[XIX‑3] Fray Pedro de Barrientos was appointed superior, and according to Pineda, 129, by Bishop Marroquin. The cabildo granted the friars their choice of an allotment, and they selected one near the Cerro de la Cruz on the road to Chapultepec. An additional piece of land, 130 paces square, was also given them for their church and convent. Remesal, Hist. Chyapa, 436-7; Juarros, Hist. Guat., 63-4; Pineda, Descrip. Geog., 129.
[XIX‑4] In 1546 Fray Marcos was succeeded by Friar Hernando de Arbolancha. The former established a cattle farm near Copanabastla, where he also built a country-house and a sugar-mill.
[XIX‑5] According to Remesal, Hist. Chyapa, 202; Gonzalez Dávila, Teatro Ecles., i. 189, April 14th; Calle, Mem. y Not., 122, May 19th; Larrainzar, Hist. Soconusco, 20, April 14th; Pacheco and Cárdenas, Col. Doc., viii. 26, May 15th. All these dates are wrong, as may be seen from a copy of the bull in Nueva España, Breve Res., MS., ii. 392.
[XIX‑6] Nueva España, Breve Res., MS., ii. 389-92.
[XIX‑7] In Nueva España, Breve Res., MS., it is remarked that a copy of this document is nowhere to be found, but that Remesal makes mention of it as being identical with that of the Guatemalan bishopric, except in the exordium. In the cathedral of Chiapas no account of it exists. See Remesal, Hist. Chyapa, 202. The personnel of the cathedral was to consist of a dean, archdean, precentor, chancellor, and treasurer, besides two canons and other ecclesiastics. Gonzalez Dávila, Teatro Ecles., i. 189.
[XIX‑8] Remesal states that the immediate cause of his death was taking poison during the night in mistake for water. Mazariegos inclines to the opinion that the fatal draft was taken while Arteaga was delirious with fever. Mem. Chiapa, 45. According to Calle, Mem. y Not., 122, Avendaño was a native of Estepa. Some of the members of his chapter went to Santiago, and others remained at Ciudad Real in a destitute condition, but were provided for by Marroquin. They asked that their allowance be given them from the revenues of that church, but this was refused by Marroquin until the emperor's decision should be known. Pacheco and Cárdenas, Col. Doc., xiii. 278-9.
[XIX‑9] In his memorial to the audiencia Oct. 22, 1545, Squier's MSS., xxii. 176, Las Casas claims Yucatan and Tezulutlan. June 4, 1545, Bishop Marroquin acknowledges receipt of the prince's letter assigning Soconusco to Las Casas. Id., 121.
[XIX‑10] Remesal, Hist. Chyapa, 223, says the 9th; Las Casas, in Quintana, Vidas, 184, the 10th; Helps, Span. Conq., iv. 302, the 4th.
[XIX‑11] Pacheco and Cárdenas, Col. Doc., vii. 211-14.
[XIX‑12] Las Casas, Relacion de entrada, in Pacheco and Cárdenas, Col. Doc., vii. 157.