Francisco de Santillana, 1588 
Witnesses. 
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I. Francisco Muñoz . . . answered to the second question that he has 
heard many persons say that Alonso Rodriguez Parra went on the expe¬ 
dition to Cibola with Francisco Vasques Coronado, the governor who they 
say went, but he does not know whether he went as a soldier. . . . 
II. Juan Ruiz . . . answered to the second question . . . that he 
knows that the said Alonso Rodriguez Parra, the father [of Juan], went 
as a soldier with Francisco Vásquez Coronado. This witness was an 
eye-witness because he also went as a soldier in the said expedition. He 
knows that Alonso Rodriguez Parra went as a foot soldier, and that he 
was in the governor’s guard, because, as already stated, he saw him. He 
knows also that no pay was given to him by his Majesty or the governor 
in his name, for if it had been given him this witness would have known 
it. ... 
III. Estéban Martín . . . being asked the second question answered 
. . . that (this witness) was one of the soldiers that went on the cam¬ 
paign to Cibola and that he saw him as a soldier in the said campaign. 
While this witness and Alonso Rodriguez Parra were travelling together 
in the expedition he told this witness many times that when he dis¬ 
embarked he had come on this expedition without stopping in New Spain, 
and had caught up with the camp at the town of Culiacán. He always 
knew him to be a soldier, and that he was in the guard of Governor 
Francisco Vásquez, and he knows that he went at his own expense, with¬ 
out pay from his Majesty. This he is sure of, for had it been otherwise 
he would certainly have known of it. 
IV. Alonso Alvares del Valle . . . knows that he went as a soldier at 
his own expense, because his Majesty gave no aid whatever to the soldiers 
in their expenses. . . . 
Evidence submitted of the merits and services of Francisco de Santillana, 
and of Pedro de Santillana, his son, in the conquest of the new land 
and Seven Cities of Cibola with General Francisco Vásquez Coro¬ 
nado. M árida, Yucatán, December J, 1588. 
I. Maria de Espinosa Santillana and Anna Nieto de Santillana, daugh¬ 
ters of Pedro de Santillana, deceased former resident of the city of Mérida 
in Yucatán, affirm that Francisco de Santillana, their grandfather, and 
Pedro de Santillana, their father, were conquerors and old settlers of that 
land ; that there they rendered many and important services to your High¬ 
ness, furnishing arms and horses at their own expense; and that their 
grandfather, in the pacification of the new land and Seven Cities of Cibola 
and the battle fought with the natives, was wounded by an arrow. Your 
highness gave him as a reward the office of doorkeeper ( portero ) of the 
royal Audiencia of Mexico, with five hundred dollars in gold as salary; 
but as the viceroy had already conferred it [upon some one else], he did 
not enjoy it. And, although in the past year of ’94 your Highness, in con- 
