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tion of the loyal services to us of Doctor Sancho Sánchez de Muñón, of the 
school of the archiepiscopal church of that city, especially in what he did in 
the discovery of the rebellion that was attempted there against our service, 
I have determined to grant him two thousand pesos income from tributes 
and rents annually for all the days of his life, to be paid from the products 
and rentals of the said apportionment of Teguacán; and, as you will see by 
the decree that I have issued to him in regard to them, it is our will that it 
shall be thus done and carried out as soon as the said apportionment has 
been finally added to our royal crown, observing in all and by all the pur¬ 
port and form contained in our said decree of which mention is made 
above, and giving them [the said rentals] to him in virtue of it. It was 
ordered that from the day that he should set sail to these kingdoms the 
said two thousand pesos should be given and paid during his lifetime to 
him or anyone holding his power of attorney, without any discount, not¬ 
withstanding that the said apportionment belongs to our royal crown and 
notwithstanding any other grants, assignments or apportionments that 
may have been made of the tributes of the said Indians to other persons, 
for we wish and it is our will that what the said Doctor Muñón is to have, 
in accordance with the aforesaid, shall be carried out and paid first and 
before everything else. Done at San Lorenzo el Real. June 24, 1573. 
I the King. 
Abstract of proofs. 
Don Agustín de la Torre Altamirano, legitimate son of the licentiate 
Luís de la Torre and Doña Juana Altamirano, grandson and great-grand¬ 
son of the conquerors and settlers of New Spain and its conquests, de¬ 
clares that as appears from the proofs which he presents before your 
Majesty, his aforesaid grandfather held in encomienda half of the Indians 
of the town of Teguacán, but because of a dishonest report it was taken 
from him [Agustín de la Torre], and the suit is now in the stage of second 
appeal before your Majesty, and because of the poverty of the supplicant 
he has not been able to come to prosecute it, no grant having been made 
him. As appears from the affidavits of the royal officials and the suppli¬ 
cant, he serves your Majesty in every way that offers and he humbly 
begs that you will grant him the favor that the viceroys, in obedience to 
your Majesty, shall give him officially, in consideration of his having been 
dispossessed of his encomienda , one of these four [apportionments] Tlas- 
cala, La Puebla, Cretano, or Atrico. He will know how to administer it 
and make a report, as he has given of those that he has held, if your 
Majesty will so order that he shall receive the grant. 
[There is a copy of the same on another page and under this heading: 
“ Let the decree of ordinary recommendation of which he asks the 
favor be granted. Feb. 27, 1625.”—F. R. B.] 
