captured and
with their tied hands, they took him to the fort of Bonbon. And this is what he responds.
-To the third question, he said that being the said Juan Ynbin in the
said fort, with his tied hands and a brace on his neck, and in
the same way his peers, this witness saw that the said Juan Ynbin
gave confession to the father priest friar Alonso Rodríguez, the prior of this district
of Taal. And the other Christian Sangleys, and some

heathens, who were baptized the said Father Prior who
was then found in the said fort and who was there for the purpose. And after their
confessions, they were taken out of such fort, with their tied hands and with a
brace on their necks, to the place where they were killed. [A place] that
was far away from the said fort, at the distance of an arquebus shot more or less. And this is what he responds.
-To the fourth question, this witness said that he was on top of the wall of the
said fort when he saw and recognized the said Juan Ynbin, who with the said brace
on his neck and his tied hands, with a mate in the same situation,
arrived to the place where they were killing the other Sangleys. And he said that the
said Juan Ynbin kneeled down and lowered his head. And an Indio soldier of
the said fort, one who was chosen to kill the
said Sangleys, struck him with a machete that he had in his hands two
blows in his brain. And then, he fell to the ground. And this is what he responds.
-To the fifth question, he said that after all the Sangleys were killed,
who were twenty nine in total, the said Castilian ordered this witness, as his lieutenant
to go with some soldiers to the place where they had the said dead Sangleys.
And that he should stay there and have them embark in the said bangkas there for that purpose. And
that they should taken them and throw them [at sea] away from the shore
and the mouth of the River of Bonbon. And so, this witness stayed there and did not leave the said post until he saw all the said dead Sangleys embark. And
among them was the said Juan Ynbin. And this witness counted them
in order and following [the order of] the Castilian, he had the said
twenty nine Sangleys discharged in an area of more than fifteen
fathoms in depth. And this is what the said soldiers did with the [Sangleys in the] said bangkas,
with the force the current of the tides and winds going away from the shore. It seems to
this witness that according to what was said above, that the said dead bodies ended up very far away at sea. And this is what he responds.
-And to the sixth question, this witness said that he thinks that from the point where
he gave the order to dispatch the said Sangleys at sea up to the point where they said
that the said Juan Ynbin was found, there must be a distance of half a league by land;
and by the river a little bit less. And that he did not pay attention to the wounds

suffered by the said Juan Ynbin until the time he saw how they were healing them in the town
of Taal. The four wounds were fatal, and it was impossible,
he thinks, to be able to live with even one of them. And so, it was impossible for the said
Juan Ynbin to go to the vault and the holy water of Our Lady of
Casaysay without her help. And this is what he responds.
-To the seventh question, he said that it was on a Wednesday in the evening when they killed
the said Sangleys. And on the following day, Thursday, this witness came with some of the soldiers of the said fort on the order of the Castilian
to keep watch of this church of Our Lady of Casaysay. And that on
Saturday at night of the said week, after midnight,
this witness learned that the said Juan Ynbin was in the said vault and
holy water in the said town. And at around that time, this witness went with the other
Indios. And he found him in this resting place. And a principal named
Don Juan Magtangcab, who resides in the district of
Balayan, and was at the time he was playing novenas to Our Lady,
was there first and he brought him to his house. And on Sunday morning,
this witness told the Father Prior [about Juan Ynbin], who
ordered him to take him to the town of Taal, and this is what he did. And this is what he responds.
-To the eighth question, he said that the said Sunday in which he took
to the town of Taal the said Juan Ynbin, the said Father Prior tried to have his
wounds healed, which were four. And two of them were in his
brain; one on top of the other. And the larger one, and both were deep, had their main nerves cut and the other two on his right breast and side were likewise
deep. And neither of them were swollen nor had a bad odor, but
they had big worms. And this is what he responds.
-And to the ninth question, he said that he saw the said Juan Ynbin walking,
without the help of anyone and without any tool that supported him. And this
witness thinks that the said Juan Ynbin is
out of danger. And this is what he responds.
-To the tenth question, this witness said that he did not see lights on

on the vault, but he heard from many of his Indios during the days in which
he was guarding the said town, that they had seen lights and that there were
two on top of the stone vault of the holy water of this
town, at different times of the night. And this is what he responds.
-To the eleventh question, he said that everything he has said is public and
well-known, of common knowledge and reputation, and the truth, as he is under the
oath he took and within the rules of the law. And he said
to be thirty five years old. And he signed it with his name
in Castilian, in front of the said commissioned judge and
his translator.

