García Rodríguez, 1618 
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trouble and delay of suits which have kept him residing in this court for 
two years past, and for three years without salary from your Majesty, 
whereby his expense has been great. He therefore applies to your 
Majesty, whose sentiment of clemency is the only refuge of your servants 
who desire to be better able to continue to serve you, as this suppliant 
desires, beseeching that your Majesty be pleased to command your Council 
to do as he has petitioned. And since he has come back safe from so 
many hazards of sea and war with the honor which your Majesty con¬ 
ferred upon him, he beseeches humbly that you will so assist him that he 
shall not, after twenty-two years of good fortune, be penalized nor left 
unrewarded for [at least] some of the merits referred to in the memorial 
herewith enclosed and now cited only in general so as not to make this 
petition too prolix, which it would be if they were specified. 
[It has no signature nor date. . . .—F. R. B.] 
Report concerning the merits and services of García Rodriguez, one of 
the conquerors of the Seven Cities of Cibola, and one of the first set¬ 
ters of Mexico and New Spain. Mexico, April 26, 1618. 
I, Antonio de Moya, in the name of Doctor Juan Nieto de Avalos, 
appear before your highness in the proper form according to law, and 
say: That the above-named person is the great-grandson of Garcia 
Rodriguez, who was one of the first conquerors and settlers of New Spain; 
is a native of the City of Mexico and an attorney before the royal Audi¬ 
encia of that city, having been examined and approved. He has served 
in the office of clerk [ relator ] of the court of the cruzada 38 in Mexico City 
for more than four years, has also served in judicial positions, and in other 
affairs pertaining to the service of your Highness. This is all made evi¬ 
dent and apparent from the reports which were made upon request of your 
fiscal of the royal Audiencia, from the opinion which that official rendered 
thereon, and from the ex parte representation which I offer herewith 
under necessary oath, so that the foregoing documents may be filed with 
the official reports which are now before the president and secretary. 
Upon the representations contained in them all I pray and beseech your 
Highness to be pleased to grant [to Juan Nieto de Avalos], in remunera¬ 
tion of the services of García Rodriguez, his great-grandfather, and of 
those of his parents, who were also settlers of those kingdoms, as well as 
of the services of my client, and in recognition of his qualifications and 
fitness, the favor of a place in one of the audiencias of the Indies and one 
of the prebends or canonships of one of the cathedral churches therein, 
and of any other office which may be available as a reward for the ser¬ 
vices of his parents and grandfathers and his own. From such a grant 
which he justly asks for, he will receive benefit and favor, and for it. . . . 
From the petition for office, accompanied by recommen¬ 
dations, statement of services and qualifications for a grant, 
January 31, 1618. 
Doctor Salcedo de Cuervas. 
