Index 
499 
Pueblos, see New Mexico 
Puerto Príncipe, founding - , 4 
Puga, Vasco de, oidor, Provisiones, 15m; re¬ 
port on petition, 45 
Purchase of office, 25, 115-119, 223 
Queres Indians, Espejo’s visit, 193; Oñate’s 
pacification, 210 
Querétaro, town, founding, 16; frontier ad¬ 
vance from, 14, 16 
Quesada de Figueroa, Juan, oidor, hearing be¬ 
fore, 463 
Quevedo, Francisco de, encomienda, 33 
Quicksilver, burned at Vera Cruz, 225; for 
Oñate’s and Ponce de Leon’s expeditions, 
231, 285, 297; royal, on board wrecked ship, 
. 223 
Quiros, Juan de, regidor, attestation, 451 
Quisahuistlan, name for Vera Cruz, 41 
Quivira, Alvarado’s expedition, 39; called Gran 
Ranchería, 465; Coronado’s expedition, 12 ; 
Humaña’s expedition, 194; Oñate’s expedi- 
. tion, 211, 465, 469, 47 L 475 , 479 , 483, 487 
Quizcey (Quescrey, Quicerey), encomienda, 
95 , 99 
Ramírez, Gabriel, public clerk, certificate, 421 
Ramirez de Velasco, Juan, and Ibarra, 117 
Rangel, Juan, alférez in Oñate’s expedition, 
evidence, 471, 473; age, 473 
Real acuerdo, 22, 377, 485 
Real patronato, 25 
Rebellion, suppression in Oñate’s and Ponce de 
Leon’s contracts, 289, 313, 337 
Recio, Alonso Pérez, 37 
Recopilación de Leyes de los Reynos de las In¬ 
dias, 20 
Recruiting, in Laws of Settlement, 265; power, 
in Oñate’s and Ponce de Leon’s contracts, 
247, 265, 267, 289, 297, 299, 307, 317 , 319 - 
323, 325 
Regidores, 25 
Regino Ramón, R., documentary history of 
Saltillo, i8n. 
Regular clergy, see Augustinians; Dominicans; 
Franciscans; Jesuits; Theatines 
Relator, 57 
Remón, Alonso, and Diaz’s Historia, 88 
Repartimientos, see Encomienda system 
Report of the Chief of the Weather Bureau, 
2ion. 
Requisitions, power in Oñate’s and Ponce de 
Leon’s contracts, 233, 247 
Residence, in Philippines, 279; requirement in 
Ponce de Leon’s contract, 291, 313, 321, 343 
Residencia, in Ponce de Leon’s contract, 319; 
of Cortés, 8; purpose, 24 
Revilla Gigedo Islands, discovery, 9 
Revista de Archivos, Bibliotecas, y Museos, 30m 
Reynes, Pedro Gómez, see Gómez Reynes 
Ribadeneyra, Hernando de, 445, 447 
Ribadeneyra, Leonor de, wife of Oñate, 441- 
45 L 455 , 459 
Riego, Santiago del, letter to king, 369; on 
College of San Juan de Lateran, 375; on 
condition of administration of estates, 375 ; 
on Oñate’s expedition, 204, 347, 369- 373 1 
on workshops at Puebla, 373; plea for pen¬ 
sion, 375 
Río Chuviscar, Oñate’s expedition at, 2o8n. 
Río Conchos, expeditions down, 193; settle¬ 
ment on, 16 
Rio de Grijalva, named, 5 
Rio de las Conchas, Oñate at, identity, 208, 
2o8n., 397 
Rio de las Nazas, as frontier, 17; Oñate at, 
198, 351 , 353 
Rio de las Palmas (Rio Grande), province, in 
Nuevo León, 18; jurisdiction, 6; under au¬ 
diencia of New Spain, 8 
Río de las Vacas de Cibola, Pecos River, 435, 
486 
Río de Losa, Rodrigo del, and New Mexico, 
194; governor of Nueva Vizcaya, and Urdi- 
ñola, 17; mines, 16 
Río de Pánuco, see Pánuco 
Rio del Nombre de Dios, Oñate at, 208 
Rio del Norte, see Rio Grande 
Río Fuerte region, attempted occupation, 16 
Rio Grande, Oñate’s expedition at, El Paso, 
209, 210; Zaldivar’s reconnaissance to, 209, 
397; see also Rio de las Palmas 
Rio Petatlan region, settlement, 16 
Río Salado (Pecos), exploration, 435 
Rio Verde, convent at, 73, 75, 79 
Rios, Baltasar Rodríguez de los, see Rodríguez 
de los Ríos 
Ríos, Pedro de los, factor, 223 
Rivera, Gabriel de, shipwrecked, 261 
Roads, safeguarding from Chichimecas, 105 
Robledo, Pedro, in Oñate’s expedition, declara¬ 
tion on manifest, 427 
Rodríguez, Fray Agustín, expedition to New 
Mexico, fate, 113, 122, 193 
Rodríguez, Garcia, report on services, 57-63 
Rodríguez, Juan, report on services, 39 
Rodríguez. Cabrillo, Juan, voyage, 13 
Rodriguez de Figueroa, Estévan, sells ship to 
government, 261 
Rodríguez de los Ríos, Baltasar, age, 449; evi¬ 
dence, 447-451 
Rodríguez Francés, Francisco, 35 
Rodríguez Francés, Juan, report on services, 
35 , 37 
Rodriguez Parra, Alonso, report on services, 
49 
Rodriguez Parra, Juan, report on services, 49 
Rodríguez Torquemada, Bartolomé, regidor, 
attestations, 467, 469 
Roman Catholic Church, see Church 
Romero, Alférez -, with Oñate’s expedition, 
witness, 425 
Ronquillo, Gonzalo, governor of Philippines, 
87 
Roxas, Isabel de, wife of Maldonado, and of 
Luna y Arellano, 49 
Ruis de Alanis, Juan, services, 81, 83 
Ruis de Castañeda, Antonio, encomienda, 83; 
petition for aid, 83 
Ruiz, Juan, evidence, 51 
Ruiz Villafuerte, Juan, see Villafuerte 
Sacramento River, and New Mexican southern 
boundary, 208 
St. Augustine, founding, 18 