[signatures] Master Joseph Cabral.
D. Alonso Calatang.
Thomás Dimaligalig.
Before me,
Alonso Márquez,
notary.

[on the left margin] Testimony: The ensign Don Juan de Casanova Garay.
In the said town of Casaysay, on the day and month of the referred above,
Master Joseph Cabral, the priest in charge of the district of Balayan
and commissioned judge for the investigation of the miracle of Our Lady
of Casaysay, had appear before him, the ensign Don Juan de Casanova
Garay, resident of the town of Taal, who gave the proper oath
in the name of God Our Lord and the sign of the cross.

And having been asked the contents of the interrogation, he said the following:
-To the first question, he said that he has known Juan Inbin, Sangley,
stonecutter, for about four years, which is how long this witness has resided in this
province. And he has heard the news of the miracle that he received from
Our Most Holy Virgin and Our Lady of the sanctuary of Casaysay. And in the
said time that he has known him, though a heathen, he was a quiet
and peaceful man, who had no vices. And after he became a
Christian, he has seen him follow its [Christian] obligations without being forced to
do so. And this is what he responds.
-To the second question, he said that Captain Diego Maldonado Bonal,
the main mayor of this province of Balayan, received the order from the Señor governor and the General Captain
of these islands to kill all the Christian and heathen Sangleys
of this province. And for such purpose, he ordered Don Juan
de Cabrera, Castilian of the fort of Bonbon, to capture the Sangleys,
Christians and heathens, who were in the said town of Casaysay and their
surroundings. And so, the mentioned [witness] did [what was told]. And this witness heard that
one of them had been Juan Ynbin. And this is what he responds.
-To the third question, this witness said that he has heard from the Castilian
of the said fort of Bonbon and from the Indian soldiers who were
there to kill the said Sangleys who were captive in the fort, how the
Christians and some [recently] baptized heathens had made confession. And
that, they were all taken out with their tied hands and with a brace on their
necks from the said fort, two by two, to the place where they were
killing them. And the said fort was at a distance of the shot of an arquebus. And this is what he responds.
-To the fourth question, he said that he also heard the said
Castilian and other Indios, soldiers of the said fort, how they knew they were
killing the said Juan Ynbin. And they gave him machete blows in his
brain and pierced his body with spears. And this is what he responds.
-To the fifth question, he said that he has also heard from the mentioned
persons in the question above that, after he
died the said Juan Ynbin, was put in a bangka, in the same fashion as

his other mates, and they took him on board to a long distance from
the shore and sandbank of the Bonbon River. And they threw him to the sea where it was fifteen fathoms in depth, with his tied hands and with the same
brace on his neck, that he had when he was killed. And this is what he responds.
-To the sixth question, he said that according what it was told to him, from the point
where they threw Juan Ynbin in the sea to the stone vault where
the water spring called "Holy" is--the place where his witness has heard that the Most Holy Virgin
appeared long ago--the distance is between a fourth and
half a league by land. [I say so] as a person who has walked from the said sandbank
to the said site many times by land. And it is a bit less going by the river. And
this witness thinks it is impossible that [Juan Ynbin could have naturally survived] with the four mortal wounds (given that each
one of them [was mortal]). And he has seen the said Juan Ynbin when they were
healing them [the wounds] and after they healed them. And [he thinks] that it was impossible to
survive a single of the said wounds. [One of the wounds] was in his brain and had the length of
one half a foot and it was deep, which had cracked the back of his neck. [As a result] his neck was unsteady and he used his throat, which was the only part that was fine, to [try] to
hold it up. On top of this wound, he saw another that had cut all the
veins and nerves of the head. He believes, without doubt, that
it would be impossible heal them by humans using medicine or surgery.
And so, these two [wounds] and the two piercings, one on top of his right breast,
which reached the nipple (and the other
wound was lower below on the same side) was equally mortal. [This] serves
as infalible proof to this witness of the miracle that the Most Holy Virgin
performed for the said Juan Ynbin. And this is what he responds.
-To the seventh question, he said that he knows and has proof that the said Juan
Ynbin and the other Sangleys who were captured in the said fort of Bonbon
were killed on a Wednesday in the evening, which was on the seventh
of the month of December of the past year of sixteen thirty
nine. And it was on a Saturday night of the said week that he was found,

