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Death of Íñigo de Velasco; promotion to governor by order of Luis de Velasco; Ignacio de Loyola.
Printed: LBA I, 84-85.
Entrance of Dutch ships in Buenos Aires and Chile; death of Lorenzo Suárez de Figueroa; appointment of Beltrán Otazú de Guevara by Luis de Velasco.
Misery of provinces; closing of port of Buenos Aires; difficulty of trade via Perú; pirate raids on coast towns; roads from Chile and Perú. Transmision by Francisco López de Anduezo; capture of Santiago; attack by English and Dutch.
Printed: LBA I, 82-83.
Recommendation by Juan Rodríguez (?) de Cepeda; services against Chiriguanos; signed by Álvaro Ruiz de Navamuel. Copy by Diego Sánchez at request of Diego González Holguín. October 3, 1600.
Printed: MA III, 149-152.
Report of Martín Ignacio de Loyola; petition for opening the port of Buenos Aires. Signed: Francisco de Salas, Bartolomé López, Antonio Bermúdez, Pedro Morán, Pedro Bernal, Juan Ramírez de Abreu, and Mateo Sánchez.
Printed: LBA I, 69-70.
Work of friars: Alonso de San Buenaventura, Luis de Bolaños, Miguel de San Diego, Agustín de Moya, Antonio de la Cruz, Alonso Velázquez. Alonso de Auñón, Francisco de la Cruz, Diego de Santa Ana, Bernardino de Guzmán; work among Indians; Chiriguanos, Bios, Biuz, Buay, Guairá, Cimarrones, Montañeses, Cachines, Charrúas, Tupí, Viaza; churches and reductions built among various Indian tribes.
Activities of Fray Gregorio de Osuna, Fray Juan de Escobar, Fray Francisco de Losa, Fray Luis Gómez, Fray Antonio del Castillo, Fray Andrés Vázquez, Fray Juan Polo, Fray Francisco de la Cruz; attitude of Indians toward missionaries.
Signed: “Fray Juan de Spinosa, Obispo de Sanctiago de Chile”.
Request for new bishop and that Hernandarias Saavedra be made governor. Signed: Manuel de Frías, Antonio de Acevedo, Cristóbal Arévalo, Juan Torres Pineda, Miguel Tomás, Alonso de San Miguel, Juan Ramírez, Cristóbal Matute Altamirano.
Discord between governor and bishop; ousting of all unauthorized Portuguese.
Printed: PC XIX, 186-188.
Settlements in the Cordillera de los Chiriguanos; mines of Potosí; report of Audiencia of Charcas; signed Juan de Ibarra.
Printed: MJL, II, 204-205; MA III, 49-51.
Printed: PC XIX, 193-195.
Signed: Felipe de Cáceres, Juan Caballero Bazán, Antonio de la Madrid, Juan Núñez Vaca, Luis de Toledo, Pedro Arias de Mansilla, Juan Espinosa, Alonso Cabrera, Diego de Olabarrieta, and Pedro Sánchez Valderrama.
Signed: Felipe de Cáceres, Juan de Ravalgo [Caballero?] de Bazán, Antonio de La Madrid, Juan Núñez Vaca, Luis (de Toledo?), Antonio Cabrera, Diego Arias de Mansilla, Juan de Espinosa, Diego de Olabarrieta, Pedro Sánchez Valderrama, Gabriel Sánchez. Same as No. 352 infra.
Signed: Felipe de Cáceres, Juan Ravalgo [Caballero?] de Bazán, Antonio de la Madrid, Juan Núñez Vaca, Antonio Cabrera, Luis (de Toledo?), Diego, Arias de Mansilla, Juan de Espinosa, Antonio de Olabarrieta, Pedro Sánchez Valderrama, and Gabriel Sánchez.
Request for authority to govern Chiriguano frontier with permanent title of Captain General.
Conduct of Hernandarias; need for defense measures. Signed: Tomás de Garay, Antonio de Benavides, Juan de Garay, Antonio Fernández Barón, Juan Ramírez de Abreu, Juan Nieto de Mianes de Molina.
Request for pension for service to King.
Customs of Chiriguanos; Pedro de Segura Zavala; Irala; Zavala's request for Río de la Plata, Santa Cruz, Tucumán, and Tomina; payments from Potosí; encomienda for farms and mills; mines of Saypurú; pacification of Chiriguanos, Chanés, and Tobas; San Juan de Rodas; equipment to be supplied; Indians from Tarabuco, Pachapuna, Yotala, and Quilaquila; work of Mulatos, Zambaygos (?),
Printed: MA III, 57-64.
Genealogy of Sanabria family; petition for grant of money or Indians and title in a military order; Andrés Manso; Nufrio de Chaves; Felipe de Cáceres; Martín Suárez de Toledo; Juan de Garay; Gonzalo de Abreu; Hernando de Lerma; Alonso de Vera; Alonso Vellido; Fernando de Zárate; Francisco Martínez de Leyva; Mencia Calderón; Diego de Sanabria; Alonso de Sotomayor; Juan Torres de Vera; Juana de Zárate; Juan Ortiz de Zárate; Gerónimo Contreras; Hernando de Salazar; Cristóbal Saavedra; Indian war in Tucumán; Caraiba, Guaicurú, and Charrúa Indians; settlement of Río Bermejo, Corrientes, Santo Domingo de la Nueva Rioja, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Buenos Aires, Los Timbús, Santa Fe, and San Salvador; election to cabildo of Asunción; discovery of Los Nuguaras (Nuaras?); English in Buenos Aires; discovery of Chiriguanos and Tamacocies; Port of San Gabriel; Island of Maldonado; expedition to Brazil; Guinea; French pirates; Island of Santa Catalina.
Essentially same as No. 361
Failure to visit provinces of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Tucumán, and La Plata. Same as No. 360.
Signed Andrés de Laredo.
Proposed removal to Punta de Madrid.
Reference to famous
Formal ceremonies attending occasion.
Removal because of poverty of town.
Testimony by Antonio de Asquete concerning founding of San Bernardo de Tarija; expenses incurred; war with Indians; Chiriguano wars; services of San Francisco de Zárate, Gabriel Paniagua de Loaisa, Francisco de Cevallos, and Diego Pantoja; silver mines of Potosí; founding of Tomina, El Villar, La Lagunilla, Paspaya, Pilaya, Salta, Jujuy, and San Miguel de la Laguna; collection of tributes in Province of Los Chichas; cattle raising at Tarija; construction of church; assault on Hancienda of Gerónimo González de Alanís, (Chalamarca); Agustín de Ahumada appointed Governor of Tucumán; pacification of Colcha, Cotagayta, and Talina Indians; security of roads to Tucumán, Paraguay, Buenos Aires, and Chile; family of Porcio Pórcel de Peralta; Diego de la Barrera de Ayola; Diego Enriquez de Montemayor; Gonzalo Flores de Chávez; Alonso Maldonado de Torres; Juan Pórcel de Padilla; Juan Rodríguez Durán; Lorenzo Suárez de Figueroa; Francisco de Toledo; Padre Zambrano. See No. 371.
Same as No. 370 except for date plus testimony of Capt. Juan Rodríguez Durán; campaign of Antonio de Robles; rebuilding of towns of Calcha, Cotagaito, and Talina; monasteries of San Agustín and Santo Domingo; Chicha Indians in Vitapua; assault on Camataqui; Chiriguanos attack on Tarija; wounds of Diego Recio; death of Juan Macías and Ana de Ángulo; services of Miguel García de Rojas; Don Fernando, Chiriguano cacique; Río de San Juan; Río de Santa Ana.
Merits of Fuentes as peacemaker with Chiriguanos.
Signed: Francisco de Santa Cruz, Bernardo de Espinosa, Antonio de la Vega, Francisco [Gra...?] de Villamayor, Hernando de Mendoza, Francisco de Gamarra, Hernando de Pobatos, Florencio Gutiérrez, Hernando de Encinas, Juan de Porras de la Masilla, Blas Simón, Juan Romero, and Juan de Rodas.
Influx of foreigners into Spanish territories in New World; merits of Hernandarias; commerce at port of Buenos Aires.
Testimonies of Bernardo de la Rivera Altamirano, Pedro Vélez Samaniego, Juan Manrique de Salazar, P. Diego Martínez, Juan Lozano del Pilar, Gómez Yáñez de Amaya, Juan de Losa Baraona, and Pbto. Fernando Botello (interpreter); frontier towns; Chiriguano war; founding of San Lorenzo de la Barranca and San Bartolomé; battle at Coyagua; settlements among the Caribes; Indians: Chiriguanos, Tamacosis, Xaraes, Yuracares, Yanaconas, and Motilones; mines of Potosí; Fort of San Gabriel; Province of Itacones; frontiers of Tomina; town of [V]itapue; Francisco de Alfaro; Juan Bautista de la Gasca; Hernando de Cazorla; Cacique Carypui; Diego de Mendoza; Fray Francisco de Mendoza; Juan de Mendoza; Don Beltrán de Otazú y Guevara; Juan de Paredes; Suárez de Figueroa; Juan de Torres Palomino; mention of Arias de Ugarte; Pedro de Ulloa; Signed before Pedro López de la Gasca. Includes also “Titulo de Poblador de la dicha ciudad de San Lorenzo que me dió Vuestro visorey Marqués de Cañete;” with provisions of the commission; also includes letter of La Plata, September 16, 1585, signed by Lic. Cepeda and Francisco de Vera, on services of Solís Holguín; relationship with Doña Mencia de Sanabria, Cristóbal de Saavedra, Doña Mencia Calderón, and Juan de Sanabria; copy by Martín de Galarza.
Printed: MA III, 80-93, but without testimony of Vélez de Samaniego, Diego Martínez, S. J., Juan Lozano del Pilar, Gómez Yáñez de Amaya, Juan de Losa Baraona, and Fernando Botello.
Relations with Pedro Hurtado de Mendoza (Procurador general of the Río de la Plata), Juan Ramírez de Velasco, Diego Rodríguez de Valdés; request for appointment as governor of La Plata; conditions in Concepción, Vera, and Santiago de Jerez.
Services of Solís Holguín collected by Pedro Rodríguez de Parraga; military and civil administrations, 1567-1604; Jesuits in La Plata region; movement of Santa Cruz to San Lorenzo; fortification of Jesuit College; Province of Los Chiquitos; expendition of Chaves; antidote for poisoned arrows; campaigns against Chiriguanos; Francisco de Alfaro; San Francisco de Alfaro; Lorenzo Suárez de Figueroa; Martín de Almendras Holguín; Luis de Velasco.
Services in Chiriguano wars; genealogy of Juan de Sanabria; request for pension and membership in a military order; English in Peru; Itapúa; rule of the Audiencia; Valley of Mizque; Plains of Grigota; Itatín; founding of San Juan and Santa Cruz de la Frontera; Juan de Ladrón de Leyva; Lorenzo de Figueroa; Hernando de Cazorla Narváez; death of Martín Enríquez; Pedro Zotez (Lotes?) de Ulloa; Marqués de Cañete; Don Beltrán (Otazú de Guevara?); Juan de Mendoza; Mencia de Rivera; Cristóbal de Saavedra; Mencia de Sanabria; Martín Suárez de Figueroa; Arias de Saavedra; Chiriguano, Yuracare, Tamacoci, Xon, Tamaguali, and Zoracare Indians.
Printed: MA III, 65-79.
Expedition of Juan de Mendoza to province of los Mojos; founding of la Santísima Trinidad.
Signed: Pedro Manrique de Mendoza, Domingo Berdejo de Rojas, Bartolomé de Vergara, Diego Martín? [sic] de Yrala, Diego López de Prado, Lucas Hernández, Sebastián de Heredia, Juan de Estigarribia, Bartolomé de Medina, Juan Romano de Montiel, Alonso Domínguez, Notary.
Juan de Borja; Mateo de Ayca; Juan de Ybarra.
Entrada of governor Juan de Mendoza against the Mojos. Signed: Bejarano Ruiz, Miguel de Horozco, and Manuel de Castro y Padilla. Mention of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, San Lorenzo, and Luis de Velasco, Francisco de Toledo, Francisco de Alfaro, settlement in los Mojos; settlement of los Timbús; province of los Chiquitos; Lorenzo Suárez de Figueroa; belligerence of Chiriguanos.
