[XX‑6] Id., 273-4. In May 1547 Bishop Pedraza asked the king for an increase of salary from 500,000 maravedís to 2,000 ducados, the stipend given to the bishop of Guatemala and others. Squier's MSS., xxii. 29. The royal officials were ordered in 1540 to investigate the question of salaries and amount of tithes received yearly in each bishopric. If they fell short of 500,000 maravedís, the deficit was to be supplied out of the royal treasury. Recop. de Ind., i. 63-4.
[XX‑7] Cacao formed the chief and most valuable tithe in the diocese. Id., 94. The payment of tithes on pita—the fibre of the agave manufactured into articles of clothing etc.—and balsam and the carrying of tithes to the churches was under consideration by the audiencia, December 20, 1545. Id., 132.
[XX‑8] Squier's MSS., xxii. 92, 4. In December 1551 the viceroy of Mexico addressed the cabildo on this question and expressed his astonishment at the outcry against the payment of tithes, 'que de derecho divino y humano son obligados a pagallos.' Arévalo, Col. Doc. Antig., 181-2.
[XX‑9] Squier's MSS., xxii. 44-5, 120-1, 123, 139; Cartas de Indias, 19-23, 442.
[XX‑10] In 1546 according to Gonzalez Dávila, Hist. Ecles., i. 149. Vazquez states that the convent of La Concepcion was not founded until 1577. Chron. de Gvat., 153.
[XX‑11] Remesal, Hist. Chyapa, 441. Vazquez, as previously quoted, however, states that the name of the first lady superior was Juana de San Francisco, implying that she was a Franciscan and not a Dominican. This author's whole account is a contradiction of Remesal's version.
[XX‑12] The emperor contributed 2,000 ducados toward its founding. Gonzalez Dávila, Teatro Ecles., i. 152.
[XX‑13] Remesal, Hist. Chyapa, 585. Gonzalez Dávila says that Marroquin 'Dio principio al Hospital de S. Alexo, donde se curã Indios y Españoles, que oy es Hospital Real, en año 1647'—a misprint for 1547—Teatro Ecles., i. 150. This hospital was founded for the benefit of Indians who were no longer capable of service, and whom the Spaniards were wont to turn out into the streets to die like dogs. Guat., Santo Domingo en 1724, 55.
[XX‑14] Vazquez, Chron. de Gvat., 152. Consult also Remesal, Hist. Chyapa, 584-6, where a somewhat different account is given. In claiming merit for his order this author represents the Indians as unwilling to enter the hospital of Santiago, preferring that of San Alejo. Both hospitals received liberal support from the crown.
[XX‑15] The second opening of the Dominican convent took place about July 1536. Though Remesal, on pages 111, 115, states that Las Casas arrived at Santiago in 1535, there is positive evidence that 1536 is the right year. In the deposition, taken in Leon on the 23d of August 1536, relative to the proceeding of Las Casas in Nicaragua, the witness Martinez de Isagre in his evidence mentions that the padre left Leon about two months previous to that date. Informaciones, in Pacheco and Cárdenas, Col. Doc., vii. 141, 143. Gonzalez Dávila makes the same error as Remesal. Teatro Ecles., i. 143. Juarros is correct. Guat., 264. Torquemada, iii. 338, states that friars Pedro de Angulo, Juan de Torres, and Matias de Paz, were sent from Mexico in 1538 to found the province of the order in Guatemala.