according to what they say, in the said holy waters of the said
town of Casaysay. And on the following Sunday, he was taken to the said town
of Taal. And this is what he responds.
-To the eighth question, he said that he stands by what he has said and
already declared in the sixth question. And regarding this, he is aware of it and he saw the said wounds on the said Sunday before they [the wounds] were
cured. [And] they appeared to be fresh wounds, without swelling
or any change. They only had a lot of worms, but
without a bad odor or weakness on the part of the said subject, Juan Ynbin. Rather,
he was conscious and in good spirits, responding to everything they asked. And he
would smile as if he did not have any wounds. And as this witness saw
in a number of occasions how they healed the wounds to the said Juan Ynbin, he never saw
them swollen or with a bad odor. And this is what he responds.
-And to the ninth question, he said that he has seen in the town of Taal
and in this one of Casaysay Juan Ynbin walk on his own, without the
help of anyone, and wagging his head from one side to the other. And he is
out of danger.
-To the tenth question, he said that he has heard say many times from a lot of
Indios from this town of Casaysay that after they killed the said Juan
Ynbin and was found in the said vault, they saw above it
two resplendent lights at unexpected times of the night. And this is what he responds.
-To the eleventh question, he said that everything he has said is public and well known, of common knowledge and reputation, and the truth under the oath
that he has given, and within the rules of the law. And he declared to be of
the age of thirty eight. And he signed it with his name in front of the commissioned
judge.
[signatures] Master Joseph Cabral.
Don Juan de Casanova Garay.
Before me,
Alonso Márquez,
notary.

[on the left margin] Testimony of Juan de Cabrera, Castilian

In the town of Casaysay, on the nineteenth of the
month of January of the year sixteen forty, Master Joseph
Cabral, the priest in charge of the district of Balayan and assigned vicar
of this province and the commissioned judge for the investigation
of the miracle of Our Lady of Casaysay, had appear before him Don
Juan de Cabrera, Castilian of the fort of Bonbon, fluent in the
Castilian language, so that he did not require a translator. He gave the
proper oath in the name of God Our Lord and the
sign of the cross. And having been asked the contents of this interrogation,
said the following:
-To the first question, he said that he has known Juan Ynbin, Christian Sangley,
stonemason, for more than two years in these parts, where he worked in his occupation in
the fort of Bonbon and in the sanctuary of Our Lady
of Casaysay. And he has heard of the news of the miracle that Our Most Holy Virgin
of Casaysay performed for him. And all of the time that this witness has known
him, he knows him as a man of good life and customs. And this is what he responds.
-To the second question, he said that having the Captain
Diego Maldonado Bonal, the main mayor of this province of Balayan,
received the order from the Señor Governor and the General Captain of these islands to kills all of the
Christian and heathen Sangleys in the said province for their general
uprising, he sent his witness to capture all of the Sangleys, Christians and
heathens, found in this town of Casaysay and its surroundings. And this witness
arrived with some Indio soldiers to the said fort to the said town.
And in it, he captured Juan Ynbin in his house, and the other
Sangleys he found. And captured and with their hands tied, he took them to the said
fort. And this is what he responds.
-To the third question, he said that as he being captured in the said fort
of Bonbon, the said Juan Ynbin, with his hands tied and with
the brace on his neck in the same fashion of the other Sangleys,
the said main mayor arrived to execute the said order and asked