Trouble with Chané Indians; missionary work; Luis de Velasco; Conde de Monterrey.
Creation of bishoprics of La Paz and Santa Cruz.
Administration of Bishoprics of La Plata, La Paz, San Lorenzo de Chuquiabo, and La Barranca de Santa Cruz; jurisdiction and income of dioceses.
Printed: MJL XI, 86-89; MBP II, 635-637, with one lacuna.
Conde del Villar; power of Audiencia de los Reyes; death of Conde de Monterrey.
Printed: MJL II, 270-271; ECP, Anexo 37, 173-174.
Cacique Cuyayuru; desire of Chiriguanos to be Christianized; Juan de Mendoza; offer of Hernando Jaramillo.
Printed: GFA Doc. viii, 363.
Contract of Leiva to establish town in valley of Supas; details of contract; testimony of Pedro Osores de Ulloa, Juan de Loza, and Luis de Fuentes concerning his services to the crown; service with Rodrigo de Quiroga; war on Chiriguanos.
Settlement of Mojos province; founding of San Francisco de Alfaro in Los Chiquitos province; submission of the Chiriguanos; administration of Juan de Mendoza in Santa Cruz de la Sierra; exploration of Los Chiquitos province; aid given by San Lorenzo; Luis de Velasco; Francisco de Alfaro.
Recommendations concerning Santa Cruz, Tucumán, and Paraguay; offer of Hernando Jaramillo; need for maintaining settlements near Santa Cruz; administration of Juan de Mendoza; Nufrio de Chaves.
Printed: GFA, Doc. xi, 383-84, complete.
Exploration of los Chiquitos and los Mojos; Government of Francisco de Alfaro in Santa Cruz; removal of city to Coyoca near San Lorenzo; execution of Luis de Mendoza peace talks with Chiriguanos; Cacique Cuyayura; reconnaissance of Province of Los Chiquitos; Luis de Mendoza's entrada to province of Los Mojos; interpreter Sebastián Rodríguez; request for priests by Chiriguanos near Tarija; charges against Juan de Mendoza; suspension of Alfaro; substitution of Martín Almendras Holguín; leadership of Sebastián Rodríguez; Signed: Ruiz Bejarano, Miguel de Horozco, Manuel de Castro Padilla.
Printed GFA Doc. viii, 368-76.
Need for improvement of defenses of Buenos Aires; conditions in the city; poverty of descendents of conquistadors.
Evidence of French corsairs on Island of Maldonado.
Printed: BG II, 48; LBA I, 233-234, complete.
Attack and depredations made by French corsair; desirability of settling Montevideo; arrival of Bernardo Pecador and Matías López; refuge on Island of Maldonado; fleet of Antonio Mosquera.
Printed: LBA I, 191-196.
Town founded August 16, 1605; town officers: Diego de Mendoza, Santiago de Avendaño, Alonso López de Vera, Francisco Núñez Durán, Diego Tristán, Alonso Núñez Becerra, Antonio de Sanabria, Marcos Rodríguez, Sebastián del Valle, Francisco de Carrión, Francisco de Trejo, Juan Rodríguez de heredia; work of Jesuits.
Reference to search for province of
Permission to import 300 negroes annually for labor; request for 200 families from Spain to replace those killed by plague of 1605-06; request for artillery.
Founding of Ontiveros by García Rodríguez and Villarrica by Ruy Díaz; rebellion of Caraiba Indians; government of Guairá; exploration of Miguazos lands by Antonio de Añasco; aid to Portuguese; settlement of los Noazas; rebellion of Diego Zúñiga; war on Guaicurús; town of Xeres; “Provincias del Embraça”; removal of the town of Espíritu Santo on río del Ubay; testimony of Pedro Rodríguez (regidor of Ciudad Real); fight with Tupí Indians; “Asiento de Mambay”; Town of Santiago de Jeres; Ayolas; Arias de Saavedra; Francisco de Alfaro; Diego Arias de Mancilla; Luis de Acevedo; Blas de Almeda (notary); Juan Bautista de Loza; Cabeza de Vaca; Nufrio de Chaves; Felipe de Cáceres; Alonso Cabrera; Juan Caballero de Bazán; Manuel de Castro y Padilla; Ruy Díaz de Guzmán, Sr.; Andrés Díaz; Juan de Espinosa; Eduarda de Guzmán; Diego González de Santa Cruz; Úrsula de Irala; Martín de irala; Diego Jara; Fernando de Lerma; Gerónimo Layton; Doctor de La Gasca; Gerónimo López; Antonio de la Madrid; Gonzalo de Mendoza; Captain Melgarejo; Diego de Mendieta; Fernando de Mendoza; Juan Martínez Vaca; Pablo Maldonado; Francisco Mizmigo; Baltazar Martín; alcaldes de la Hermandad, Juan Mayano and Domingo Machado; Juan Medel; Domingo Núñez de Yrala; Francisco Ortiz de Vergara; Juan Ortiz de Zárate; Miguel de Orozco; Juan de las Oces; Juan de Oviedo; Antonio de Ocaña; Violante Ponce de León; Esteapo (Serapio?) Ponce de León; Gonzalo Pizarro; Diego Pineda; Alonso Riquelme de Guzmán; Juan Ramírez de Velasco; Diego Rodríguez de Valdés; Ruiz Bejarano; Pedro Rodríguez; Bartolomé de Sandoval; Agustín Sánchez de Santander; Gabriel Sánchez (notary); Pedro de Santillán; Juan de Torres de Vera y Aragón; Juan de Torres Navarrete; Catalina de Vera; Juan de Vear de Zúñiga; Indians: Virayana, Casavindos, Cochinocas, and Goxchipas; Fernando de Zárate; Diego de Zúñiga; Town of La Trinidad; Cabildo of Asunción; Cabildo of La Ciudad Real; expedition to the Ybirayaras; Río de Ytangua; Río del Antelagiba; frontiers of Guiratembe; Port of San Francisco.
Printed: GAB IX.
Isolation of Paraguay; praise of Pedro Martínez de Zavala.
Printed: LBA I, 186-187.
Treatment of Indians; character of towns; epidemic of measles; inspection of San Blas del Itá; new town of San Isidro de Itapé; recent founding of Villarrica; settlement at the portage of Tobatí; Arecutaquá; apostasy of mistreated Indians; seclusion of Jesuit missions of Paraguay and Uruguay.
Services from 1588-1608 with emphasis on latter half of period; testimony by Martín de Almendras Holguín, Fray Lorenzo de Tejeda, Esteban Gutiérrez, Fray Pedro de Villacorta Sarmiento, Pbto. Hernán Rodríguez, Lic. Francisco de Alfaro, and Fray Pedro de Zurita; antidote for poisoned arrows; settlement in Los Chiquitos Province; Marqués de Montesclaros; Francisco de Coimbra; Sebastián de Orive; Luis de Velasco; Alonso Maldonado de Torres; Cáceres (Spain); Miguel de Orozco; Juan Bautista de la Gasca; Cristóval de Tovar; Juan de Mendoza; founding of San Francisco de Alfaro; Province of Paratis; Martín Vela Granado; Francisco de Toledo; Beltrán de Otazú de Guevara; Plains of Grigota; city of Salinas; Pisuerga River; removal of Santa Cruz la Vieja.
Reference to Gaspar Doncel.
Mines of Oruro; town of San Felipe de Austria; work of Felipe de Godoy; conversion of Chiriguanos; jurisdiction of Santa Cruz and Mojos; complaints of Juan de Mendoza to Luis de Velasco; work of Francisco de Toledo; opinion of Francisco de Alfaro; settlement in province of Chiquitos; administration of Lorenzo Suárez de Figueroa. Signed: Ruiz Bejarano, Miguel de Horozco, and Manuel de Castro y Padilla.
Relations with Cacique Tambaberá; request for priests; death of Conde de Monterrey; Jesuit mission.
Journey from Chile to Córdoba; opinion on mestizos.
Jurisdiction of the Audiencia of Chile; petition to trade with Brazil and Angola; prohibited transit of wagons between Buenos Aires and Córdoba; work of Alonso de Sotomayor; Francisco Martínez de Leyva; Hernandarias de Saavedra. Signed: Luis de Abreu de Albornoz, Gaspar de Quevedo, Luciano de Figueroa, Ruy de Sosa, Sebastián de Tejeda, Pedro de las Casas, Fabian Maldonado.
Inconveniences suffered enroute from Córdoba to La Plata; plague of locusts in Santa Fe.
Request of Alonso de Rivera; cabildo de la Nueva Rioja.
Orders of Hernandarias de Saavedra for expedition.
Proposal of Hernandarias for creation of a government for Guairá.
Transmitted by Pedro Fernández de Castro and Francisco Tejada.
Printed: LBA I, 273.
Contains cédula of August 20, 1602 on same subject. Prohibition of commerce in gold, silver, slaves, or passengers. For another copy see No. 420 infra.
Printed: LBA I, 274-7; ZGP 53-55 (cédula of 1602); PC XVIII, 323-326 (cedula of 1602).
Work of Martín Ignacio de Loyola; exclusion of slaves; use of ports of Buenos Aires and La Trinidad; cédula of August 20, 1602, providing for a 6-year extension of the trading permit; Juan de Ibarra; Antonio Díaz de Navarrete. Same as No. 419 but from different source.
Printed: LBA I, 302-305.
Recommendations of Arias de Saavedra; need for settling Biaza and Santa Catalina Island; danger from Portuguese; grant to Rasquín; fertility of the land; conversion of Indians; signed: Gabriel de Hoa.
Printed: MJL II, 290-291; MA III, 164-165; MBP I, 227-228.
Printed: LBA I, 278.
Indian distrust of Jesuits; data on Guaraní language; founding of college in Tarija; attitude of creole priests toward king; College of Ocopa. Paragraphs 111 and 112 of a longer work.
Conditions in Santa Fe; plagues and locusts in region; diocese of Asunción; commerce with Brazil; praise of Hernandarias, Fray Pedro Sierra, and González de Santa Cruz.
Report of Alonso de Rivera; conditions of Indians.
Submission of Chiriguanos; data on Sebastián Rodríguez, Martín de Almendras Holguín, Juan de Mendoza, and Julio Terrufino. Signed: Ruiz Bejarano, Miguel de Orozco, Manuel de Castro, and Loaisa y Calderón.
Limits of bishoprics of La Plata, La Paz, and San Lorenzo de la Barranca in Santa Cruz de la Sierra; Atacama and Lípez; bishoprics of Tucumán and Paraguay; Jesuit activity.
Printed: MJL XI, 80-83.
Signed: Gabriel de Hoa.
Printed: MA III, 166-167, complete.
Distribution of schools.
Enumeration of arms and supplies needed.
Indian labor in mines of Potosí.
Administrations (1569-?) of Martín Suárez de Toledo, Felipe de Cáceres. Juan Ortiz de Zárate, Luis Osorio, Juan de Garay, and Adame de la Barsi (Olaberriaga?).
Need for a college. Signed: Juan Antonio de Añasco, Francisco González de Santa Cruz, Martín Insabralde, Juan de Rocas, Lucas de Valbuena y Ocampo, Pedro Díaz Adorno, Diego González, Lorenzo Gutiérrez, and Juan de Valenzuela.
Fragment description of Villarrica; expedition to punish Indians near Jerez.
Discovery and conquest of Chaco; relations with Guairá Indians.
Francisco de Alfaro; Gonzalo de Solís Holguín; discoveries by Hernándarias de Saavedra; Alonso Maldonado de Torres; decrease of population in Tucumán. Signed: Ruiz Bejarano, Miguel de Orozco, Juan de Loaisa y Calderón, Francisco de Quijano, and Diego Muñoz de Cuéllar.
Government of Hernando Arias de Saavedra; jurisdiction of Buenos Aires; description of Ciudad Real (Guairá), Río Paraná, Río Picari, Villarrica (del Espíritu Santo) and (Santiago de) Jerez; poor communication with Paraguay, Trinidad, Santa Fe; San Juan de Vera (Siete Corrientes), Concepción del Río Bermejo, and Villa de San Pablo (Portuguese).
