The custom is mentioned by Foreman.
[164] Appellation given to their ecclesiastical sages by Mahometans.
[165] See the king's decree granting this coat-of-arms, in _Vol_. IX,
pp. 211-215, with two representations of the coat-of-arms.
[166] Convents occupy almost one-third part of the walled
city.--_Rizal_.
[167] The walls did not even have any moats then; these were dug after
the English invasion of 1762. The walls were also rearranged at that
time, and perfected with the lapse of time and the needs that arose
in the city.--_Rizal_.
[168] Rizal misprints _al cabo del lienco_ as _al campo del lienzo_.
[169] Now [1890] the gates of the city are open all night, and in
certain periods, passage along the streets and through the walls is
allowed at all hours.--_Rizal_.
[170] This powder-mill has several times changed its site. It was
afterward near Maalat on the seashore, and then was moved to Nagtaha,
on the bank of the Pasig.--_Rizal_.
[171] Probably on the same site where the great Tagal cannon-foundry
had formerly stood, which was burned and destroyed by the Spaniards
at their first arrival in Manila.
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