the Father Priest Fray Alonso Rodríguez, the prior of this district of
Taal, to make confession to the said Christian Sangleys and to the heathen ones who
wanted to become Christians offer baptism, because they were all going to die soon. And
after they were finished confessing and baptizing some heathens, they were
all taken out from the such fort, and tied up as they were before,
to the place where they were killed, which was about the distance of the shot of an arquebus
from the said fort. And this is what he responds.
-To the fourth question, he said that he did not recognize the
said Juan Ynbin when he was killed, because this witness was at the door of
the said fort discharging the Sangleys two
by two, to the place where they were being killed. And although
he did not see the death given to the said Juan Ynbin, he heard from the
soldier who killed him, named Ambrosio Manalig, that he had given him two
machete blows in his brain, one on top of the other. And this is what he responds.
-To the fifth question, he said that he sent Don Alonso
Calatang, his lieutenant, to go to the place where the
said dead Sangleys were and to count the number, which were twenty nine.
And that he should stay there until they were embarked in the bangkas that this witness
had gotten, and that they should be taken to a place far away from the shore and
the sandbank of the River Bonbon, and that they should throw them into the sea at the depth of fifteen
fathoms, with their hands tied as they were and with the braces
on their necks. And at this point, the tides and the winds were moving away from the
land. And this witness believes that the said
bodies were thrown very far at sea. And the reason why this witness was not present and sent his lieutenant was because he was
busy dispatching the mentioned chief mayor to the town of Taal. And this is what he responds.
-To the sixth question, he said that he thinks that the distance
from where he sent the Sangleys to be thrown into the sea up to the point where
they say that the said Juan Ynbin was found in the vault

and the holy water of this town of Casaysay, is a bit less than
half a league. And by river it is a bit less. And this witness saw
the said wounds that Juan Ynbin had on his body,
which were four, mortal and deep. And [he thinks] that with only one of them
it would have been impossible for Juan Ynbin to naturally
come to the said vault and fountain of holy water, unless it were with the
help of the Most Holy Virgin Our Lady of this town of Casaysay.
And this is what he responds.
-To the seventh question, he said that Wednesday afternoon, which was
the seventh of December of the last year, sixteen thirty
nine, the twenty nine Sangleys who this witness captured were killed,
and among them there was the said Juan Ynbin. And it was on Saturday night
of the said week when he was found the said Juan Ynbin
in the said vault. And this is what he responds.
-To the eighth question, he said that he saw the said Sangley with
the said four wounds, which Doña Catalina Corso, the
wife of this witness, cured. And he has had him all this time in his house,
which this witness has in the town of Taal. Each one of the wounds
is very deep. And in particular, the two
on his neck. Because in the first one had the main nerves
cut off. And the same was in the second one, which was higher up,
and the other two were on top of his right breast and side, [and they were] mortal.
And all four did not have any bloating or swelling, or a bad
smell. But they had many worms. And this is what he responds.
-To the ninth question, he said that in his presence and in his
house, and with his said wife who cured the said Juan Ynbin, he has seen him walk
and is walking on his own, without the help of another person, without a staff or
another instrument. And he is out of danger from them [the wounds]. And this is what he responds.
-To the tenth question, this witness says that he was told that it is a very

true thing by the Indios of this town of Casaysay. [And it is] that after
Juan Ynbin was killed and he was found in the said
vault, they saw above it, two resplendent lights
during three nights, which were [the nights] from the time when
Juan Ynbin was killed to point when he was
found. And this is what he responds.
-To the eleventh question, he said that everything he said is public and well known, public knowledge and reputation, and the truth under
the oath that he has gave, and within the rules
of the law. And he declared to be of the age of thirty
seven. And he signed it with his name in Castilian in front
of the said commissioned judge.

[signatures] Master Joseph Cabral.
Juan de Cabrera.
Before me,
Alonso Márquez,
notary.

[on the left margin] Testimony, Don Juan Magtancab.

