[9] Edmonson, p. 33.
[10] Ibid., p. 18.
[11] H. E. Bolton, "The Spanish Borderlands and the Mission as a Frontier Institution," American Historical Review (Santa Fe, 1917), vol. 23, pp. 42-61, indicates that this policy was developed after 1765 by Charles III of Spain in an attempt to reorganize the administration of his vast colonial empire.
[12] AASF, Patentes, book lxxiii, box 6.
[13] "The Penitentes of the Southwest" (unpublished Ph. D. dissertation, Yale University, 1935).
[14] Chavez, Archives, p. 3 (ftn.).
[15] Fray Francisco Atanasio Domínguez, The Missions of New Mexico, 1776, transl. and annot. Eleanor B. Adams and Fray Angelico Chavez (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1956), p. 124.
[16] Domínguez, ms., from Biblioteca Nacional de Méjico, leg. 10, no. 46, p. 300.
[17] Ibid., no. 43, p. 321.
[18] Chavez, "Penitentes," p. 100.