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Supplemental Document 5: Certification of the Number of Friars Serving in the Conventos of the Custody of New Mexico, Mexico City, December 6, 1667
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304 Part Two case against his first cousin (primo hermano), Nicolás de Aguilar, and his uncle, Sargento Mayor Diego Romero. Doña Jacinta de Guadalajara Bernardo y Quiros, born circa 1640, Santa Fe, married Felipe Romero, born circa 1639–1641, son of Matías Romero and doña Isabel de Pedraza. By 1661, doña Jacinta and her husband resided at their Estancia de San Antonio de Sevilleta, located in the area of the pueblo of Alamillo in the Río Abajo. It appears that after his wife’s death don Diego de Guadalajara also left New Mexico. By 1679, he was residing in New Spain, where he was serving as alcalde mayor of Metepec in the Valle de Toluca. See Esquibel, “Romero Family of Seventeenth-century New Mexico,” 11:3, 2–20. (E & S) 2. This royal decree, dated September 6, 1629, is preserved in AGI, Indiferente , 452, L.A. 12, f. 122v–123, Real cédula al Marqués de Cerralvo, Virrey de Nueva España, recomendándole a Francisco de Guadalajara, September 6, 1629, Madrid. (E & S) 3. The order to conduct the residencia of don Francisco de Guadalajara as alcalde mayor of Guatulco was issued in 1634. The order is preserved in AGN, Indiferente Virreinal, Alcaldes Mayores 6474, exp. 54, and consists of two pages. (E & S) Supplemental Document 5 Certification of the Number of Friars Serving in the Conventos of the Custody of New Mexico Mexico City, December 6, 16671 Fray Domingo Cardoso of the Order of the Friars Minor of the Regular Observance of Our Seraphic Father St. Francis, preacher, and minister provincial of this Province of the Holy Gospel, Custodies of Tampico [and] New Mexico, nuns of Santa Clara, and Brothers of the Third Order, etc. I certify to you the jueces oficiales of the royal treasury of this New Spain, who reside in this city of Mexico, that from August 3 of the year 1663 until August 3 of last year, 1666, the [number of] friar priests which will be stated have assisted and assist in the convents of the conversions of the Custody of New Mexico. And they have served during the aforesaid three years, occupying themselves in the administration of the Holy Catholic Faith and catechizing innumerable others of different nations who are being converted to it by means of their teaching and preaching. And in the same they will serve throughout the following triennium in the same activity, fulfilling Supplemental Documents 305 insofar as pertains to us the ministry to which His Majesty (God keep him) has appointed the aforesaid friars, for which purpose he aids them with his royal alms in advance. Therefore, in consideration of the above, there is owing to the aforesaid friars the [alms] for the three years which began to run and be counter from the third day of August of the past year of 1666 and which will cease to accrue on the third of the aforesaid month of the coming year 1669,2 provided the number of friars which is included in this certification of ours in each one of the convents if the aforesaid Custody is maintained. And, in addition, [it certifies] the extremely urgent need there is of a larger number of priests for the greater honor and glory of both Majesties, as follows: 1. In the convent of La Concepción of the Villa of Santa Fe there are and will be three friar-priests who administer the villa itself, three visitas, and several estancias, and it is necessary that there should be five friars, four priests and one lay brother. 2. In the convent of Nuestro Padre San Francisco of Nambé there are and will be two friars, one priest and one lay brother. The priest administers the pueblo, two visitas, and several estancias. There is need of another priest. 3. In the convent of San Ildefonso there is and will be one friar-priest who administers the pueblo and six estancias, and, for lack of friars, he visits the convent of Santa Clara of Tetehuas [Tewas] and that of San Juan, which belongs to the same nation, distant and distinct pueblos. And, at the very least, three friars, two priests and one lay brother are needed. 4. In the convent of San Lorenzo of the pueblo of Picurís there are and will be two friars, one a priest who administers the pueblo. And because the aforesaid pueblo is in the sierra, and in addition to the distance, has the disadvantage...