In the said town of Casaysay, on the said day, month, and year of the referred
above, Master Joseph Cabral, the priest in charge of the district of
Balayan and commissioned judge for the investigation of the miracle of Our Lady
of Casaysay, had appear before him, a Don Juan Magtangcab, native of the town
of Sinisián in the district of Balayan, who through the

the said translator gave the proper oath in the name
of God Our Lord and the sign of the cross. And having been asked the
contents of this interrogation, he said the following:
-To the first question, he said that he has known Juan Ynbin, Christian Sangley,
for about a month and a half in these parts. And he has had news of the miracle
that Our Lady of Casaysay performed with the said Juan Ynbin, of
whom this witness has heard that he leads a good life and customs. And this is what he responds.
-To the second question, he said that he has heard that due to the general
uprising of the Sangleys, the main mayor of this province in Balayan gave the
order to capture all the Christian and heathen Sangleys in this
province and to kill them. And [he said] that among them there was the said Juan
Ynbin, and that he was killed next to the fort of Bonbon along with the other Sangleys
who were captured in this town of Casaysay and its surroundings. And this is what he responds.
-To the third question, he said that he does not understand the question and this is
what he responds.
-To the fourth question, this witness said that he did not witness the killing
of Juan Ynbin, and that he did not see any of the Sangleys that they
captured with him. And that he did not see how the said Juan
Ynbin was killed, but he has heard that after he was captured and his hands were tied
and with a brace on his neck, they took the said Juan Ynbin out of
the said fort and that they killed him with two machete blows on his
brain and two cuts with spears on top of his right breast and side. And this is what he responds.
-To the fifth question, he said that he has heard that after the said
Juan Ynbin died, they put him in a bangka, in the like of his other
mates and they took him away in there, and they threw him out
far away from the shore and the sandbank of the Bonbon River, at sea where the depth
was more than fifteen fathoms. [He had] his hands tied and with the same
brace on his neck that he had when they killed him. And this is what he responds.
-To the sixth question, he said that having this witness learned the place
where the said Juan Ynbin and the other

dead Sangleys were thrown at sea, to the point where this witness found the said Juan Ynbin,
which was in the vault of the water spring they call "holy" in this town of
Casaysay, by land, he thinks that it would take an hour for a person
walking, because he has walked it a number of times. And by water, it would take a bit less.
And on a Saturday at night, when this witness was taking a bath, which was on the first
day he had arrived in this town to have, I mean, to "hear" Mass
at the church of Our Lady of Casaysay of the said town, because he
has a special devotion [to Our Lady of Casaysay] and this witness and his wife made a vow in
gratitude for granting them health, which was possible by
the intersession of Our Most Holy Lady. And he and his wife were boarding
[and] sleeping in a house of the said town, this witness felt such a
heat and burn in his entire body after midnight that, unable to
handle it, he called a slave and asked him if there was in
that house a cane container with which he could get some water from the spring.
[This was] because he was burning and he wanted to take a bath. To this,
the owner of the house responded that they had a banga container with water that he could use to refresh himself. To which, this witness said that he wanted
to bathe next to the spring of water, because he thought that
the water in the banga was not enough to cool the heat that he
was suffering, and because of the special devotion of more than eighteen years that
this witness has to the water of the spring. And so, he walked down from the said house,
accompanied by two slaves. One was carrying
a banga and the other a cane container to take the water out from
the said spring. And when one of the two slaves--the one who was walking
in the front arrived to get the water from the said spring--called Antonio Malabar,
he became alarmed because he found in the vault of the said spring, a
man who was seated there. He asked, "who are you?" in Castilian. To which he did not
respond or say a word. The said Antonio Malabar went
to this witness and told him not to shout or agitate the town
at such hour. And this witness got closer to see him, and he recognized that he was a
Sangley.
And he asked him who he was and what he was doing. He did not respond

