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Hermano Fray Diego

Found 15 Instances of "Hermano Fray Diego" on 6 Pages

Relación y otros instrumentos sobre el desacato de los Naturales de Dongalo. 1717.

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El día 28 de mayo me avisó el Hermano Fray Diego
cómo había tenido noticias de que el juez
mayor había mandado que todos los indios
de Dongalo salieran a la sábana para señalarles
adonde habían de hacer la cerca, y
que si que yo le podía hablar para que no hiciera
tal cosa. Aquel mismo día por la tarde
estando sentado en la puerta del campo en
presencia del español que trajo el recado
y del fiscal mayor el Capitán Don Pedro de los
Santos, y de otro principal llamado Don Diego
Bernal llamé al juez mayor y le pregunté
si es verdad había echado bando para
que todos los de Dongalo fueran a la sábana
para señalarles adonde habían de hacer la cerca
y me respondió que era verdad. Porque todo
el común de Dongalo le habían presentado un
escrito pidiéndole lo hiciera así y que tenían
orden verbal del señor oidor fiscal para hacer allí
la cerca. Yo le respondí que pues el pleito estaba
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On the 28th of May, Brother Fray Diego told me
that he had received news that the judge
of the Indios had ordered all the Indios
of Dongalo to go to the savanna to indicate to them
where they should place the fence. And [he asked]
if I could speak to him [the judge of the Indios] so that he could not do
such thing. On that same day in the afternoon
while seated at the field's gate in the
presence of the Spanish who brought the message,
and the chief assistant [to the mission], Captain Don Pedro de los
Santos, and from another principal called Don Diego
Bernal, I called the judge of the Indios and asked him
if it was true that he had sent a mandate ordering
that all in Dongalo go to the savanna
to indicate to them where they had to build the fence.
And he responded that it was true. [This was] because the
group of principales of Dongalo had presented to him
a petition to ask him to do so, and they had
the verbal order from the señor judge to build the
fence there. I responded to him that the case was

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El día 30 de mayo de 1717: Pasé a Manila a la fiesta del
domingo infraoctavo del Corpus y le conté a nuestro muy reverendo padre lector
Fray Joseph López lo que había pasado con el juez mayor y lo que me
había respondido dicho juez mayor. Y también le dije a su reverencia
como había oído decir que el dicho juez, había mandado que toda la
gente de Dongalo saliera el día siguiente lunes a hacer de facto
la cerca adonde él les había señalado, y su reverencia me dijo que
sería bueno el ver si se podía sacar un testimonio del escribano de todo lo
que respondiere el juez acerca de hacer la cerca adonde la hacía, o mandaba
que se hiciera. Y yo respondí a su reverencia que se haría como su reverencia
lo mandaba, y que le acompañaría al Hermano Fray Diego hasta el sitio
adonde los indios habían de estar haciendo la cerca, y que allí en presencia
de todos se le preguntaría al juez la razón que tenía para mandar
que se hiciera la cerca en aquel sitio. Llegado el día siguiente le
avisé al gobernadorcillo que mirara [que] habíamos de ir a la tarde al
sitio donde los indios de Dongalo estaban cercando las sementeras
y que mirara que había de ir junto su escribano y el juez mayor
y que había de ser después de vísperas, y este recado se lo
envié por dos veces con mi criado. Y respondió que sí, que iría,
y también envié a mi fiscal mayor con el mismo recado, y respondió
lo mismo. Y llegada la hora de vísperas o mucho después
de vísperas fue mi criado a decirle que ya era hora, y también envié
al fiscal mayor con el mismo recado, y que le dijera que allá le aguardaba
en la pedrera porque estaba la marca grande, y que yo había
de ir embarcado. Y después de haber llegado yo a la pedrera llegó
el fiscal mayor y el fiscal pasado que eran los que me habían de
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On the 30th of May of 1717: I went to Manila to the feast of the
eighth Sunday of the Corpus Christi and I told our very reverend father lector
Fray Joseph López what had happened with the judge of the Indios and how
he had responded. I also told His Reverence
that I had heard that the said judge, had ordered that all the
people of Dongalo on the following day, Monday, to build
the fence where he had indicated. And His Reverence told me that
it would be good to see if he could have the [local] scribe write a testimony about everything
the judge says about the fence; where it was made or where he ordered
be made? And I responded to His Reverence that I would do as His Reverence
ordered, and that I would accompany Brother Fray Diego up to the site
where the Indios were building the fence; and that there, in the presence
of everyone, we would ask the reason why he had ordered the fence be constructed on that site. On the next day, I told the gobernadorcillo that we had to go later to the
the site where the Indios of Dongalo were fencing the crops.
And [I told him] that he should go with his scribe and the judge of the Indios
and that it had to be after vespers. And I sent this request
twice with my young servant. And he responded "yes," that he would go,
and I also the same request to our chief assistant [to the mission], and he responded the same
thing. And right before the evening fell and long before the evening
ended, my young servant went to tell him that it was time. And I also sent
the same request to our chief assistant [to the mission]. And [I told him] that I would wait
for him in the stone quarry because it served as a marker, and that I was going to go by boat. And after I arrived in the stone quarry, our
chief assistant arrived with the former chief assistant who were the ones who had