Printed: MA III, 268-282, complete.
Juan Santiago de Velasco, Lieutenant Governor of Vera; Captain Diego González de Santa Cruz, Lieutenant Governor in Concepción, Captain Salvador Barbosa, Lieutenant Governor in Santa Fe; Captain Gabriel de Hermosillo; Captain Diego de Vega; Juan Pérez de Godoy; Pedro de Espinosa; Miguel Tomás; Ricardo Alonso del Granado; Francisco Diez de Burgos; Juan de Vergara; expedition to province of Los Césares and Uruguay.
Complaints about Santiago de Velasco; appointment of creoles to public offices. Signed; Fernando de Mendoza, Luis González de Arcamendea, Francisco Vela, Gonzalo Suárez de Figueroa, Diego Porbello, Diego Arias de Mansilla, Juan de Ranua, Martín Suárez de Toledo, and Juan Ramos de Vera.
Ecclesiastics of merit in diocese; removal of see to Buenos Aires. Death of Reginaldo de Lizárraga. Signed: Pedro Fontana de Zárate, Pedro Manrique de Medina; Felipe Franco, Francisco Resquino, and Juan López de Gamarra.
Request for extension of permission to trade with Brazil; petition of Manuel de Frías.
Printed: LBA I, 291-292.
Eighty-five ordenanzas to improve condition of Indians and end personal service; includes copies of two cedulas, 1605 and 1606, respectively, ordering that a visita be made to ascertain extent of evils in relations between Spaniards and Indians; appointment of Diego de Portugal; freeing of slaves; sale of slaves by Guaicurús; reduction of encomiendas; penal service in Chile; conditions in Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, Vera, Asunción, and Concepción del Río Bermejo; Yanaconas Indians; use of Indian officials; role of the Hermandad; Gabriel de Goa; Nuño Núñez de Villavicencio; Alonso Maldonado de Torres; Juan Bautista de la Gasca (notary); Rio de Luján; with acceptance of the ordinances by the Cabildo of Asunción, October 11, 1611, signed: Diego González Santa Cruz, Melchor Calvo, Miguel Gilaporte, Bartolomé Gómez Maldonado, Bartolomé de Lescano, Juan de Rojas de Aranda, Antonio de la Vega, Pedro Sianto de Añasco, procurador Gailanegas, governor Diego María (sic) Negrón; includes also indorsements by Alfaro on taxation of Indians, Asunción, October 11, 1611, and Matalá, October 27, 1611; establishment of fixed prices for local products; Lienzo de algodón; madres de mecha, guascas de chaguara, guasca, costales de chaguaré; encomiendas of Isabel de Salazar, Antón Martín de Don Benito; Gaspar de Sequero; notarized by Alonso Navarro.
Printed: MA III, 299-342 (first 58 folios); 343-345 (indorsement of October 11, 1611); MBP I, 242-243 (folios 14v-15, 24-25 only).
Portugueses influence described.
Diego de Torres; Hernando Arias; Diego Marín; conversion of Indians.
Printed: MET 45-46, incomplete.
One hundred and twenty ordinances; cedula of October 2, 1605 and of March 27, 1606, ordering and inspection for improvement of Indian status. Similar in tone but not identical with the ordinances promulgated by Alfaro for Paraguay and Río de la Plata in 1611; provisions for city of Santiago, towns of the Río Dulce, Río Salado, La Sierra de Santiago, La Rioja, San Juan, Calchaquí, and San Miguel de Tucumán; modifications: slavery, reductions, repartimientos, encomiendas, religious instruction, personal service, and taxes; references to Osas, Ocloyas, the Pampas; “Lules,” “Malocas,” Umaguacas, Cochinocas, Casavindos, Atacamas; “algarrobales de Córdoba,” Catamarca, and Famatina; Río Bermejo en Salta; role of La Hermandad.
Printed: LBA II, 291-328.
Includes dissent of procuradores generales of seven other cities; notification to Governor Luis de Quiñones Osorio and the Cabildo (Fernando de Quintana, Lieautenant Governor Diego de Cepeda, Alonso de Herrera, Juan Sotelo, Gómez Suárez Cordera, Juan de Celaya, Diego Fernández de Andrada, Lope Bravo), and representatives Pedro Martínez de Tejada and Francisco Mejía Miravel from Tucumán; Luis de Medina from San Miguel de Tucumán; Luis de Ábrego de Albornoz from Córdoba; Gonzalo de Carbajal, from Lerma, and Valle de Salta; Diego Gutiérrez Gallegos, from Jujuy; Cristóbal de Contreras; San Juan Bautista de la Rivera; witnessed by Fernando de Toledo, Juan de Lisondo, Justo López, and Alonso Navarro.
Printed: LBA II, 328-329.
Luis de Quiñones Osorio, Diego Fernández de Andrada.
Printed: LBA II, 329.
Jesuit activities; Portuguese incursions; mines of Francisco de Sosa.
Printed: LBA II, 329-331.
Notarized by Alonso Navarro.
Printed: LBA II, 331-332.
Spanish-Indian relations; promulgation of the ordinances; reforms of Arias de Saavedra.
Printed: LBA II, 287-291.
Poverty of Tucumán and Paraguay; Juan Romero, Alonso de la Camara, Gregorio Martínez Campuzcano, Juan de Vergara, Manuel de Frías, Francisco de Burgos, Felipe de Castro.
Printed: LBA I, 295-296.
Signed: Gerónimo Gacete, Diego González, Bartolomé González, Miguel de Peralta, Antonio Cardozo, Juan Domínguez, Pedro Portillo, Pedro Cardozo, and Francisco Chanches; difficulty of communication with Buenos Aires; mission of Tomás Marín de Yante, Alcalde Felipe Romero; poverty of city.
Printed: GFA Doc. xxv, 462-463.
High prices and scarcity due to monopoly of goods at Buenos Aires. Includes also order of Lieutenant Governor Sánchez Valderrama, same date, for testimony to be taken from Felipe Franco, Canónigo of cathedral of Asunción; Pedro González de Santa Cruz, presbítero; Pedro Isbrán, cura; Captain Francisco González de Santa Cruz; and Captain Juan Cabrera.
Biographical data; Martín Suárez de Toledo; Nufrio de Chaves; Alonso Velledo; marriage with Gerónima de Contreras; Cabeza de Vaca; Hernando de Salazar; service with Juan de Garay; campaign of Alonso Vera, Juan de Sanabria, Felipe de Cáceres, and Juan Ortiz de Zárate; expedition with Gonzalo de Abreu; Indian attack on Tucumán; Charrúa attack on Fort San Gabriel; service with Hernando de Lerma; Guaicurús; founding of Corrientes; Santa Fe, Buenos Aires, and Santo Domingo de la Nueva Rioja; aid to Concepción; rebellion of Buenos Aires; appointment of Lieutenant Governor of Asunción; battle with Charrúas; punishment of Pasanco Indians; rebellion of Caraibas; account of Sanabria family; city of Vera; settlement of Río Bermejo; death of Juan Ramírez de Velasco; Cabildo of Asunción; rediscovery of the Nuguará Indians; arrival of Fernando de Zárate; loss of armada of Alonso de Sotomayor; English arrival in Buenos Aires; arrival of Francisco Martínez de Leyva, Governor of Tucumán, with aid; help given expedition to Chile, stranded on Maldonado Island; expedition of Cristóbal de Saavedra; marriage of Juana de Zárate to Juan de Torres Vera; settlement of Valle de Tarija by Andrés Manso in the Chiriguano area and plains of Tamacosis; settlement of Timbues area; efforts of Portuguese to trade with Santa Fe; Portuguese slave trade; pension recommended for Hernandarias.
Printed: BG II, Doc. lxxxiii, 35-44.
Testimony by Felipe Franco, Pedro Isbrán, Alonso Cantero, Francisco de González de Santa Cruz, and Gasco Venegas.
Trade with Brazil; introduction of Negroes; poor results from Ordinances of Alfaro; praise of Manuel de Frías. Signed: Pedro Sánchez Valderrama, Martín de Insbralde, Pedro de Obelo, Juan de Olavarrieta, Juan de Ramoa (Ranua?), Juan de Lobatón, Gabriel de Vera y Aragón, Lucas de Valvuena y Ocampo, Pedro de los Ríos, Alonso Ruiz de Rojas, and Francisco García de Villamayor.
Portage of Paraguayan tea; relapse of Pitu Indians to old customs as result of Ordinances of Alfaro; expedition of Hernandarias; difficulty with Indians of the Itá reductions; cooperation of los Altos, Tobatí, and Yaguarón reductions; inspection by Gerónimo de Luján; Jesuit despondency over Guaicurú reductions; use of name Alonso Cabrera by Guaicurús; Padre Vicente; Pedro Romero; Padre Lorenzana's reduction on the Paraná; poverty of Asunción.
Printed: GFA Doc. xxvi, 463-465.
Trade with Brazil and Angola; inspection by Alfaro.
Printed: LBA I, 292-293.
Signed: Francisco de Trejo, Fray Miguel Delgado, Fray Sebastián Lozano, Fray Diego de Zárate, Francisco Gómez.
Petition for permission to continue trade with Brazil. Signed: Francisco de Trejo, Miguel Delgado, Sebastián Lozano, Diego de Zárate, and Francisco Gómez (Santo Oficio); Dominicans, Franciscans, Mercederians, and Jesuits. Indorsement by Cristóbal Remón, Juan de Vergara, Francisco Pérez de Burgos.
Printed: LBA I, 350-351.
Poverty of descendents of conquistadores; shortage of husbands for their daughters; difficulty of complying with ordinances of Alfaro; voyage of Manuel de Frías; need for more colonists.
Printed: GFA Doc. xxvii, 465-466, text only.
Hardships resulting from ordinances of Alfaro; request for priests; Diego Marín Negrón; Benito Gómez, Estevan Ordóñez de la Torre, Cristóbal Remón; Francisco de Trejo; Miguel Delgado; Sebastián Lozano; Diego de Zárate; Francisco Gómez. Signed: Manuel de Frías, Vittor Cascó de Mendoza, Pedro Gutiérrez, Bernardo de León, Pedro Rodríguez de Cabrera, Francisco de Manzanares, and Juan Ordóñez de la Torre.
Printed: LBA I, 345-349.
Plague of 1605-1606; poverty of province.
Printed: LBA I, 344-345, text only.
Alonso Maldonado de Torres; province of Chachapoyas; alcabala.
Mission of Manuel de Frías.
Work of Jesuits; route along Río Piquiri; interference by a Portuguese, Sebastián Prieto.
Signed: Juan de Mendiola, Lope de Larios, Cosme Rodríguez de Torales, Juan Alvear de Zúñiga, Juan Bautista Troche, Bartolomé de Villalva, and Antonio Juan Cabral.
Founding of numerous cities in La Plata region; conquests by Nufrio de Chaves and Gonzalo de Mendoza; punishment of Andrés Manso; services of Juan de Garay; colonizing expedition of Ruy Díaz de Guzmán; command of ships by Juan de Torres Navarrete; discovery of Río Bermejo; settlement by Alonso de Vera y Aragón. Testimony by Diego Bañuelos.
Permission to trade with Brazil and Spain directly; Simón de Valdés, Tomás Terrufino, Duarte Navarro.
Printed: LBA II, 85-86.
Signed: Pero (sic) Sánchez Valderrama, Bernaldino de Espíndola, Francisco Suárez de Figueroa, Martín de Orúe y Zaguirre [Eyzaguirre?], Juan de Montenegro, Juan de Espinosa, Baltasar de Medina, Juan Caballero de Bazán, and Blas Simón.
With petition for permission to suppresr Indians through war.
Reduction and conversion of Indians; teachings by religious; activities of Franciscans; separation of bishoprics.
Practical aspects of division; order of the Marqués de Montesclaros; ordinances of Francisco de Toledo; difficulties of inspection; Hernandarias and Marín Negrón; practice of leaving Paraguay to a Lieutenant Governor; need for governor to remain in Buenos Aires; disposition of Santa Fe, Córdoba, Vera, Corrientes (Indian Taragui), Asunción, Guairá, Jerez, Concepción de Buena Esperanza on Río Bermejo (called Hypiti by the Indians); customs of Matará; property of Isabel de Salazar; Senocote and Lules Indians affiliated with Tucumán province and Esteco; wars with Indians from Chile.
