Salaries of fourteen officialspesos23,528.0
Yearlyremittanceto the Suprema9,926.3
““to its Secretary496.2
““to two other secretaries and two clerks at 275 1,100.0
——11,522.5
Maintenance of poor prisoners850.0
Extraordinary expenses2,800.0
Expenses of the cámara del secreto250.0
38,950.5
Spent in seven years on the houses of inquisitors7,000.0

In giving this Medina (pp. 252-3) calls attention to the fact that inthis enumeration are not included the salaries of a number of otherofficials mentioned by the receiver, as follows:

A third secretary1000
Notario del juzgado1400
Contador200
Juez de los bienes confiscados1000
Advocate of prisoners200
Steward300
Solicitador100
Barber100
4300

There is significance in the annual payments to the secretaries of theSuprema whose good will might at any moment be useful.

[630] MSS. of White Library, Cornell University, n. 616, fol. 65.

[631] Medina, Chile, II, 396; Lima, II, 315-19, 326, 331, 352-3.—Archivo nacional de Lima, Protocolo 225, Expte 5278.—Memorias de los Vireyes, IV, 490.

A salutary regulation required each viceroy, at the expiration of his term, to draw up an account of his experience and of the condition of affairs for the benefit of his successor. These, so far as recovered, were printed at Lima in 1859, under the title of Memorias de los Vireyes.

[632] Medina, Lima, II, 382-3.

[633] Mackenna, p. 116.—Medina, Lima, II, 392.—Memorias de los Vireyes, VI, 51.

[634] Medina, Lima, I, 44, 47, 204, 223.

[635] Medina, Lima, I, 223-47, 251. After Villar’s term was ended, in 1590, the inquisitors prosecuted his secretary, Juan Bello, because, when some one insisted on having certain papers, Bello exclaimed impatiently that he could not have them even if God wished it, and also because he had said that he would rather have to do with demons than with the frailes.—Ibidem, p. 258.

[636] Ibidem, p. 217.

[637] Medina, Lima, I, 262, 264, 274, 277-80, 282.