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acompañar. Y le pregunté por el gobernadorcillo y su escribano, y me dijo que
decía el gobernadorcillo que estaba aguardando su caballo, y que en []
iría, y yo desde allí le envié otros dos recados con [baguntaos]
que le dijeran que allí le estaba aguardando, y que
así que se despachara a ir cuanto antes porque ya era [tarde].
Y estando yo en este sitio aguardando llegó el Hermano Fray [Diego]
y allí estuvimos como cosa de una hora poco más o menos aguardando
al gobernadorcillo y su escribano. Y luego que yo llegué a la pedrera
llegué a un cobillo que estaba allí y desperté a mi criado que [estaba]
durmiendo por estar cansado de componer un pedazo []ca
que había compuesto desde por la mañana con dos [sirvientes de]
cocina, que le ayudaba para poder tener allí mis caballos [].
Y le mandé que me cogiera mi caballo que estaba allí []
y que cogiera otro para él, y otro para el chiquillo que
iba con los cojinillos y le dije que había de ir junto [conmigo].
Y viendo nosotros que no llegaba el gobernadorcillo [dijímonos]
poco a poco hasta ver si llegaba el gobernadorcillo. Y [dejamos un]
bantay en la pedrera para luego que llegara el que fuera al [sitio]
lado. Y por fin nos la pegó y no fue. Y discurro que fue por tener [cuñado]
casado en Dongalo llamado Don Luis Ramos que [fue uno de]
los muy desatentos aquella tarde, o por mejor decir, desvergonzados
sus obras y palabras. Y dicho gobernadorcillo se ha visto el que hace []
las partes de los de Dongalo. Y yo le dije al Hermano Fray Diego
camino en presencia de los dos principales que iban conmigo el que
les había de hacer cosa ninguna a los indios luego que llegáramos
donde ellos estaban. Y habiendo llegado allá, esto es [adonde estaba]
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accompanied me. And I asked to see the gobernadorcillo and his scribe, and he told me
that the gobernadorcillo was waiting for his horse, and that [] he would come soon. And from there I sent two requests with baguntaos
who told him that I was there waiting for him. And [I said that] he should
come to see me as soon as possible because it was already late.
And at the place where I was waiting, Brother Fray Diego arrived
and we were there for about an hour, more or less, waiting
for the gobernadorcillo and his scribe. And after I arrived in the stone quarry
I went to a hideout nearby and I woke my servant up who was
sleeping because he was tired from working on [
] that he made since the morning with two kitchen
servants, so that I could keep my horses there.
And I ordered him to take my horse that was there
and take another one for himself. And [to take another one] for the young boy who was there with the saddlebag. And I told him he should come with me.
And seeing that the gobernadorcillo did not arrive, we decided to wait
a little longer to see if the gobernadorcillo showed up. And we left a
guard in the stone quarry so that if he arrived there, he would come to the place
next to it. And he played us and did not come. And I should say that he had a brother in law in Dongalo named Don Luis Ramos, who was one of the
discourteous ones that afternoon, or better said, shameless by
his actions and words. And it has been seen that the said gobernadorcillo has had
a bad influence in these parts of Dongalo. And I told Brother Fray Diego when I
was on my way, in the presence of the two principales who were with me that
I was not going to do anything to the Indios once we
arrived there. And having arrived there, that is,