Printed: GFA Doc. xxx, 472-475.
Issuance of Ordinances; description of colonial regime and colonial life; Alonso Maldonado de Torres; visit to Buenos Aires; Santa Fe, Corrientes, Asunción, Río
Bermejo; difficulty of visiting Guairá; diligence of Hernandarias; visit to Spanish towns in Tucumán; meeting with Governor Luis de Quiñones in Córdoba; Junta called at Santiago del Estero; Alonso de Rivera of Chile; custodio of San Francisco; provinces of Jesuits; Juntas called in Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, and Asunción; advice given by Hernandarias; taxation and personal service of Indians; example set in Panamá; problem of the reductions; opposition of Tucumán; attention given to Chicha, Lipe, and Atacama Indians; strong juntas recommended; comparison with Inspection of Francisco de Toledo; poor accounting systems; regulations for trading; policy of Luis de Velasco, Conde de Monterrey, and Marqués de Montesclaros; organization of a
Printed: GFA Doc. xxxi, 480-490.
Contract with Juan Ortiz de Zárate; settlement of towns by Juan de Garay. Signed: Felipe Lorenzo de Cabrera, Tomás Terrufino, Francisco Micho, Juan Yacome Terrufino, Francisco Álvarez Pastang, Pedro de Icarra, Diego Navarro, and Domingo Griycela.
Signed: Marciel de Lorenzana, Diego González Holguín, and Francisco de San Martín.
Signed: Pedro Fontana de Zárate, Felipe Franco, Pedro González de Santa Cruz, Mateo de Espinosa, Pedro Isbrán, and Alonso Cantero.
Arias de Saavedra, Rector Marciel de Lorenzana, Diego González Holguín (comisario del Santo oficio), Francisco de San Martín, S. J. Signed: Pedro Sánchez Valderrama, Bernardino de Espíndola, Francisco Suárez de Figueroa, Alonso Miguel de Guzmán, Martín de Orúe y Zaguirre [Eyzaguirre?], Juan de Montenegro, Martín Sáchez de Arcamendia, Juan de Espinosa, Blas Simón, Juan Caballero de Bazán, and Baltasar de Medina. Notarized by Francisco de Vega.
Necessity of preparing resistance. Signed: Pedro Fontana de Zárate, Felipe Franco, Francisco Resquín, Pedro González de Santa Cruz, Alonso Cantero, Marciel de Lorenzana, Diego González Holguín, Francisco de Peralta, Alonso Velázquez, Alonso de Auñón, Juan Martínez, and Gaspar González.
Steps taken to defend the city from warring Indians.
Poor results of Ordinances of Alfaro; relations of Jesuits with Guaicurús; opinion of Jesuits concerning need and method of punishing Indians; massacre at Jujuy by Payaguás; separation of the government.
Signed: Bernardino de Espínola, Francisco Suárez de Figueroa, Alonso Riquelme de Guzmán, Martín de Orúe de Zaguirre [Eyzaguirre?], Hernando de Mendoza, Martín Sánchez de Arcamendia, Blas Simón, Juan Caballero de Bazán, and Baltasar de Medina. Notarized by Francisco de Vega.
Service of Indians; observations concerning Ordinances of Alfaro; the parish of San Blas; testimony by Fray Luis de Bolaños, Fray Alonso de Auñón, Fray Francisco de González de Santa Cruz, Fray Luis Gómez, Pedro Isbrán, Fray Vicente González, Fray Juan Martínez, Felipe Franco, and Juan Esteves Galindo; government of Hernandarias; warlike attitude of Guaicurú, Guayguruti, and Payaguá Indians. Poverty of church in Asunción.
State of abandonment of Guairá and tendency of its people to submit to Portuguese control; jurisdiction of independent government of Paraguay; use of Yerba mate; need for priests.
Printed: LBA I, 381-383.
Movement of Indians to los Charcas; need for protection against Chiriguanos. Signed: Pedro de Ledesma.
Explanation of plans for settlement; protection against Chiriguanos and plans for pacification of other tribes; political organization of colony.
Extract of Cedula sent to the Marqués de Montesclaros in 1608 and Pedro Espínola de Luan, providing for establishment of towns.
Reports of Alfaro, Arias de Saavedra, and Marín Negrón.
Printed: LBA I, 380; GFA Doc. xl, 504.
Difficulties caused by ordinances of Alfaro.
Printed: LBA I, 371-373.
Need for open ports on Atlantic; difficulty of travel from Buenos Aires to Córdoba; need for tools; difficulties in sale of wine. Signed: Tomás de Nájera; Juan de Torres Pinedo; Juan Ruiz de Atienza; Juan de Arce; Juan de Espinosa; Sebastián de Aguilera; Antonio Tomás de Sánchez; Juan Sánchez; Pedro Ruiz.
Printed: LBA I, 282-286.
Poverty of colonies of Río de la Plata; difficulty of trade via Peru; need for trade direct with Brazil, Spain, and Angola; need for negro labor.
Printed: LBA III, 68-77.
Inspection by Francisco de Alfaro; recommendation for a separate governor for Asunción, Guairá, Jérez, Espíritu Santo, and Corrientes.
Printed: LBA I, 380-381.
Salary and prerogatives of new office.
Includes copy of Real cédula issued at Ampudia, January 29, 1606, concerning trade regulations, especially with Brasil.
Signed: Pedro de Ledesma.
Complaint against settlement of missions by Mercedarians in Santa Fe and personal use of Indians by Dominicans and Jesuits contrary to Ordinances of Alfaro; request for a cédula to remedy situation.
Printed: BG II, Doc. lxxxiv, 45.
Mission of Fray Miguel de San Diego to Spain to request six or seven religious for Río de La Plata; creation of doctrinas by Jesuits, Franciscans, and Dominicans.
Printed: BG II, Doc. lxxxiv, 45-46.
Reports from Guairá; attack on Jérez; Portuguese contact with Peru.
Printed: BG II, Doc. lxxxiv, 46-47.
Briefs of cédulas concerning care for orphan daughters of conquistadores; conversion of Indians; encouragement of agriculture; work of Jesuits; the Santa Hermandad of the Villa de Camaña; appointment of civil officials.
Printed: LBA I, 378-379; BG II, Doc. lxxxiv, 47-48.
Opposition of Hernandarias; trade with Brazil and Angola; Francisco de Alfaro.
Printed: LBA II, 87-88.
Expedition of Pedro de Aleagui Herrada into land of the Chiriguanos and efforts to convert them; Marqués de Montesclaros; Corregimiento de La Recata; monastery of San Agustín; founding of San Juan del Oro.
Printed: MA III, 197-199.
Summary of antecedents; opinion of Viceroy of Peru; list of candidates and merits of each for office of governor; reference to Guaicurús, Payaguás, and isolation of Guairá; administration Marín Negrón; Arias de Saavedra; Diego de Góngora; Bartolomé de Anaya Villanueva; Alonso Ladrón de Guevara; Gregorio Rico; Francisco de Prado; Pedro Cortés de Monrroy.
Printed: LBA II, 95-98.
Contract with Antonio Fernández for transport of slaves.
Printed: LBA II, 88-89.
Jurisdiction of Santa Cruz de Sierra. Signed: José de Cáceres y Ulloa.
Conditions in provinces; need for trade directly with Brazil and Europe; requests of Diego Marín, Arias de Saavedra, Baltasar Navarro, and Luis de Bolaños; return of Franciscans and Jesuits who know the Indian Languages; protection of Concepción, Vera, Asunción, Guairá; need for priest in Concepción; war on cannibal Indians.
Printed: LBA II, 99-116.
Preparations for expedition and legal complications; appointment of Juan de Arce de Alvendín as corregidor of Tomina; report of Pedro de Escalante; trading activities of Miguel de Aguirre; arrival of Juan de Olmedo de Valdés (also Llanos de Valdés); Indian agriculture and trade goods.
Printed: MA III, 213-219.
Indians assaults in year 1613; dangers to Asunción and Concepción; Cacique Iquesnarón; Ordinances of Alfaro; Jesuits; Manuel de Frías.
Contract with Marqués de Montesclaros; finding of an ancient cross in a cave; mining potential.
Printed: MA III, 220-223.
War with Chiriguanos; service of Ruy Díaz de Guzmán; encomiendas of Yuracaráe Indians.
Death of Rosa de Santa María beata de la orden de Santo Domingo; daughter of Gaspar Flores; reference to miracles concerning her.
Separation of district of San Francisco de Alfaro from jurisdiction of Santa Cruz; settlement in cordillera of the Chiriguanos; naming of San Bartolomé de los Tomococis; government of Marqués de Cañete.
Settlement of Nueva Vega de Granada; discovery of mines near Tarija.
Expedition through province of Tapacuras; remnants of Inca empire; search for provinces of Pitarani, Canatucu, Guaypiú, Singaropáy, Imamo; wealth of Mojo cities; customs of Mojo Indians.
War with Chiriguanos; trade between provinces.
Arrangements of Marqués de Montesclaros for pacification of Chiriguanos; Pedro de Escalante; founding of colony Jesús de Montesclaros and two forts; agriculture and ranching in the province.
Government of Hernandarias de Saavedra; division of the province; instructions for the governor; was with Guaicurús and Payaguás; Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, San Juan de Vera de Los Siete Corrientes, Concepción del Río Bermejo, Asunción, Ciudad Real de Guairá, Villarrica del Espíritu Santo, and Santiago de Jerez; Pedro de Ledesma.
Administration of Juan Arce de Alvendín; signed: Diego de Portugal, Juan de Loaisa y Calderón, Diego de Muñoz de Cuéllar, Juan (Alonso?) Pérez de Salazar, and Sebastián Zambrano de Villalobos. Includes indorsement by Viceroy Borja on guns sent to aid of Guzmán, Los Reyes, November 1, 1618.
Settlement by Pedro de Escalante. Signed: Diego de Portugal, Juan de Loaisa y Calderón, Diego Muñoz de Cuéllar, Alonso (Juan?) de Salazar, and Sebastián Zambrano de Villalobos. Includes approval of aid Guzmán by Viceroy Francisco de Borja, Los Reyes, December 1, 1618.
Punishment of rebel Chiriguanos and Chanés; distribution of Indians among provinces; their legal status.
Written in Portuguese.
Administration of Juan Arce de Alvendín and settlement of Pedro de Escalante. Signed: Diego de Portugal, Juan de Loaisa Calderón, Diego Muñoz de Cuéllar, Alonso Pérez de Salazar, and Sebastián Zambrano de Villalobos.
Covers years 1615-1618.
Efforts to regulate price of wine.
Policy of Manuel de Frías.
Printed: LBA II, 136-137.
Printed: LBA II, 138-139.
Permit for two ships a year for 5 years to Seville; regulations of Marqués de Montesclaros; regulations for trade; establishment of customs at Córdoba; includes the cédula, Madrid, September 8, 1618, providing for the trade of two ships per year for 3 years with Seville.
Notarized by Nicolás de Guevara.
Report of Corregidor of Tomina.
Petition for trade directly with Brazil and Spain. Administration of Arias de Saavedra.
Printed: LBA II, 65-77.
Trade in cattle, grain, leather, and slaves; Arias de Saavedra.
Printed: LBA II, 90-94.
Printed: LBA II, 84.
Marqués de Montesclaros; Antonio Fernández de Lebas; transport of negroes from Angola; trade with Santa Catalina and Vera Cruz.
Printed: LBA II, 81-83.
Printed: LBA II, 78-80.
Printed: LBA II, 85.
Advantages of intercolonial trade reviewed; need for slaves; Hernandarias.
Printed: LBA II, 56-64.
Naming of the province of Nueva Valencia; founding of San Bartolomé Esquilache; arrival of Nuño de la Cueva; aid to city of San Francisco; province of Tomococis; Pitarayme.
Fragment of letter to the King.
Order of Sebastián Zambrano de Villalobos; Audiencia request for investigation.
Appointment of Sebastián Zambrano de Villalobos to procede against the culprits. Incomplete (?).
Reference to Mocapini; use of interpreter.
