[23] Ibid., 60.
[24] Ibid., 56; 3–2–12, 13, 53, 28–33.
[25] Ibid., 9–11.
[26] Ibid., 10.
[27] Montero y Vidal, Historia general, I, 94; Martínez de Zúñiga, An historical view, I, 184–192.
[28] Ibid., I, 192.
[29] Ibid., I, 199.
[30] Montero y Vidal, op. cit., I, 106–107; Martínez de Zúñiga, op. cit., I, 195.
[31] Morga’s Sucesos, Blair and Robertson, XVI, 61.
[32] Acuña designated Almansa to supervise military affairs instead of Oidor Maldonado, who was in reality senior magistrate, and as such should have assumed the direction of military affairs in accordance with the practice elsewhere, and in compliance with the laws of the Indies. The fiscal objected to this illegal procedure, as he termed it, alleging that the governor was not authorized by law to choose his own successor. He pointed out that, according to the existing laws, the senior magistrate should succeed to the military command by his own right, without the interference either of the governor or the audiencia. Notwithstanding this protest, Almansa continued to hold the post of acting captain-general, for which it was said that he was better fitted than Maldonado.