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haciendo su cerca [que] era el sitio que llaman Santa Lucía. Y cuando llegamos, hallamos
que estaba toda la gente de Dongalo viejos, y mozos, y hasta los muchachos,
y todos los baguntaos, y sacristanes, que al parecer había más
de trescientas personas. Y luego que nos vieron llegar a donde estaba el
juez y sus compañeros, los motores del pleito, se acercó la mayor parte de
la gente, y nos fueron cogiendo en medio. Yo [reparé] que todos tenían
en las manos fuera de los bolos muy buenos garrotes y otros tenían
machetes y garrotes y algunos lanzas cortas, y el juez mayor su
alfanje. Y habiéndome yo llegado [donde] estaba el juez mayor le dije
que como hacía lo que hacía de haber echado [bando] para que toda la
gente saliera a hacer la cerca que estaban haciendo, habiéndole yo dicho
lo que le dije el día viernes en la tarde, me respondió que no podía
hacer otra cosa porque bastaba que [si lo] hubieran pedido todos los del común
de su pueblo. Y que bastaba la orden verbal del señor oidor fiscal que les había
dado para hacer la cerca donde la hacían. Y que así que ellos sabían
muy bien lo que se hacía. Yo le dije que nada de lo que había mandado
ni hacían era puesto en razón. Pues si él era [justicia] debía obrar como
Dios manda, y no hacer [una] sin razón como la que estaban haciendo.
Pero que Dios [cuidado] y que se resultare alguna cosa que él lo había
de pagar por fin [por] haber mandado hacer lo que todo el común
de Dongalo estaba haciendo. Y que esperaba en Dios el que no habían
de ganar el pleito, y también le dijimos que como decían que
se lo había mandado el señor oidor fiscal pues al Hermano Fray Diego le había
dicho dicho señor oidor fiscal que él no había mandado tal cosa, y a
eso respondieron ellos que a ellos se lo había dicho verbalmente. Y que
así [se veían] muy bien lo que se hacían, y yo le dije tanto a él como
al Capitán Pablo, y a sus compañeros: "con que vosotros diréis más verdad
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where they were constructing the fence, which is a place they call Santa Lucía. And when we arrived, we saw
all the people of Dongalo, old and young, and even the young men,
and all the ^{*Most likely, a reference to the young men in the community.baguntaos}, and sacristans, so that overall there were more than
three hundred people. And after seeing us arrive to the place where
the judge [of the Indios] and his partners where, the claimants of the case. [And] the majority of the people came nearby and they started surrounding us. I noticed that they all had
in their hands, besides sticks, some very good cudgels and other had
machetes and cudgels [sic] and some had short lances. And the judge of the Indios had his
scimitar. And having arrived where the judge of the Indios was located I told him
that what he had done by sending an order to have all the
people come to the fence that they were building, even after I told him
what I told him on Friday afternoon. He responded that he could not do
anything else because it was sufficient that the principales from the town had requested it. And it was
sufficient to have the verbal order of the señor judge, which
he had delivered to construct the fence where they were building it. And that it was so that they knew
very well what they were doing. I told him that nothing he had ordered [or]
that they had done was reasonable, because he was a judge and had to do what
God ordered, and not do unreasonable things like he was doing.
However, God was going to make him pay
for having ordered the principales to do what
the principales of Dongalo were doing. And I hoped God would not allow
them to win the case. And we also told them that
Brother Fray Diego had gone to see the señor judge who
had told him that he had not ordered such a thing. And to that
they responded that they had given the order to them orally. And [they said] that
they were doing the right thing. And I told him and
Captain Pablo and his partners: "it looks like you are saying a higher truth

