1. Letter to Felipe IV. Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera; June 30.
2. Letter to Corcuera. Felipe IV; October 11.
3. Royal decrees. Felipe IV; August–November.

Sources: The first document, and the first of the three decrees, are obtained from MSS. in the Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla; the rest, from the “Cedulario Indico,” in the Archivo Historico Nacional, Madrid.

Translations: The first document is translated by Emma Helen Blair; the second, by Robert W. Haight; the third, by James A. Robertson.