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Index 
Méndez, Cristóbal, report on services, 43, 45 
Méndez de Sotomayor, Beatrice, wife of Madrid 
Avendaño, 79 
Mendoza, Antonio de, and report of Cabeza de 
Vaca, Fray Marcos’s reconnaissance, 11; 
Coronado’s expedition, 12; first viceroy, 9; 
land ordinances, 175, i 70 n.; Mixton war, 
45; naval expeditions, 13 
Mendoza, Magdalena de, wife of Orlate, 443, 
447, 449, 453, 457 , 461 . 
Mendoza, Magdalena de, wife of Zaldivar, 443, 
447, 449, 453, 457 
Mendoza y Luna, Juan de, see Montesclaros 
Menéndez de Avilés y Márquez, Pedro, Florida, 
18, 19 . 
Mérida, Maria (Magdalena) de, wife of Riba- 
deneyra, 445, 447 
Merriman, Roger B., Rise of the Spanish Em¬ 
pire, 2on. 
Mexía Melgarejo, Pedro, petition as attorney, 
9 1 
Mexico, see New Spain 
Mexico, city of, capture, 6; muster of Ofiate’s 
force, 417, 435 ; Temistitán, 43,^ 86 
Military, power of viceroy, assistants, 23; 
power to name officers in Ofiate’s and 
Ponce de Leon’s contracts, 239, 265, 319, 
323 
Mill site, size, 181 
Mining, and frontier advance, 14, 15; develop¬ 
ment in Nueva Vizcaya, Ibarra’s activity, 
15, 16, hi, 113; Guanajuato and Querétaro 
regions, 16; protest on decree in Nueva 
Vizcaya, 105, 107; reports of New Mexican 
prospects, 193, 211; rights in Ofiate’s and 
Ponce de Leon’s contracts, tax, 243, 287, 
315, 333; royal fifth, 55, 87, 109, 113, 115 ; 
salt and silver refining, 93 ; San Luís Potosí 
region, 17 ; see also Quicksilver 
Miramaya (Miramamaya), encomienda, 95 
Missions, aid to friars in Nueva Galicia, 93, 95; 
at Rio Verde, 71-75, 79; at San Felipe, 16; 
Florida, 18, 19; Franciscans in Nueva 
Vizcaya, maintenance, 107, 109; in Ofiate’s 
and Ponce de Leon’s contracts, 233, 305, 
307, 311, 343, 415, 417; monasteries for 
Chichimeca lands, 155, 157; number bap¬ 
tized in New Mexico, 465, 473, 483; perma¬ 
nent encomiendas and, 133, 139, 147; or¬ 
ders, political significance, 26; quality of 
conversions, 161; royal order on Francis¬ 
cans and Jesuits in Nueva Vizcaya, 121 
Mixton war, 13, 87; encomiendas and, 139; 
Méndez’s services, 43, 45 
Molinedo, Fray Juan Bautista, Indian mission, 
71-79 
Molino, measurement, 181 
Monclova, temporary villa at, 18 
Money (bullion), as cargo, and fraud, 225: for 
Philippines, 263, 484; see also Silver 
Monopoly, royal, salt in Nueva Galicia, 93 
Montarlo, Francisco, report on services, 31 
Montejo, Francisco de, governorship, 8; in Yu¬ 
catán, grants, 53, 87 
Monterey, Conde de (Gaspar de Zuñiga y Ace¬ 
vedo), viceroy, and contract and prepara¬ 
tions of Ofiate, 197, 257, 265-279, 293, 363, 
369, 377, 389, 391, 421; and Ofiate-Ponce 
de León contest, reasons for supporting 
Ofiate, 203-207, 303, 331 , 335 , 345 , 347 , 377 - 
395; appeal to audiencia on contest, 205, 
379, 381, 391; arrival, 255; attitude toward 
Ofiate, 207, 209, 267, 271, 301, 395; investi¬ 
gation of Ofiate’s rule, 213, 413; letters of, 
257, 259, 377; letter to, 353; on trouble over 
Philippine ships, 259-263; royal orders to, 
121, 303, 33 i( 2 ), 335 , 345 
Monterey, founded as San Luis, 18; site 
reached, 17 
Montesclaros, Marqués de (Juan de Mendoza 
y Luna), viceroy, and Ofiate, 213-215, 411- 
415; royal orders to, 409, 413, 4*5 
Montezuma, overthrow, 6 
Montilla, Juan de, public crier, 175, 176m 
Montoya, Juan Martinez de, see Martinez de 
Montoya 
Moqui pueblo, Espejo at, 193; Ofiate at, 211 
Moreno de Carrua, Juan, with Ofiate’s expedi¬ 
tion, witness, 425 
Morlete, Juan, pursuit of Castaño, 219 
Morquecho, Diego Núñez, see Núñez Morque- 
cho 
Moses, Bernard, Spanish Dependencies, 2on. 
Moya, Antonio de, petition as attorney, 57 
Muñiz, Leonor, wife of Rodriguez Francés, 35 
Muñón, Sancho Sánchez de, pension, 85 
Muñoz, Alonso, in Mexico, 53, 87 
Muñoz, Francisco, evidence, 51 
Musketeers, from Spain for Ofiate, 212, 213, 
401, 405-411 
Nabolama, encomienda, 95 
Narváez, Pánfilo de, and Cortés, 6; Gulf coast 
expedition, 6; in Cuba, 4; participant in ex¬ 
pedition, 35; search for survivors, 33 
Negrete, Antonio, clerk with Ofiate’s expedi¬ 
tion, 351, 425 
Negroes, see Slavery 
New Laws, not executed, 165; petitions against, 
arguments, 125, 129, 143, 147; purpose, op¬ 
position, 27; see also Encomienda 
New Mexico, Castafio’s expedition, 193, 219, 
301; charges against Ofiate, investigation, 
resignation, 212-215, 411-417; Cibola, Coro¬ 
nado’s expedition, 10-12; claims to, 113, 
115, 193, 194; colonists desert, brought 
back, 212; conquest authorized, 194; crisis, 
preserved, new governor, 215, 413-417; 
Council of the Indies and, 293, 295, 301- 
305; Espejo’s expedition, 193; Espejo’s 
proposals, 195; formal possession taken, 
210; Humafia’s expedition, 194, 227, 315; 
independence from New Spain, 196, 197, 
213, 247, 269, 271, 289, 309, 317, 343, 405; 
Lomas’s proposals, 195, 301; Martin’s pro¬ 
posals, 194; Monterey’s attitude and respon¬ 
sibility for contest, 207; number of Indians 
baptized, 465, 473, 483; Ofiate agency to 
king, re-enforcements, 212-214, 401-413; 
Oñate-Ponce de León contest for gover¬ 
norship, 196-207; Ofiate’s advance and con¬ 
quest, 207-211, 395, 397; Ofiate’s contract 
and modifications, 196, 212, 225-257, 265- 
279 , 397 , 399, 403, 405; Ofiate’s expedition 
checked, his attitude, efforts in his behalf, 
200-206, 303, 321, 335, 351 - 395 ; Ofiate’s ex- 