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antes el oír cosas que no quisiera oírlas. Y así todo se lo [o]
a Dios, y el muchacho mi criado por fin le quitó el alfanje
de la mano, y al quitárselo como el indio hacía fuerza [de]
soltarlo, se cortó el mismo con su mismo alfanje de la [mano]
un poco de la banda de adentro. Y, ya viéndose sin alfanje
otro de sus compañeros, le dio otro alfanje, y lo jugaba muy [bien]
no obstante de tener su mano lastimada. Y mi criado [se retiró]
dos pasos atrás defendiéndose de tanto garrote y alfanje [como]
llovían sobre él, y al retirarse para atrás se [enredó]
rodaja de la espuela en la rienda de mi caballo, y [cayó]de bruzas
porque el caballo tiró un [gelon] para atrás, y [entonces]
le rompieron la cabeza de un palo. Y un brazo se lo maltrataron
muy bien cómo se puede ver por esa certificación de
cirujano que le curó. Y si uno no llega y corta la [rienda de]
mi caballo paraque no se hubiera levantado. Y lo hubieran [ acabado]
de matar. Y yo con mi mano derecha cogí la rienda de mi [caballo]
para que no se me fuera porque estaba muy alborotado. Y yo [tuviera que]
pedirles el que se apaciguaran con la mano izquierda [que]
me servía como de broquel cuando les hablaba, cuando se [arrimó]
el hijo del Capitán Pablo, y me tiró un palo a la mano que
la dejó sin poderla menear por entonces. Y cuando yo [volví la cara]
vi que el Hermano Fray Diego, y sus vaqueros, y mi [muchacho]
iban corriendo a caballo, y la mayor parte de la gente iban corriendo
tras ellos. Yo me quedé allí con mi fiscal y mi [chiquillo]
que iba con los cojinillos. Y no pudiéndome yo poner a caballo
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Instead, I had to hear things that I did not want to hear. And so everything [
] to God, and the young man, my servant, finally took the scimitar away
from his hand. And while he was trying to take it away he got a cut on the side
of his hand with his own scimitar, because the Indio was resisting with
force. And, realizing that he did not have his scimitar
another one of his partners gave him another scimitar. And he was handling it well
even though he had his hand injured. And my servant retreated
two steps to defend himself from the strikes of cudgels and the scimitars, which
were raining on him. And when he stepped back, the wheel of
his spur got entangled in the reins of my horse and he fell rapidly
because the horse went back and then
they broke his head at once. And one hand was greatly
injured as it can be seen in the certification of the
surgeon who cured him. And I did not cut the [reins of] my horse
he would not have been able to get up. And they would have finished
killing him. And I used my right hand to take the reins of my [horse]
because he was going to run away due to his agitation. And
I had to use my left hand as a shield (while I was speaking), and the son of
Captain Pablo came to me and struck my hand in such
a way that it was immobilized. And when I turned around,
I saw Brother Fray Diego and his cowhands, and my young servant
running away on their horses. And the majority of the people were running
behind them. I stayed there with my chief assistant and the boy
who carried the cushions. And because I was unable to ride my horse

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{Al margen izquierdo: mi fiscal pasado}
me ayudó a poner a caballo y juntamente con el teniente pasado que
estaba allí por ser de Dongalo, pero no se metió jamás en
bueno, ni en malo. También el segundo mayor que se hallaba también
allí, y ellos fueron los que me amarraron un paño en
la mano porque no me entraba frío en ella. Y me parece que
si a esos dos los llamaren, y debajo del juramento les preguntaren
lo que pasó, dirán la verdad por ser indios bien intencionados.
Y después que la mayor parte de la gente se había ido tras
del Hermano Fray Diego, y el juez mayor se había quedado allí con
[cha]otra parte de gente que vino se meneaban a cosa alguna.
Y le dije al juez mayor: "mira, Dios [ha] cuidado contigo pues ha sido
la causa de todo esto, y que a mí siendo tu ministro y tu
padre me han lastimado de esta suerte siendo siempre mi ánimo
el no haceros ningún mal, sino antes mucho bien.
Y si yo no fuera sacerdote y tuviera un alfanje en las
manos no había de haber quien a mí se me hace arrimara
porque antes que me llegaran al pelo de la ropa había se de caer
una media docena. Pero soy padre y así no puedo hacer
nada de eso y más cuando mi intención siempre ha sido
buena, y vine solamente porque no hubiera ninguna cosa
por ser vuestro ministro. Porque juzgué estando yo delante ninguno
se había de propasar, a lo que se propasaron." Estando ya
para querernos volver, y mi fiscal y mi chiquillo, llegó
el Capitán Pablo con toda la gente que le acompañaba que habían
ido tras del Hermano Fray Diego. Pegó ael Capitán Pablo lo primero
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[On the left margin: my former chief assistant]
helped me ride the horse [and] with the former lieutenant [chief assistant] who was
there because he is from Dongalo. But he did not get involved at all, for
better or for worse. And the second assistant was also
there. And they are the ones who tied my hand with a piece of cloth
because I could not manage to cool it down. And I think that
if these two were called and asked to speak about what happened under oath,
they will say the truth because they are well meaning Indios.
And after the majority of the people went after
Brother Fray Diego, the judge of the Indios stayed there with
other people who came and were planning something.
And I said to the judge of the Indios, "Look, God will take care of you, because you
are the cause of all this, and being your minister and your
father you have hurt me in this way, even though it has always been my intention
not to do any harm but only a lot of good.
And if I were not a priest and I had a scimitar in my
hands, there would not be anyone who could come close to me,
because even before anyone could touch a single thread on my clothes I would
vanquish half a dozen [of them] at once. But I am a father and, hence, I cannot do
any of this and, especially, when my intention has always been
good. And I came only because I did not want anything to happen,
because I am your minister. Because I assumed that if I were here, nobody
would dare to overstep their bounds, but you all overstepped your bounds." Once we
were ready to return, [with] my assistant and my young servant,
Captain Pablo arrived with all the people who had accompanied him in
chasing Brother Fray Diego. Captain Pablo first hit

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