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27 Don Pedro Ponce de León offered to take with his expedition 250 colts and the 
same number of breeding mares (see this volume, p. 281) ; the difference is evidently due 
to an error in copying. 
28 Don Pedro offered to spend a total of 12,000 reales for articles for this purpose (see 
this volume, p. 281) ; the difference here is evidently due to an error in copying. 
29 An old Spanish coin worth about one-sixth of a cent. 
30 Cf. cédula of October 12, 1596, this volume, p. 337. 
31 Reference is evidently made to the unauthorized expedition of Bonilla and 
Humaña to New Mexico in 1593. 
32 See above, note 29. 
33 Reference is to the cédula of March 29, 1583. See Introduction, p. 194. 
34 For the regular flota service between Spain and the Indies see Bourne, Spain in 
America, pp. 284 ff. 
35 According to the catalogue of Spanish transcripts in the Ayer Collection of the 
Newberry Library, what is apparently the original letter is in A. G. I., 67-1-2. 
36 Reference is made to the unauthorized expedition of Francisco Leyva de Bonilla 
and Gutierrez de Humaña to New Mexico in 1593. See Introduction, this volume, p. 194. 
37 See above, note 36. 
38 Puebla de los Ángeles, capital of the present state of Puebla, and long the second 
most important city in New Spain. 
39 Reference is probably to Diego Fernández de Serpa, governor of New Andalusia, 
on the north coast of South America. Having recruited several hundred soldiers and 
colonists in Spain he arrived at Cumaná in 1569. For further details see Moses, 
Spanish Dependencies, I. 43. 
40 Apparently reference is to Juan Ponce de León, the discoverer and would-be col¬ 
onizer of Florida. See Lowery, Spanish Settlements within the Present Limits of the 
United States, 1513-1561, pp. 146-148. 
41 The editor has been unable to find any reference to a conquistador by the name 
of Artieta. 
42 Luis de Carabajal was named governor of the New Kingdom of León, in New 
Spain, in 1579 and: began his colonizing work there in 1583. See Introduction, this 
volume, p. 18. 
43 It is not clear to whom reference is here made. 
44 Tilts or covers for camp wagons, which were made of native cloth or canvas of 
woven grasses, such as the bindweed of Michoacan.—N. V. S. 
45 See above, note 38. 
46 “ Penas de cámara ”—fines imposed on places to be applied to the public treasury.— 
N. V. S. 
47 Whenever the Audiencia formally met with the viceroy in an advisory capacity, 
such a meeting was called a real acuerdo. 
48 Ulloa’s official “Notificación” is dated Sept. 9, 1596. This volume, pp. 351-353. 
49 See above, note 36. 
50 See above, note 25. 
51 Cortes was created Marqués del Valle de Oaxaca in 1529, or ten years after his 
expedition from Cuba. See Introduction, this volume, p. 9. 
52 The last, or northernmost, settlement was Santa Bárbara. 
53 Cf. royal cédula to the president of the Casa de Contratación, Burgos, June 23, 
1603. This volume, pp. 407-409. 
54 Bolton ( Spanish Exploration, p. 206) states that in Spain Zaldivar asked for 300 
men as reinforcements for Oñate. The documents herein printed imply that Zaldivar 
only asked for 60 musketeers and professional shipbuilders and that he was authorized 
to recruit 40 such professionals. 
55 Philip II., the predecessor of the then ruler, Philip III. 
56 See above, note 17. 
57 See above, note 54. 
58 The Consulado was a court appointed to try and decide cases concerning trade and 
navigation, the president being called prior and the members cónsules. The official 
title of the consulado of Mexico was Universidad de los Mercaderes (Priestley, op. cit., 
PP. 70-74). 