a word, although he made gestures of being thirsty, asking him with signs
to give him to drink from the spring of water, pointing it with his hand.
And it was then when this witness ordered the said slave to take water out of
the said spring with the container he was carrying. And he did so, and he gave
to drink with it to the said Sangley. This witness helped him hold the
said container so that he could drink more easily. And at the beginning, when they
gave it to him, he could not swallow. But later, this witness was able to see
with the light of the moon that [the water] was seeping out of his
nose and ears as he drinking it from his mouth. And after taking a little break,
the said Sangley, returned to drink from the same container, which
this witness helped holding. And then, after he drank [the water], he spoke
well, clearly, and distinctly. And he responded to what he had been
asked earlier. He said, "I am Juan Ynbin, and I am one of the
Sangleys who were killed at the fort." And this witness said to him,
how he, having died so far away, was now there alive, and asked him who
had brought him there and at such hour. To which he responded to this witness
that, a small lady, very pretty and resplendent, of the size of
Our Lady of Casaysay had taken him out of the sea and had brought him
there. Knowing this and having this witness bathed, he ordered his
two slaves to carry and take him [Juan Ynbin] to his resting place, where he
had him until the next day, Sunday, when by the order of the Father Prior
of this district, they took him to Taal. And although
this witness saw wounds on the said Juan Ynbin, he did not
take care of them until he saw them with detail in his resting place. And they [the wounds]
were deep and mortal, especially the ones in his
brain. It was impossible that the said Juan Ynbin would naturally
be able to go to the said vault and the spring of holy water,
where this witness found him, without the special help of the Queen
of the Angels. He knows that she was the medium that allowed him to come
to the said vault and holy spring. And this is what he responds.
-To the seventh question, he said that he has heard that the said

Juan Ynbin and the other Sangleys were killed a Wednesday in the
afternoon. And on Saturday night of the said week, he was found
by this witness, as he has said, in the said spring.
And this is what he responds.
-To the eighth question, he said that he stands by what he said
in the sixth question of this statement. But he did not
see the wounds swollen or with a bad odor. But he had
worms in large quantities and they were big. And this is what he responds.
-To the ninth question, he said that his witness has seen in this
said town of Casaysay the said Juan Ynbin walk on his
own, without the help of anybody or a staff. And it seems to
this witness that he is out of danger from the said wounds; that is, the said
Juan Ynbin. And this is what he responds.
-To the tenth question, he said that after this witness arrived to this
said town of Casaysay, he heard from many people that they had
seen two very resplendent lights above the stone
vault during three nights, at different times.
And this is what he responds.
-To the eleventh question, he said that everything he has said is public
and well-known, of common knowledge and reputation, and the truth under the
oath that he has taken, and within the rules of the law.
He could not say his age. He looked by his appearance to be older than
fifty years old. And he signed it with his name in his manner, in front of the said judge and interpreter.

[signatures] Master Joseph Cabral.
[in Tagalog Baybayin: Juan Magtangcab ]
Thomás Dimaligalig.
Before me,
Alonso Márquez,
notary.

[on the left margin] Testimony, the Father Priest Fray Alonso Rodríguez

In the said town of Casaysay, on the nineteenth
day of the month of January of the year sixteen forty, Master
Joseph Cabral--the priest in charge of the district of Balayan, the vicar
assigned to this province and the commissioned judge for the investigation of the
miracle that Our Lady of Casaysay performed for Juan Ynbin, Christian
Sangley--gave the order to bring before him, the Father Priest Fray Alonso Rodríguez, prior
of this district of Taal, of the order of Saint Augustine, who gave
his proper oath, and putting his right hand on
his breast, he swore the verbo sacerdotis to say the truth. And having
been asked the contents of the interrogatory, he said the following:
-To the first question, he said that he has known Juan Ynbin, Christian
Sangley, stonemason by occupation, for about a year and a half in these parts. This witness has seen him
labor in the works at Casaysay and in the fort of the Bonbon river.
And he has news that the holy image of this Virgin of
Our Lady of Casaysay has performed the miracle that is being investigated. And
in all the time that this witness has known the said Juan Ynbin, he has taken him to be
humble, a good Christian, and abiding by the obligations of such: going to mass
on festive days and making confession without having to
put any pressure on him. And this witness has heard the other Sangleys who are here
say that even when he was a heathen the said Juan Ynbin
lived as if he were a Christian. And this is what he responds.
-To the second question, he said that having the Captain Diego Maldonado Bonal,
the main mayor of this province, received the order of the señor Governor to kill all the Sangleys, Christians and heathens, found in the said
province, the said captain gave the order to Don Juan Cabrera,
Castilian of the fort of Bonbon, to capture all the Sangleys, whether
Christians or heathens, who were in the town of Casaysay. This witness
saw its execution one Tuesday at night, which
was the sixth of December of sixteen thirty nine.
Don Juan de Cabrera, Castillian of said fort of Bonbon, arrived in the said town of Casaysay, in the company of ten to twelve [Indio|Indios]]

