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Notes 
Notes for Part II. 
1 Dorothy Hull, “ Castaño de Sosa’s Expedition to New Mexico in 1590,” in Old 
Santa Fé, III. 307-332, is the recognized authority for this expedition. Miss Hull 
adduces proof to show that the expedition was not a violation of the Laws of Settle¬ 
ment of 1573. 
2 In the southern part of the present state of Vera Cruz. 
3 Cristóbal de Oñate was lieutenant-governor of Nueva Galicia at the time of the 
Coronado expedition to New Mexico in 1540-1542. Winship, The Coronado Expe¬ 
dition, p. 408. 
4 See Introduction, this volume, pp. 194, 206. 
5 The regulations laid down for making new discoveries—referred to in the documents 
herein printed as the “ ordinances for new settlements ”, but better known as the “ Laws 
of Settlement of 1573”—are found in “Ordenanzas de Su Magestad hechas para los 
Nuevos Descubrimientos, Conquistas, y Pacificaciones, Julio de 1573,” in Col. Doc. Inéd., 
XVI. 142-187. 
6 Probably the Tarahumares Indians. 
7 See above, note 5. 
8 Ibid. 
9 Imperio mero mixto, the power conferred on magistrates to decide both civil and 
criminal cases of all grades, those punishable with death as well as the lesser kinds.— 
N. V. S. 
10 See above, note 9. 
11 See above, note 5. 
12 Evidently an order for the construction of new ships for the Manila galleon service. 
13 The new governor of the Philippines at that time was the Marquis of Cañete. See 
this volume, p. 263. 
14 The west-bound Manila galleon carried bullion which was exchanged for mer¬ 
chandise in Manila; the latter was brought to Acapulco, New Spain, by the east-bound 
galleon. See W. L. Schurz, “ Mexico, Peru, and the Manila Galleon ”, in the Hispanic 
American Historical Review, I. 389-402 (Nov., 1918). 
15 See above, note 5. 
16 The date 1599 is a miscopy. 
17 The regulations concerning tributes are found in the Recopilación, libros 6 and 8. 
18 Very probably reference is to the New Kingdom of León which had been founded 
a few years before by Luís de Carabajal. The standard authority on this episode is 
Alonso de León, Historia de Nuevo León. The book was written in 1650 but was not 
published until 1909. 
19 Immediately following this item in Oñate’s original contract occurs the following: 
“ Item: 600 pesos worth of iron for making into tools ”. See this vol., p. 229. 
20 Immediately following this item in the original contract occurs the following: 
“Two iron-tired carts with their mules”. Ibid. 
21 See above, note 5. 
22 Lorenzo Suárez de Mendoza, Count of Coruña, was viceroy of New Spain from 
1580 until 1583. Bolton, Guide to Materials for the History of the United States in the 
Principal Archives of Mexico, p. 469. 
23 Permits to go from Spain to the Indies and licenses for vessels going thereto had 
to be secured from the Casa de Contratación at Seville. See Bourne, Spain in America, 
pp. 284-285. 
24 The Theatines were members of a religious order founded by Pope Paul IV. when 
bishop of Chieti (Theate). 
25 Reference is made to the unauthorized expedition of Castaño de Sosa, lieutenant- 
governor of Nuevo León, into New Mexico in 1590. See Introduction, this volume, 
P- 193. 
26 Reference is made to various papal bulls and treaties beginning with the papal Bull 
of Demarcation of 1493 and the Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494 with Portugal. 
