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353. 



Total: All the Indians under confessional instruction under the charge of the 

 friars, not counting boys and girls (who are very numerous), sum up to 91,500; 

 this reckoning is rather under than over, for if one took the census lists 

 (padrones) the figure would be higher 91.500 



Total : The friars who are engaged in instructing these people number 93, 

 of whom 84 and over are ordained priests 93 



Total : The Indian villages which are under the charge of the friars number 



131 131 



Total : The convents and guardianships established in this province number 30, 

 as" results from what has been detailed above 30 



Besides the above-mentioned friars, ordained priests, who are at 

 present engaged in preaching in the native tongue, there are some 

 others, recent arrivals from Spain, who are at present studying and 

 learning the language, so that in all there will be over 112 friars. 



(Here is inserted a small leaf in a different hand, with another 

 summary, viz :) 



354. Memorandum of the convents, friars, Indian villages and 

 Indians under instruction, belonging to our order in this Province 

 of St. Joseph of Yucatan. 



Convents 30 



Friars 112 



Indian villages 131 



Indians under religious instruction 91,500 



Chapter IV 



Of the Clerics, Ordained Priests, Resident in the Province and 

 State of Yucatan, and the Villages and Indians under Their Charge. 



355. In the city of Merida, Licentiate Francisco de Avila, son of 

 a pioneer, well versed in the native tongue, and Vicar-General of 

 the entire Diocese. 



In the benefice of Chantzonot and 7 other villages in which there are over 

 3,000 persons under religious instruction : i priest 3, 000 



In the village of Tichel : over 800 persons under religious instruction, plus 

 children ; they are instructed by Licentiate Hernando Sanchez Tinoco, well 

 versed in the native tongue ; this village used to belong to the Franciscan friars ; 

 there are 4 villages 800 



Father Juan Gomez Pacheco, well versed in the Indian language, has 6 villages 

 under instruction; the principal one is Tiscocob. There are in them over 2,800 

 persons under confessional instruction, plus small fry ; these are likewise villages 

 withdrawn from the Franciscan friars 2,800 



In the Province of Hocaba there are 9 villages, with 3,600 persons under 

 confessional instruction, plus children ; there is a Franciscan convent, and 2 

 priests who instruct them 3,6oo 



