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332 Part Two Hammond, ed., Fray Alonso de Benavides’ Revised Memorial of 1634 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1945), 319–29. (E & S) 7. In 1650, Captain Hernán Martín Serrano and Captain Diego López del Castillo led a small troop of soldiers with a large number of Pueblo Indian warriors on an expedition to the area of modern-day Texas, following the Concho River of south-central Texas, in the region of the Jumano Indians. AGI, Indiferente, 120, N. 44, f. 1v, Relación de méritos y servicios de Diego de Guadalajara, 1664. See Supp. Doc. 4 above. (E & S) 8. Nine nations at La Junta de los Ríos and sixty-six in the interior. 9. For the report by fray Alonso de Posadas, see S. Lyman Tyler and M. Darrel Taylor, eds. and trans., “The Report of Fray Alonso de Posadas in Relation to Quivira and Teguayo,” New Mexico Historical Review 33 (October 1958): 285–314. (E & S) 10. Licenciado don Lope de Sierra Osorio was a member of the Council of the Indies from 1684 to 1702. Ernst Schäfer, Las rúbricas del Consejo Real y Supreme de las Indias desde la fundación del Consejo en 1524 hasta la terminación del reinado del los Austrias (Sevilla: Universidad Publicaciones del Centro de Estudios de História, 1934), 43. 11. There is as yet no evidence that the vocabulary was ever printed. 12. This phrase is not translated because its meaning is not clear. Supplemental Document 11 Account of the Services of Don Domingo Jironza Petríz de Cruzate, Former Governor and Captain General of the Provinces of New Mexico January 12, 16931 I, José del Castillo, public proprietary scribe del número of this City of Mexico of New Spain, give faith and true testimony in the form that I can. Having reviewed the papers and instruments that General don Domingo Jironza Petríz de Cruzate exhibited before Captain don Alonso de Morales, justicia mayor of the Estate and Marquesdao del Valle, alcalde ordinario of this City of Mexico by [appointment of] His Majesty, and before me, to formulate this certification. First, there is recorded a testimony in brief, sealed and signed, it appears, by Carlos de Sigüenza, scribe of His Majesty, dated January 16 of the past year of 1688 in this City of Mexico. Having asked for a memorial, that the said General don Domingo Jironza presented to the Most Excellent Señor Conde de la Monclova, viceroy, Supplemental Documents 333 governor, and captain general of this New Spain, and president of the Real Audiencia of [New Spain], forming an narrative account of his merits and military services. And, by decree dated July 24 of the referred-to year, it was ordered to be formed. And according to the accounts that were exhibited, it appears to have been made. His Majesty, may God protect, through a royal decree, legalized by don José de Beitia Linaje, his secretary in the royal Supreme Council of the Indies, appointed the said General don Domingo Jironza as captain of the royal sealed papers (pliegos) in one notice that was dispatched to this Kingdom of New Spain, and the presidios of Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico, Havana and Cuba, in the past year of 1688, also being appointed as visitador of those [places]. For this the lord president and lord judge of the royal casas de contratación [of the Indies] in the City of Sevilla provided him with instructions for the mission of his voyage and the distribution of the sealed papers, giving him the title of captain of infantry of fifty soldiers that were enlisted for the purpose of security and defense of the said ship. And it appears from the said testimony that his said charge was completed with all punctuality, delivering all of the sealed papers. His Majesty directed the Most Excellent Señor Viceroy don fray Payo de Rivera, to whom he commended the person of the said General don Domingo Jironza, entrusting [in him] a request to Your Excellency, that as soon as he arrived with the said sealed papers, he was to accommodate him with one of the offices of his royal provisions; and if no opportunity existed, he would enlist him in one of those [offices] of Your Excellency. For his performance he was provided with the alcaldía mayor of Mestitlán, being dispatched a title in due form. He gave a good account of himself, delivering the royal tributes...

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