Death of Martín de Almendras. Rescue of Chanés Indians.
Fort of Magdalena.
Administration of Ruy Díaz de Guzmán.
Settlements by Ruy Díaz de Guzmán and Pedro de Escalante.
Indian emigration to Brazil; Portuguese advance into Paraguay; colony of Pedro de Escalante in Valle Grande; drougth conditions.
Policy of Marqués de Montesclaros; commission to Audiencia of los Charcas; progress of Tarija; service of Ruy Díaz de Guzmán; conquest of province of Toxocoses by Gonzalo de Solís Holguín.
Assistence to expeditions from public treasury.
Treatment of Indians by Ruy Díaz de Guzmán.
Signed: Pedro de Ledesma.
Life of the Indians in encomiendas and mistreatment.
Reference to Príncipe de Esquilache.
Request of Francisco de Aquino; arms used by Indians; visit of Francisco de Alfaro and Diego Marín Negrón; Indian ravages.
Signed: Pedro Fontana de Zárate, Pedro González de Santa Cruz, Felipe Franco, and Pedro de Sierra y Reón.
Conditions of Holguín's settlement of new provinces of Paytití and Nuevo Reyno de Valencia; defense against Chiriguanos; discovery of town of San Francisco de Alfaro; administration of Nuño de la Cueva; separation of settlements of Ruy Díaz de Guzmán and Pedro de Escalante from province of Santa Cruz; naming of San Bartolomé de Esquilache; request for appointment of adelantado; establishment of encomiendas for Indians; privileges for soldiers.
Depopulation of towns of San Francisco de Alfaro and Los Chiquitos.
Government of Francisco de Alfaro in Santa Cruz de la Sierra. Copy by Juan Esquivel Triana.
Ordinances of Alfaro; suit against Antonio González. Signed: Diego de Portugal, Juan de Loaisa y Calderón, Diego Muñoz de Cuéllar, and Juan Pérez de Salazar.
Reception in Rio de Janeiro, Santos, and Buenos Aires; attitude of Gabriel Sánchez de Ojeda, Diego de Vega, and Juan de Vergara; Governor Martín of Rio de Janeiro; accusation of Mateo de Grado; recommendation for direct trade between Buenos Aires and Seville; irregularities of Brazilian trade.
Printed: LBA II, 346-354.
Corrupt government in Buenos Aires; noted by the Consejo: Juan Rodríguez, Rodrigo de Agüero, Alonso Maldonado, Francisco Manso and Pedro Rivera; indorsement by Juan Velázquez.
Printed: LBA II, 355-358.
Grain trade with Brazil; hemp, ginger, flax, almonds; apiculture; Portuguese contraband trade; Matías Delgado Flores; noted by Consejo; Juan Rodríguez, Rodrigo de Agüero, Alonso Maldonado, Francisco Manso, Pedro Rivera; copy by Juan Velázquez.
Printed: LBA II, 359-361 (date given as May 25).
Testimony on founding of city of Todos Santos de la Nueva Rioja, 1591; testimony in favor of Gómez de Pedraza offered by Pedro Díaz, Francisco Robledo, and Antonio de Cueva.
Need for seeds from the Casa de Contratación; Alonso Pérez de Salazar; orders to prevent contraband trade with Brazil.
Recommendation by the Prince of Esquilache. Signed: Pedro de Ledesma.
Need for ecclesiastical jail; petition of Benito de Monserrate for alms for convent; other details of clerical affairs.
Francisco de Aquino; belligerance of Guaicurús and Payaguás; settlement of Nuestra Señora de Buena Esperanza del Río Bermejo.
Printed: BG I, Doc. xvii, 188-189.
Territorial extension of province of Los Charcas and its jurisdiction. Taken from various royal decrees between 1599 and 1623.
Review of history of the Spanish conquest and settlement of Río de la Plata region (1515-1622) with emphasis on economic and sociological aspects; copiously documented from royal cedulas and contemporary works.
Excommunication of Frías.
Printed: LPE I, 434-439.
Complaint against insults to president and faculty of Jesuit college; Juan de Loaisa y Calderón, Diego Muñoz de Cuéllar, Jorge Manrrique de Lara, Esteban de Alsibia, Juan de Soria, Marcial de Lorenzana; charges of heresy; Francisco del Saz Carrasco, Álvaro Pinto, Juan de Espinosa, Notary Alonso Fernández Michel. Jacome de Arriola, Miguel Álvarez Dávila, Juan Esteves Galindo, Juan Raldón, Manuel de Frías, Agustín de Torres.
Signed: Pedro de Ledesma.
Printed: LPE I, 416.
Testimony of Rivadeneira, Mateo Chamorro, Manuel de Rivera, Gerónimo de la Rosa, Pedro Correa Mesquita and Agustín de Torres concerning church attendance of Frías although excommunicated; Juan Roldán; Bishop Tomás de Torres; Miguel Álvarez de Ávila.
Printed: LPE I, 417-421.
Compliance with Council of Trent.
Ignorance of provincial priests; failure to provide encomiendas as ordered by real cédula; method of appointing ecclesiastics.
Printed: LPE I, 431-433.
Relations with Manuel de Frías; defense against charges of Jesuits; trip to defend himself at La Plata; transfer to bishopric of Tucumán; Nicolás Durán.
Printed: LPE I, 422-427.
Products from mines and conditions of Indians.
Appointment of Nicolás de Mendoza to settle and govern the mining town.
News of armada in Brazil; complaint against Diego Martínez de Prado.
Printed: PFC 177-179.
Signed: Francisco de Escobar, García Rivero, Juan Jiménez, Salvador Hernández, Juan Rodríguez, and Juan Román.
Conditions in Brazil (Santos and Rio de Janeiro); character of Indians.
Services of Céspedes Jeria; precarious state of bishopric after division. Signed: Pedro Fontana de Zárate, Pedro González de Santa Cruz, Pedro de Sierra León, and Baltazar Mateo de Espinosa.
Governor needed in Jesuit missions; San Pablo.
Province of Paraguay; poverty of Río Bermejo; hostility of Indian tribes; Asunción; attack on Rodrigo Ponce de León in Santa Fe; fierceness of Indians in Magallan Straits; threat of Dutch; recommendation that warring Indians be branded on face; death of three Jesuits at San Juan de Vera de las Corrientes; need for a bishop at Guairá; Bishop Pedro de Carranza; Juan de Garay.
Printed: PFC 186-189.
Founding of colegio de Jesús in Tarija; need for converting Chichas and Chiriguanos; origin of the latter tribe; war of Francisco de Toledo against them; failure of Jesuits in Chaco; assistance of Juan José Campero de Herrera.
Bishopric of the Chaco; description of bishopric of province of Cuyo; feasibility of dividing province of Cuyo from Chile by adding parts of Tucumán to be conquered by Gerónimo de Cabrera; activities of Lope de Ulloa y Lemol, Alonso Pérez de Salazar, and Martín de Ledesma.
Portuguese invasion; projected settlements.
Jurisdiction of Uruguay; attack on missions of Guairá.
Signed: Francisco Benítez, Lorenzo del Villar y Álvarez, Diego de Vargas, Esteban Martín, Francisco Vázquez, Gonzalo Portillo y Frías, Lucas de Villalba, Tomás Martín de Yantes, and Francisco de Fernández.
Methods of Portuguese slave hunters; charges of complicity against Luis de Céspedes Jeria; Dutch activity in Brazil; arguments for reducciones in Paraguay.
Incursions into Guaraní missions.
Unfavorable action by Céspedes Jeria; transmittal of suit to Crown; protection needed against Guaicurú Indians; arming of Guaranis; battles with Portuguese; work of P. Antonio Ruiz.
Administration of Francisco de Sosa; Francisco García Collantes; Luis de Loma Portocarrero; services of Bartolomé Astete de Ulloa, Gabriel Gómez de Sanabria, and Gerónimo de Gonyo; preparation for voyage of treasure fleet. Signed: José de Cáceres y Ulloa.
Shipment of gold bullion.
Portuguese invasion from San Pablo; testimony of Lorenzo de Saris and Sebastián de Vega.
Mission of Carlos de Ibarra; appointment of Luis de Loma Portocarrero as auditor.
Examination of Portocarrero by doctors Bernardo Ortiz do [sic] Valle, Diego Pérez del Cuende, Francisco Tristán de Ucedo, Baltasar Meléndez de Valdés, Antonio Ortiz de Inestrosa, Cipriano Gallego, Juan de Molina, and Juan de la Lanza for post of auditor of treasure fleet; Gaspar del Monte; Francisco Plaza; Dr. Blas de la Iguera.
Administration of Diego Marín Negrón, Hernandarias de Saavedra, and Diego de Góngora; charges of fraud; decline of trade by water routes.
Portuguese encroachments; use of Tupí Indians; nature of Portuguese settlements near San Pablo; report of the campaign; witnesses from Caazapá guazú; testimony of Francisco de Espínola, Cristóbal de Valbuena y Ocampo, Sebastián de León, Rodrigo de Ibarrola, Bartolomé Velázquez Ocampo, Rodrigo de Osuna, Juan de Valle, Pedro Franco de Obelar, Juan Vallejos Osorio, Diego de Almisón, Francisco de Esquivel, and Bernardino Avalos y Mendoza.
Search for Portuguese from San Pablo; discovery at Caazapá guazú; protection given Padre Diego de Álvaro of Paraná Jesuit missions; his death at hands of Portuguese; manufacture of arms.
Printed: BG I, Doc. xviii, 189-190.
Absence of precious metals; small encomiendas.
Portuguese invasions; their destruction; cruelty to Spain and Indians; destruction of property of Antonio Raposo Tavares; damage in Itapúa and Uruguay; advances to Paraguay, Tucumán, Revi, Itatín, Potosí, and Santa Cruz; protest to Santo oficio in Lisbon, Tribunal in Rio de Janeiro, and Governor of Bahía; treatment of Indians in Lisbon, Madeira, and cape Verde; assignment of Fray Antonio de San Esteban, Fray Francisco Valladares, Juan de Campo y Medina (ex-cura of Guairá), Francisco Jorge, and Salvador de Linia; evacuation from Brazil of Spanish or Portuguese citizens of Paraguay; deportation of Sebastián de Peralta, Diego Guillermo, Diego de Orrego, Fetono Pórcel, Francisco Sánchez, Fernando Melgarejo, Gabriel Brilé, Amador González, and Pedro Domínguez; orders confining Portuguese to Brazilian limits. Signed: Fernando Ruiz de Contreras. Copy made by Pedro Rodríguez de Villafañes, from documents from Asunción, via San Pablo; Notarized by Alonso Ágreda de Vergara (November 20, 1641).
Abandonment of 3 cities in Paraguay; advantages of keeping the Provinces unified; punishment of Indians; campaign of Pedro Dávila Enríquez; collection of import taxes at Córdoba; escape of Negro slaves; illicit trade.
Services of the early conquerors and poverty of their sons; services of clergy; poverty of land.
Protection against Portuguese.
Refutation of warnings against arming Indians.
See also No. 655 infra.
Another copy of No. 654 supra.
Complaint about the media anata; encomiendas requested for Spaniards. Signed: Martín de Orúe de Zárate, Fray Juan Barbosa, Fr. Esteban Martínez, Fr. Luis de Silva, and Fr. Juan de Godoy.
Petition to Viceroy Pedro de Toledo y Leiva, Marqués de Mancera; Tupí alliance with Portuguese.
Portuguese threat to Paraguay.
List of arms sent.
Report of Juan Pastor, S. J. on Portuguese attacks on missions of Paraná and Uraguay rivers; enslavement of Indians; danger to Paraguay; order to viceroy and Charcas for aid; Gerónimo de Camargo to relieve mission Indian losses. Signed: Gabriel de Ocaña y Alorán. Also endorsement by Juan Antonio Valle de Arroyo in Buenos Aires for Tomás de Ureña, S. J.; witnessed by Gerónimo Pedro Sasornijo, Pedro Rodríguez, Francisco Urano.
Printed: TAM N[UNK] 13, 34-35; English translation in AEZ I, 332.
