Documents of the Coronado Expedition, 1539-1542: "They Were Not Familiar with His Majesty, nor Did They Wish to Be His Subjects"

Richard Flint; Shirley Cushing Flint

Documents of the Coronado Expedition, 1539-1542

"They Were Not Familiar with His Majesty, nor Did They Wish to Be His Subjects"

Richard Flint

Publication Year: 2012

This volume is the first annotated, dual-language edition of thirty-four original documents from the Coronado expedition. Using the latest historical, archaeological, geographical, and linguistic research, historians and paleographers Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint make available accurate transcriptions and modern English translations of the documents, including seven never before published and seven others never before available in English. The volume includes a general introduction and explanatory notes at the beginning of each document.

Documents of the Coronado Expedition, 1539-1542

Front Cover

Title Page, Copyright Page

Contents

Illustrations

General Introduction

Document 1: Letter of Vázquez de Coronado to the King, December 15, 1538

Document 2: Letter of Vázquez de Coronado to Viceroy Mendoza, March 8, 1539

Document 3: Letter of Vázquez de Coronado to the King, July 15, 1539

Document 4: Letter of the Viceroy to the King, 1539

Document 5: Decree of the King Appointing Vázquez de Coronado Governor of Nueva Galicia, April 18, 1539

Document 6: The Viceroy’s Instructions to Fray Marcos de Niza, November 1538, and Narrative Account by Fray Marcos de Niza, August 26, 1539

Document 7: Letters from Antonio de Mendoza and Rodrigo de Albornoz, October 1539

Document 8: Testimony of Witnesses in Habana Regarding Fray Marcos’s Discoveries, November 1539

Document 9: The Viceroy’s Appointment of Vázquez de Coronado to Lead the Expedition, January 6, 1540

Document 10: The King’s Confirmation of Vázquez de Coronado’s Appointment, June 11, 1540

Document 11: Testimony of Juan Bermejo and of Vázquez de Coronado’s Purchasing Agent, Juan Fernández Verdejo, 1552

Document 12: Muster Roll of the Expedition, Compostela, February 22, 1540

Document 13: Record of Mexican Indians Participating in the Expedition, 1576

Document 14: Hearing on Depopulation Charges, February 26, 1540

Document 15: Narrative of Alarcón’s Voyage, 1540

Document 16: The Viceroy’s Instructions to Hernando Alarcón, May 31, 1541

Document 17: The Viceroy’s Letter to the King, Jacona, April 17, 1540

Document 18: Hernán Cortés’s Brief to Carlos V Concerning the Injuries Done to Him by the Viceroy of Nueva España, June 25, 1540

Document 19: Vázquez de Coronado’s Letter to the Viceroy, August 3, 1540

Document 20: Formation of a Company between Mendoza and Pedro de Alvarado, Tiripitío, November 29, 1540

Document 21: Account of Pedro de Alvarado’s Armada, 1541

Document 22: Traslado de las Nuevas (Anonymous Narrative), 1540

Document 23: La Relación Postrera de Cíbola (Fray Toribio de Benavente’s Narrative), 1540s

Document 24: Hernando de Alvarado’s Narrative, 1540

Document 25: Letter from Viceroy Mendoza to Fernández de Oviedo, October 6, 1541

Document 26: Vázquez de Coronado’s Letter to the King, October 20, 1541

Document 27: Disposal of the Juan Jiménez Estate, 1542 (Copy, 1550)

Document 28: The Relación de la Jornada de Cíbola, Pedro de Castañeda de Nájera’s Narrative, 1560s (copy, 1596)

Document 29: The Relación del Suceso (Anonymous Narrative), 1540s

Document 30: Juan Jaramillo’s Narrative, 1560s

Document 31: Juan Troyano’s Proof of Service, 1560

Document 32: Melchior Pérez’s Petition for Preferment, 1551

Document 33: Cristóbal de Escobar’s Proof of Service, 1543

Document 34: Vázquez de Coronado’s Petition for Recovery of Encomiendas, 1553

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations Used in the Appendixes, Notes, and References

Appendix 1: Biographical Data

Appendix 2: Geographical Data

Appendix 3: Known Members of the Coronado Expedition

Appendix 4: Requerimiento

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

About the Editors

Back Cover

Research Areas

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