soldiers of the said fort. And in the presence of this witness he ordered the
said soldiers to capture and shackle all the Sangleys
that were in the said town, which they did punctually. And among them
there was Juan Ynbin. And with his hands shacked they took
the said Juan Ynbin and the other Sangleys they found in the
said town prisoners. And this witness learned later that they took them
to the said fort of Bonbon and imprisoned them. And this is what he responds.
-To the third question, he said that on Wednesday, which was the seventh of
December of the past year, sixteen thirty nine, at 4 in the
afternoon, he went to the fort of Bonbon. And having entered it,
this witness saw the said Juan Ynbin, with his hands tied
and with a brace on his neck, in the same fashion of the other Sangleys
who were in the said fort. And having counted them, this witness found
twenty nine. And urging them to make confession, the said Juan
Ynbin came first to make confession. And he made confession with this witness. And
after absolving him, this witness says that he heard him call on the Virgin Mary Our
Lady, invoking her holy name three or four times,
until the said Juan Ynbin retreated so that the other Christians
could make confession. And having finished the confessions of
all the Sangleys who were Christians, and having Christianized the
heathens who asked for baptism, this witness saw that they were taking them out of
the said fort two by two, being accompanied and guarded by
the Indio soldiers of the said fort. They took them to the beach,
in front of the same fort, which was the place where they killed
everyone. And this is what he responds.
-To the fourth question, he said that there was a gentleman in the said
fort who saw the site where they were killed. This witness saw how
the said Sangleys were arriving in the resting place two by two in the
same order that they were leaving the fort. And having the
said Juan Ynbin arrived on the said beach, he kneeled down and
lowered his head. And an Indio soldier of the said fort, one of the

ones who was assigned to execute and kill the said Sangleys, gave him a blow
with a large machete on his neck, with which he fell to the
ground. And right after, he gave him another machete blow on the same spot on his neck.
This witness noted that the only one who received two machete blows was Juan Ynbin and not another one
of the twenty nine Sangleys who were with him in that place
and died. And having finished giving him machete blows, this witness saw that the same
Indio who gave them [the machete blows] to him, took the same machete that he used to strike
his neck and with its pointed edge to strike him on the side of his
chest. And then another Indio arrived with a spear
in his hands and pierced him. And this is what he responds.
-To the fifth question, he said that after the said Sangleys were all dead
Captain Diego Maldonado Bonal, the main mayor of this province, who was
ordered in front of this witness because he was in his company
in the mount of the said fort. And they counted twenty nine Sangleys, which was the same number
found inside the said fort. Likewise, in the presence of this witness they counted them
and this witness said the prayer of the dead for those who were deceased. And later,
the said mayor Don Juan de Cabrera, ordered the Castilian of the said fort
to throw them away from the sandbank. And in the presence of this witness
they prepared the bangkas and the Indios to dispatch them. And afterwards,
this witness heard that they had sent them all away, and among them, the said Juan
Ynbin, [also] away from the sandbank and at sea, where it was about fifteen
fathoms deep. And this is what he responds.
-To the sixth question, he said that from the place where the said Juan Ynbin
was thrown into the sea with the other Sangleys to the vault
and water spring of this town of Casaysay, where the said Juan
Ynbin was found, there is a distance of a bit less than half a league by land. And a little bit more
by river. And this witness has taken one way and the other many times.
And this witness thinks that according to the wounds that he saw on
Juan Ynbin, it was impossible in all impossibility, not only that
he would not be able to go by himself to the said vault and holy spring where the said Juan
Ynbin was found, but that he would be able to rise on his own from the place where this witness
saw him fall dead, without particular help from God Our Lord. And so this
witness believes that his case is miraculous. And this is what he responds.