Tribute of eight reales to be paid by each Indian; Andrés de Videla, Sebastián gunas, Alarcón, Bartolomé Astete de Ulloa, Baltasar Becerra, Fernando Bravo de Lagunas, Antonio de Calatayud, Juan de Casada, Pedro de Meneses, Juan de Rojas, Pedro de Salas; danger to Jesuit Missions of Uruguay, Tapé, Paraná, and Itatines from Portuguese; includes the
Printed: TAM No 14, 35-37; English translation in AEZ I, 332-334.
Boundaries between bishoprics of Paraguay and La Plata. Witnesses: Luis Rodríguez Luján, Diego Rosendo de Trigueros; Pedro Montero de Espinosa, Juan Navarro de la Cueva, notario.
Administration of Gregorio de Inestrosa; Pedro de Oviedo, and Diego de Escobar; appointment of Sebastián de León y Zárate. Signed: Gabriel de Peralta, Fernando Sánchez del Valle, Diego Jovellanos, and Mateo de Espinosa.
Complaint of independent attitude of Jesuits.
Methods of communication; work of Hernandarias de Saavedra.
Conditions in Río de La Plata; social divisions, economic situation, agricultural progress, and trade on land and river; Jacinto de Láriz, Cristóbal de Mancha Velasco, Francisco de Nestares Marín, Pedro Esteban Dávila, Mendo de la Cueva y Benavides, Gerónimo Luis de Cabrera, Governors of Santa Fe and Corrientes, the Audiencia of Chuquisaca, Juan Gallinato and Conde de Salvatierra.
Fragment. Description of Provinces, missions, and distribution of clerics.
Difficulties of trip from La Plata to Asunción; recommendation that Bishop Bernardino Cárdenas be forbidden to return; merits of Dr. Adrián Cornejo.
Appointment of Bernardino de Cárdenas; quarrel between Cornejo and Juan Velázquez de Valverde; appointment of Pedro de la Cabeza and Francisco de Muñoz Holguín; work of Andrés Garavito de León. Signed: Gabriel de Peralta, Diego Ponce de León, and Juan Viscaino Agüero.
Capture of cities by Portuguese; raids of Guaicurús and Calchaquís.
Reductions of San Blas de Itá, San José de Caazapá, San Francisco de Yutí; condition of Indians.
Perfidy and ravages of Guaicurús; campaign of Fernando Zorilla del Valle; testimony of Cristóbal de Valbuena y Ocampo and Juan Esteban de Zárate on need for fort.
Gabriel de Peralta, Adrián Cornejo, Bernardino de Cárdenas, Luis de Acevedo y Ure, Diego Ponce de León, Francisco Chaparro, Juan Vizcaino de Agüero, Francisco Cavallero Bazán.
Harrying of Spanish settlements by Guaicurús.
Invasions of Guaicurús and Payaguás; interference with trade of Villa del Espíritu Santo.
State of missions among the Itatines and on the Paraná River; mistreatment of Indians.
Administration of Alonso Sarmiento de Figueroa; fugitives from Brazil.
Campaign of Juan Velázquez de Valverde; Indians' dislike of Spanish; assistance by Juan Núñez Vaca; punishment of Indians; government of Cristóbal de Garay. Signed: Fernando Zorrilla Ceballos, Pedro de Gamarra y Mendoza, Fernando Ávalos y Mendoza, Rodrigo de Rojas y Aranda, Cristóbal de Valbuena y Ocampo, Gabriel de Cuéllar y Mosquera, Estéban de Figueroa, Pedro de Valdivia y Brisuela, and Juan Cabrea.
Inspection by Figueroa; treatment of Indians.
Complaint against Cornejo; founding of missions of Tapúa, Guiray, and Igay; Incursions of Guaicurús and Payaguás; revolt of Indians at Arecayá. Signed: Fernando Zorrilla Zeballos, Francisco Fernandes de Cabrera, Rodrigo de Rojas Aranda, Pedro Ramírez de Guzmán, Cristóbal de Valbuena y Ocampo, Gabriel de Cuéllar y Mosquera, Esteban de Figueroa, Pedro de Valdivia y Brizuela, Bernardino Osorio, Juan Cabrera, Antonio Mendoza, Antonio González Freire, and Gabriel Rodríguez de Guzmán.
Quarrel with Gabriel de Peralta; illegitimate possession of bishopric.
Relations with Francisco Díaz and Gabriel de Peralta.
Ecclesiastical affairs; accusations against Fray Bernardino de Cárdenas; treatment of Indians.
List of reductions in province.
Concerning work of Adrián Cornejo and Bernardino de Cárdenas.
Relations with Juan Navarro de la Cueva, Pedro de Mendoza, Francisco Sánchez de Vera, Gobriel de Peralta, Andrés Garavito de León, and Juan Alonso de Ocón; abuse of power by Cornejo.
Danger from Portuguese; trade with Indians.
Erection of towns; improvement of river trade.
Letter of Juan Velázquez de Valverde; request to reunite Paraguay and Río de la Plata; Indian raids on towns; Portuguese raids on Villarrica and San Pablo; founding of Villeta; trade in hierba; Indian destruction of Río Bermejo town and Matará; river traffic via Santa Fe, and Corrientes along Paraná; poverty of governor and bishop. Signed: Juan del Solar; copy certified by José Falcón. Same as No. 700.
Printed: ALP, 133-135; AAM Anexo C, No. I, 171-174; English translation in AMP, Exibit C, No. I, 62-65; Spanish,
Same as No. 699.
Administration of Alonso Sarmiento de Figueroa; protection against Guaicurús and Payaguás; lack of arms; relations between the Guaicurús and Portuguese.
Treatment of Indians; relations with Gabriel de Peralta.
Demolition of Caaguazú and other acts of hostile Indians.
Charges against Alonso de Figueroa and Velázquez de Valverde; violations of Indian women; treatment of Indians in Arecayá; its depopulation; litigation by heirs of Juan Vizcaino de Agüero.
Protection against hostile Indians and Portuguese; testimony by Miguel Díaz, Melchor López Barba, Luis Jiménez, Francisco Ávalos de Mendoza, Floriano Bernal Mercado, Alonso Peña Yos (?) de Castro, Pedro de Candia, Antonio Márquez de Rivera, Miguel de Barrios, Antonio Cabañas de Ampuero, Tomás de Abrego.
Founding of presidios; difficulties with fort at Tapúa.
Reconstruction of Villarrica and other towns captured by Portuguese; ruin threatening churches in San Blas, Parroquia, and la Encarnación; aid from Buenos Aires and Corrientes. Signed: Francisco Fernández de Madrigal.
Printed: TAM No. 25, 96-98.
Protest against payment of tribute by Indians; conditions of Indians.
Commendation of Andino for poverty after his term of office.
Signed: Gabriel Bernardo de Quirós.
Gabriel de Valencia, Adrián Cornejo, Bernardino de Cárdenas, Juan Ocón, Gabriel de Peralta, Clemente Sánchez de Vera, Alonso Riquelme de Guzmán, Blas de Espínola, José Domínguez, and Juan Cavallero de Irarrazábal.
Incursions and illicit trade with English, French, and Dutch; high prices in Buenos Aires; relations with Charcas.
Especially concerns the Chaco region; tyranny of Pedro de Bohozquez.
Record of expedition; campaign of Juan de Amunátegui; battles with Indians; conquest of provinces of Río del Dorado and Zohaco; trouble with Vilela and Callagaye Indians.
Knowledge of a road to Peru; relations with Lenguas and Tamorlanes Indians; their location and religion; location of Tapití, Tapitilica, Guaicurú, Naparú, and Tapocodagani Indians; trouble with the Mbayás Indians; possibility of water routes; subjection of Guanás Indians; Gregorio de Hinostrosa, Reje Corvalán, Pedro Sánchez de Soria, Fernando de Ávalos y Mendoza, Notary Alonso Fernández Ruano.
Indian attack on Nuestra Señora de la Santa Fe, Atirá, Caaguazú, Ipané, and Guarambaré; ferocity of Indians; movement of towns to less dangerous sites; need for arms.
Audiencia de Buenos Aires; Juan Diez de Andino; hindrance of Indian wars.
Printed: BG Doc. xix, 191-192.
Incursion of Guaicurús; cowardice of Caballero de Bazán; inconvenience incurred in allowing retiring governors to remain in province; state of various religious orders; advantages of establishing a penal colony on west bank as defense against Indians.
Suit against Juan Arias de Saavedra by José Martínez de Salazar, for allowing Portuguese to reach Island of Maldonado; war on Indians; charges by José de León against the author; appointment of judges Diego Ibáñez de Faria, and Juan Arias de Saavedra; report to Bartolomé González Poveda; administration of Juan Diez de Andino; appointment of Lázaro Vallejo; influence of Jesuits in internal affairs; ponton bridge across Río Paraguay; defense by Dr. Bernardino Cervín; troubles between Bernardino de Cárdenas and Jesuits; appeal to Alonso de Saborran y Velasco; Sebastián de León y Zárate; Pedro Ibáñez; Padre Procurador Gregorio Cabral; character of Gabriel de Valencia; polemic against Cárdenas by Fray Pedro Nolasco (Mercedarian); jurisdiction of Juan Velázquez de Valverde along the Paraná; conquest of Santiago de Caaguazú and Nuestra Señora de Fe.
Printed: MA IV, 153-168.
Río Madera, Matogroso, San Ignacio de los Chiquitos, Marañón, La Bahía de Todos Santos. Island of Santa Catalina, Río de la Plata; mines of Brazil; Santa Cruz de la Sierra; Popayán.
Attacks on Ipané and Guarambaré; danger in La Plata and Tucumán; disposition of colonist; requirements for campaign.
Act of Cabildo with appointment and investment of war powers in Diez de Andino; account of Mameluke invasion and depredations; need to raise a military force to resist advance; role of the Tupí, Guaicurús and Mbayás Indians; attacks on San Pedro de Terecañé, San Francisco de Ibirá Parigá, Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria, and Villarrica; report of Inocencio (?) de Casase; advance on Ipané and Guarambaré; communication with Perú and Tucumán; Lic. Juan de Zárate; signed: Rodrigo de Rojas Aranda, Alonso Fernández Montiel, Francisco Martínez del Monte, Antonio González Freire, witnesses Pedro Villasante and Juan de Herrera y Abreu.
Printed: AEZ I, 348-350 (English).
Absence of Reje Corvalán; experiences of Diez de Andino in Catalonia and Portugal; danger from Guaicurús and Mbayás; statements by Juan Cabrera de Ovalle, Antonio Cañete, Alonso Fernández Montiel, Pedro de Gamarra y Mendoza, Antonio González Frei[re], Agustín Corvalán y Castilla, Francisco Martínez del Monte, Juan Ortiz de Zárate, Juan de la Peña (of San Miguel de Tapúa Guazú), Juan Patiño de Haro, Francisco de Rojas Aranda, Rodrigo de Rojas Aranda, Gabriel Riquelme de Guzmán, Lázaro de Vallejo Villasante, Pedro Vallejo Villasante, and Diego Yegros; request for aid from Tucumán and Río de La Plata; ships at Buenos Aires; protection of Uruguay and Paraná towns against the Tupís and Mamelukes; acceptance of command by Diez de Andino. Signed: Manuel Flores; witnesses: Juan de Herrera y Abreu, Juan Rodríguez de Villasboa.
Printed: AEZ I, 350-351 (English).
Promulgation certified by Francisco Martínez del Monte, signed also Juan de Brizuela, read by Francisco López, witnessed by Juan de Herrera Abreu, and Francisco Gómez de Sosa. Order for the Militia to assemble before Lázaro Vallejo Villasanti in Pirajú for expedition against Mamelukes and Tupís; absence of Reje Corvalán; command of Diez de Andino; signed; Rodrigo de Rojas Aranda, Alonso Fernández Montiel, Francisco Martínez del Monte, Juan Cabrera de Ovalle, Gabriel Riquelme de Guzmán, Antonio González Freire; witnesses: Juan de Herrera y Abreu and Lázaro García de la Jara.
Printed: AEZ I, 337-339 (English translation).
Absence of Reje Corvalán; order for militia to assemble with Vallejo Villasanti at Pirayú for expedition ordered by Diez de Andino against Mamelukes and Tupís; lack of arms and other war supplies; need for aid at Villarrica; memorials given to José de Rojas Aranda, Diego Delgado de Irala and Manuel Baez; order to Villasanti and Juan de Vargas Machuca. Signed: Rodrigo Rojas Aranda, Alonso Fernández Montiel, Francisco Martínez del Monte, Gabriel Riquelme de Guzmán, Antonio González Freire, Juan de Brizuela; witnesses: Juan Herrera y Abreu and Francisco Gómez de Sosa.
Printed: AEZ I, 339-340 (English translation).
Promulgation of the Bando of February 25, 1676, as ordered by Cabildo; decree for militia to come to Pirayú to join Diez de Andino's expedition to Villarrica; read by Santiago Indio ladino; witnesses: Lázaro García de la Jara, Juan de Silva Valladares, José Rafael Vallesteros. Signed also by Rodrigo de Rojas Aranda, Alonso Fernández Montiel, Juan Cabrera de Ovalle, Gabriel Riquelme de Guzmán, Antonio González Freire, and Juan de Brizuela; witnesses: José Rafael Vallesteros.
Muster of troops before Vallejo Villasanti for Diez de Andino's relief expedition to Villarrica; work of Gabriel Riquelme de Guzmán and Antonio González Freire in Pirayú; reinforcements from Atirá, Ipané, Guarambaré, Yaguarón, Itá; meeting at Yaquí; list of members and the arms they bought: Lázaro de Acosta, Sebastián de Acosta, Antonio de Alegre, Sebastián Álvarez, Sebastián Álvarez de Peralta, Blas de Aquino, Ignacio de Aquino, Pedro de Araujo, León de Arcamendia, Mashe (?) de Arce, Andrés Baez, Andrés Benítez, Francisco Benítez, Pedro Berdún, Manuel Bordón, Juan Bordón, hijo, Francisco Caballero, Juan Caballero Bazán, Cristóbal de Cáceres, Juan Cano, Mateo Casco, Pedro Coronel, Bartolomé Corral, Ciprián Delgado, Diego Delgado de Irala, Francisco Delgado de Irala, Roque Díaz, Lázaro Diez, Juan de Encinas y Mendoza, Diego Enes, Francisco de Espínola, Martín de Espínola, Lorenzo de Estigarribia, Bartolomé Fleitas, Lázaro de Gamarra, Melchor Gantos, Miguel García de Roa, Diego de Godoy, Francisco Gómez, Jacinto Gómez, Pedro Gómez de Lucena, Juan Gómez Mateo, Bartolomé González, Mateo González, Francisco Hernández, Juan Hernández, Juan de Herrera y Abreu, Martín de Hormigo, Antonio Jiménez, Francisco Jiménez, Gabriel Jiménez, Pedro Jiménez, Francisco de Ledesma Valderama, Hernando de Lequisam, Bernabé Lezcano, Juan Lezcano, Domingo Lobato, Pedro Luján, Lorenzo Maldonado, Manuel Maldonado, Diego Marcelio, Salvador Marcos, Pedro Marín, Leonardo Martínez, Gerónimo de Medina y Campo, Melchor Melgarejo, Blas de Mendoza, Melchor de Mendoza, Diego Mocan, José de Molina, Juan Morales, José Notario, Francisco de Ortellado, Pedro de Orue y Zárate, Isidro Palacios, Tomás Polo, Cristóbal Pato, Miguel Pavón, Bartolomé de Peralta, Lázaro Pérez, Pedro Pérez, Diego Portillo, Cristóbal Riquel, Pedro Riquel, Alonso de Rojas, Bartolomé de Rojas Aranda, Isidro de Rojas Aranda, Juan Rolón, Diego Román, Juan de Rosas, Domingo Ruiz, José Ruiz, Francisco Rui Díaz, Domingo Saldívar, Francisco Saldívar, Cristóbal Sánchez, Estevan Sánchez, Felipe Sánchez, Bernabé Sánchez Negrete, José Sánchez Negrete, Sánchez de Vera, Juan Sánchez de Vera, Manuel de Segovia, Marcos Señes Francisco de Silva, Enrique Silveros, Bernardino de Sosa, Manuel de Sosa, Bonifacio de Torres, Luis de Torres, Juan Francisco de Torres, Pedro de Torres Chaves, Pedro de Valdivia y Brizuela, Miguel del Valle, Juan Vanegas de Guzmán, Vicente Vanegas de Guzmán, Adrián de Vargas, Diego Vargas, Francisco de Viesma, Juan de Villasanti.
Order for promulgation of appointment of Diez de Andino to lead Paraguayan forces. Witnessed by Pedro Valdivia y Brizuela, and Juan de Herrera y Abreu.
Printed: AEZ I, 357 (English translation).
Appointment of officers: Francisco de Ledesma Valderrama, Juan de Encina y Mendoza, Francisco de Ávalos y Mendoza, Francisco Avendaño, Salvador Marcos, Pedro Valdivia y Brizuela, Ventura Marcos, Tomás de Aquino, Sebastián de Rivas Resquín, Juan Santa de Almada, Melchor de Paredes, Juan Mesa, Rodrigo de Mesa, Francisco Pérez, Lázaro de Gamarra y Mendoza, Juan de Godoy, Antonio Correa y Saa, Pedro Benítez, Fernando de Leguisan, Francisco Benítez, Lesmes de Oña Zapata, Roque de Vera y Aragón, Miguel del Valle, Eusebio de Burgos, Francisco de Agüero, Marcos de Burgos, Francisco Espínola y Cáceres, Juan de los Ríos, Andrés Baez.
Account of the Mameluke, Portuguese, and Tupí advance on Villarrica, Terecañé, Maracayu (town, or Indian tribe?); boats on the Río Amarbay.
Printed: AEZ I, 341-342 (English translation).
Relations with Diego Ibáñez de Faria and the Audiencia.
Notice of the expedition to aid Villarrica from Asunción; Portuguese removal of 4 towns; order exiling to Buenos Aires those who fail to join expedition against Portuguese; witnesses Francisco de Ledesma Valderrama and Sebastián de Aguileta.
Printed: AEZ I, 342.
Report of conditions on arrival.
Campaign of Felipe Reje Corvalán; capture of the towns of San Pedro de Terecañé, San Francisco de Ibirá, Pariyará, Candelaria; campaign of Ruy Díaz Melgarejo; Juan Méndez de Leiba, Francisco de Asturias, Nicolás de Pesoa, y Figueroa, Mateo González, Diego de Aguirre Meléndez, and Alonso de Villalba; reports of Francisco de Pedraza to Juan de Zárate; mission of Gaspar de Godoy and Juan Diez de Andino; battles with Guaycurús and Payaguás; work of Andrés de Robles; treatment of foreigners. Signed: Rodrigo de Rojas Aranda, Alonso Fernández Montiel, Francisco Martínez del Monje, Juan Cabrera de Ovalle, Gabriel Riquelme de Guzmán, Antonio González Freire, and Juan de Brizuela.
Administration of Felipe Reje Corvalán and Andrés de Robles; Portuguese capture of Villarrica, San Pedro de Terecañé, San Francisco de Ibirapariará, Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria, and San Andrés de Baracayú; campaign of Juan Diez de Andino. Signed: Rodrigo de Rojas Aranda, Alonso Fernández Montiel, Francisco de Martínez del Monje, Juan Cabrera de Ovalle, Gabriel Riquelme de Guzmán, Antonio González Freire, and Juan de Brizuela.
Report of Diez de Andino on his expedition in pursuit of Mamelukes and Tupís from San Pablo; inspections by Alonso Fernández Montiel, Gabriel Riquelme de Guzmán, and Antonio González Freire; march to estancia of Sebastián de Luces; Yaquí; estancia of Bogado; mission of Francisco de Avendaño to Tuty and Caazapá; Teyupóguazú; Monte Grande; Guarambaré; letter from Juan Mongelos Garcés; Empalado Boycha, San Pedro de Terécañé; report of Rafael (slave of Juan de Barcelona); Indians of maracayú; Manuel Cristaldo, Francisco Fernández de Mora; San Francisco de Ybirá-Parigá, San Andrés de Mbaracayú; Salvador Marcos, Miguel Pavón, Santos de Toledo, Francisco Fernández Gante, Fernando del Villar, Ruy Díaz Melgarejo, Bartolomé de Escobar, Anastasio Cristaldo, Juan de Leria, Sebastián de Vargas Machuca, San Benito de los Tois y Aterá; Hernando González; Francisco de Ledesma Valderrama; Francisco de Ávalos y Mendoza; Alonso de Villalba, Don Luis de Céspedes; Gabriel Delgado de Irala; Juan de Areco, Juan de Ojeda; escape of the Indian Ignacio from the Río Igatimí; Ava Siririca; canoes at Amambay; difficulty of the terrain; fight with the Portuguese; soldiers at Terecañé and Bira perianá, witnessed by Juan Mejía and Francisco de Ávalos y Mendoza.
Printed: AEZ I, 359-366. English translation.
Interrogation of Garcés; services of Catalina Garcés de Zarza; University of Alcalá and of Madrid; Puerto de Santa María Badajoz; cavalry of Pedro de Santa Cruz; death of José de Mongelos Garcés at Alcántara; pension of María de [UNK]; battle of San Miguel; Yelnes, Castilla of San Jorge in Lisbon; Portuguese armada of 1659 to Rio de Janeiro; search for emeralds in Espíritu Santo; San Pablo; marriage of Catalina Pinero de Arrocha and Domingo de Vinuesa; children Domingo Francisco Antonio, etc.; expedition of Francisco de Pedroso Gabriel, from Pamajba (Pernayba? Paranahyba? Parasyba?), Etuasu, Sorocobas, Mogi (San Vicente Caytes) via Cumpaitis, and Curupaybas (rebels against the Jesuits); the Río de Amambay, Río San Pablo, Pernambay Guazú; Villarrica (La Vieja); reports of Antonio de Godoy, Blas Lemes, Sebastián Suárez, Home de Lara, and Matías de Mendoza; use of Tupí Indian allies; new route via Caaguazú, Atirá, Ipané, and Guarambaré; Melchor de Rojas Aranda (in town of Itaguazú); use of Río Añamby; the strength of the Tapayas; Jerez; Río Paraná; Río Jepitanja; Falls of the Guairá; Yetuasu; town of Maracayu; Río Gatimí; Río Amambay; Puerto de Arambay; San Pedro de Terecañé; the Guaicurú Indians; Payaguás Indians; government of Alonso Sarmiento de Figueroa; destruction of Aguaramanbi; Portuguese at Ibiaparsara, Candelaria, Ibirapariará, Cunipaitis; escape of 2 Angola Negroes; troops furnished by Pernayba, Tetuasu, Serocaba, Sudiay, Mogi, Santos, San Sebastián and San Vicente; Guaratimiqueta Parayba; Ibapavati; Villa Nueva de Ibaba; Jarias (?); Isla de la Barranca; Parmagua; Río de San Francisco; intentions toward Buenos Aires; Villa de Paranagua; Valle de Macacu; Cabo Frío; Bahia; Michael de Abellán, Manuel de Acosta, Marsolde Acosta; Diego de Alvarado, Rector of the University of Alcalá; Juan de Anaya, Arronis (Navarra), Francisco Camargo, Luis Céspedes Jeria, Manuel Correa, Juan Correa de Saa, Salvador Correa de Saa, Rui Díaz Melgarejo, Gaspar de Godoy, Baltazar de Godoy, Luis de Haro, Francisco Isturis, Juan de Lima, Luis de la Lerma Abamucibay, Raymundo Mirel, Domingo de Mongelos, José de las Nieves, Duque de Osuma (Medina Celi), Julio Rospillosi, Doña Victoria de Saa y Acosta, Catalina de Velasco, Juan Esteban de Zárate, testimony of Sebastián de Vargas Machuca; signed: Francisco de Ávalos y Mendoza, Alonso Fernández de Montiel, Francisco Sánchez, and Juan Mejía.
Portuguese attack on Villarrica.
Administration of Andrés de Robles, Pedro de Baygorri, and Francisco de Sepúlveda; recommendations for defense of missions.
General poverty and lack of horses in Paraguay; expedition of Andino to drive Portuguese from Candelaria, Villarrica, Ipané, and Guarambaré; activities of Juan Mongelos, Garcés, Alonso de Villalba, and Juan de Lima; danger from Guaicurús and Mbayás.
Hostility of Tupí, and Guaicurús; data on places and distances in Brazil.
Retreat of the Guaicurús; loss of towns to the Portuguese of San Pablo; campaign of Juan Diez de Andino; Tupí allies of the Portuguese; policy of Diego de Ibáñez de Faria; forts opposite Asunción; transfer of Villarrica del Espíritu Santo; Juan Arias de Saavedra and Rodrigo de Rojas Aranda, Alonso Fernández Montiel.
Work of Faustino de las Casas; hostility of Guaicurús.
Military weakness of province.
Portuguese advance to Villarrica and Indian towns; attacks by Diez de Andino. Also with decree of the Audiencia de Charcas, La Plata, April 29, 1677, and instructions of Juan Bernardo de Aguilar, La Plata, April 30, 1677, for evidence to be gathered in Asunción.
Abandonment of Villa Rica; price of hierba; encomienda of Ibanapana given to Diego de La Vega; building of boats; removal of Ipané, Guarambaré, and Atirá; arbitration of Lic. Diego Ibañez de Faria, Fiscal of the Audiencia of Guatemala; arrest of Sebastián Prestes; aid sent to Santa Fe; appointment of Francisco de Pesoa y Figueroa; provocation of Guaicurús; bridge at Cachimayo. Signed: Bartolomé González Póveda, Juan Jiménez Lobatón, Antonio de Tapia, Juan Marín, José de Santillán, Juan González de Santiago, Álvaro Pinto and Antonio de Valenzuela; notary Andrés de Balsans.
Fort opposite Asunción for defense against Chaco Indians; forts established up and down the river; the
Request for establishment of presidios and for an expedition against Indians; trade in cattle, mules, maté, tobacco, sugar; cities of Esteco, Jujuy, Salta, and Tarija; Diego Charabuzú; Chiriguanos; use of interpreters.
Complaints of maladministration. See also No. 763 infra.
Complaints of maladministration by Reje Corvalán. Another copy of No. 762 supra.
Interference in trade; favoritism shown by governor.
Surprise attack by Spaniards and slaughter of Indians; fort in the Chaco; cédula of May 11, 1675, cited, concerning reductions of peaceful Indians and warfare against hostile tribes.
Charges made against administration of Corvalán and sentence passed.
Payment in sugar, wheat, corn; witnesses: Juan Severino, Antonio Maciel de Puga, Francisco Ramírez de Guzmán; notarized by Francisco Ortiz de Vergara, copy certified by Domingo Verdejo de Rojas, Antonio Cañete, Juan de Vargas Machuca, Juan de Encinas Mendoza, March 21, 1678.
Data concerning
Union of Paraguay and Río de La Plata Provinces advised.
Printed: MET 48, extract.
Description of conquered and unconquered Indian tribes in Chaco area; Pampas, Serranos, Césares, Charrúas, and Chanés.
Need for Indian encomiendas; death of Cristóbal Ponce de León. Signed: Luis de Crito y Alderete, Pedro de Rojas y Acevedo, Alonso Pastor, Agustín Fajardo, and José Rendón.
Indian hostilities; Reje Corvalán; needs for restraining them.
Portuguese invasion of Villarrica; capture of 16 Tupí Indians; trade in city of Esteco; Chiriguanos allies; danger from floods.
Faustino de Casas, Juan Blásquez de Valverde, and Felipe Reje Corvalán; building of fortification against Portuguese; problems of colonial government.
Poll of high officials in provinces suggested.
Administration of Felipe Reje Corvalán; news of Portuguese in San Pablo.
Reduction of Indians in the Valley of Calchaquí.
Kinder treatment of Indians; settlement of provinces; testimonies of Tomás de Baeza, Felipe Reje Corvalán, and Francisco de Alfaro on conditions of Indians.
Portuguese invasion; attachment of Indians to the soil; town of Itatines; doctrina of San Ignacio; Portuguese attack of 1676. Governor Garro of Buenos Aires.
Proposed invasion of San Gabriel Island; work of Governor Fernando de Mendoza Mata de Luna.
Printed: LPE II, 167-169.
Work of Faustino de las Casas.
Proposed union with Buenos Aires bishopric.
Practical aspects of contemplated removal.
Legal aspects of contemplated removal.
Sentence pronounced by Fray Faustino de las Casas exonerating Reje Corvalán; notification by Captain Juan Severino; activities of Reje Corvalán against Guaicurús, Mbayás, and Payaguás; defense by Nicolás de Castilla; Francisco Sánchez, Santiago Gutiérrez Camino.
Signed: Juan Ortiz de Zárate, Rodrigo de Rojas Aranda, Pedro Vallejo Villasante, Juan Pencinal Mendoza, Manuel Ferrera, Alonso Ortiz de Zárate.
Destruction of Spanish towns; invasion by Antonio Raposo Tabares; cruelty of Portuguese; invasion by Francisco Pedroso; battle in mountains of Amambay; settlements of San Gabriel Island.
Notes on José Bernardino Fermín [Cervín?], Gregorio Suárez Cordero, and Andrés Chacón.
Cédulas concerning church administration and harmonious relations with Indians.
Publication of residencia; favorable report of Diego Ibáñez de Faria; letter of Bernardino Fermín [Cervín?] concerning injustice to a priest of Atirá; reports of Manuel Daza; Juan Méndez de Carvajal.
Education and services in war against Portuguese at San Pablo and Guaicurú and Mbayá Indians; Melchor de Liñán y Cisneros, Archibishop of La Plata; the Santo Oficio; doctrinas of Yutí and Caazapá; María de Sosa.
Destruction of Jerez and Guairá; invasion by Francisco Pedroso; punitive expedition of Marcos de León; settlement of Island of San Gabriel.
Services defending province against Mamelukes, Guaicurús, and Mbayás; assumption of office as governor; destruction of Guairá; provisional government of Tucumán; punishment of Payaguás and other river pirates; garrisons at Arecayá, Tapúa, San Ildefonso, Atirá, Ipané, and Guarambaré against Portuguese and Monteses (Caainguás?); depopulation of Villarrica.
Invasion of Paraguay and Uruguay by Portuguese; removal of 1000 Indian families to Buenos Aires.
Signed: Antonio Fernández Montiel, Martín de Chavarrí, Juan Ortiz de Zárate, Rodrigo de Rojas Aranda, Juan Duarte, Juan de Vargas Machuca, Gabriel Riquelme de Guzmán, Pedro Vallejo Villasante, Juan Camuña Mendoza, and Antonio González Freire.
Tribute collected from Indians; commerce in Paraguay tea and tobacco.
Jesuit opposition to removal.
Faustino de las Casas; settlement in Province of Guaranís.
Contemplated removal of families to Buenos Aires; attitude of Jesuits; danger from Portuguese at San Gabriel; reduction of families to 300; disapproval of Indians.
Certificate of poverty of Jesuits.
Voyage under Juan Tomás Milute; description of the Guaranís.
Mistreatment of Indians; work of Juan Arias de Saavedra and Juan Diez de Andino; hostilities of the Indians. Signed: Alonso Fernández Montiel, Rodrigo de Rojas Aranda, Pedro Domínguez de Obelar, Juan Duarte, Gabriel Riquelme de Guzmán, Antonio González Freire, and Juan Camuña Mendoza.
Includes notices from other sources concerning presence of Portuguese on Spanish colonial frontier.
Protection from Guaicurús and Payaguás; clearance of his residencia.
Conditions of Indians; danger from Portuguese.
Battle with Guaicurús; expedition up the Pilcomayo and Araquaychice Rivers.
Portuguese raids on Spanish settlements.
Need for protection from Guaicurús and Payaguás. Signed: Tomás de Uña Zapata, Francisco de Ledesma Valderrama, Rodrigo de Rojas Aranda, Pedro de Valdivia y Brizuela, Juan Duarte, Gabriel Vigueta de Guzmán, Hernando de Salazar, Pedro Vallejo Villasante, Antonio Caballero de Peñasco, Francisco Venegas de Guzmán, and Antonio González Freire.
Request for financial help from Viceroy; inventory of supplies taken along.
Reason for sending an expedition in midwinter; description of Indian raid on Spanish settlements.
Works of Jesuits and Franciscans. Signed: José Bernardino Cervín, Clemente Sánchez de Vera, Gregorio Suárez Cárdenas (Calderón?), and Juan Caballero Irarrazábal.
Fear of Portuguese invasion: royal provisions for conversion of Monteses Indians, rebuilding of church with money from Potosí; gift of 1000 pesos by Cristóbal de Zamora y Castilla; erection of 2
Expedition to investigate colony of Jerez; league of Portuguese and Payaguás.
Naming of José Bernardo Cervín as
Expedition to Guaicurús, Guanás, and Mbayás; punishment for assaults on Spaniards; report of spies on activities of Portuguese.
Punishment of Payaguás Indians; reduction of the Guaicurús and Mbayás; founding of Jérez by Portuguese; settlement of Island of San Gabriel.
Exploration and occupation of Pilcomayo River.
Reduction of Tobas and Mocoví tribes; hardships of winter campaign; Indian attack on city of Esteco.
Recommended by Diego Altamirano, Provisor de la Compañía de Jesús.
New Jesuit mission in Ibarotí.
Exemption from media anata for military posts; expedition to Jerez; transmission of mail by Francisco de Retana, via San Gabriel Island.
Rebuilding of cathedral; churches of Santo Domingo and Company of Jesus and of transferred towns of San Pedro de Ipané and La Natividad de Nuestra Señora de Guarambaré; production of hierba; destruction of Espíritu Santo by Portuguese.
Signed: Antonio Caballero Añasco, Juan Ortiz de Zárate, Pedro Vallejo Villasanta, José Franco de Torres, Franco Venegas de Guzmán, Pedro de Valdivia y Brizuela, Antonio González Freire, Pedro de Zamora, Pedro Salazar Girasalva, and Gabriel Siguta de Guzmán.
Massacre of 23 Spaniards in 1688; continued threats from Indians; contributions for expedition of Francisco de Ávalos y Mendoza; campaign of Juan de Vargas Machuca.
Cultivation of Paraguay tea by Indians; rights granted Indians by Spanish, in return for conversion.
Trade in Paraguay tea; capture of Villarrica by Portuguese; economic needs of Indians.
Removal of restraint of trade in Paraguay tea and effect it would have on cities of Paraguay; cultivation of tea by Indians; defense against Guaicurús.
Work of Sebastián Félix de Mendiola.
Letter of Felipe Reje Corvalán; Portuguese invasion of Villarrica; letter of Faustino de las Casas.
Conde de Monclova; Marqués de Carjú; Lope de Sierra; Manuel de Bustamante; Juan de Castro; Martín de Solís; Sebastián de Ortega; Mateo Ibáñez; Diego Hermoso.
Informe concerning failure of Indians in Jesuit doctrinas to comply with cedula for conservation of Paraguay tea.
Diego Cristóbal Mejía, president of Audiencia.
Towns of San Ignacio, Nuestra Señora de Fe, and Santiago; popularity of Paraguay tea. Signed: Miguel de Ormaza González de León, Francisco González Rey, Luis Montalvo, Clemente Díaz de Durana y Urrorte, and José de Antequera Enríquez.
Expenses incurred in rebuilding Cathedral during governorships of Monforte and Mendiola; administration of Juan Rodríguez Cota.
Francisco de Monforte; Sebastián de Mendiola; Antonio Gamarra y Mendoza.
Administration of Juan Diez de Andino and Faustino de las Casas, Bishop of Paraguay.
Examination by Sebastián Félix de Mendiola; Portuguese occupation of Villarrica; report of Francisco de Monforte; relations with Diego de Yegros and Doña Úrsula Vallejo Villasanti [sic]; collection of tribute from convent of Order of Mercy, from Espínola de Figueroa, and Juan Velázquez de Valverde; encomienda of Roque de Vera; convent of Santo Domingo; Jesuit college.
Case of P. Antonio Suárez, Franciscan; flight of male Indians to province of Río de la Plata.