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All three of the individuals signing this archive came north with General De Vargas twelve years later. The mine was probably situate somewhere west of the present town of Engle, Sierra county, New Mexico. Don Domingo Jironza Petriz de Cruzate was named governor and captain-general of the province of New Mexico, referred to in all his awtos and other official documents as ‘‘Reino’’ (kingdom), in the year 1682, succeeding Don Antonio de Otermin. Carlos II sent him as visittador to the Leeward Islands. He was prominent 1n the wars with Portugal. A copy of his commission appears later in this volume. He had been alcalde of Mestitlan when appointed governor of New Mexico. He endeavored to regain the province, but failed. Bancroft says that he was succeeded by General Pedro Reneros de Posada. See archives in office of the surveyorgeneral for New Mexico, Files R. A., R. B., and R. C., from which it will be seen that as late as September 25, 1689, he was making grants of land to the pueblos of San Juan, Jemez, Pecos, and others. These archives, in my judgment, are spurious. Don Pedro Ortiz Nifio Ladron de Guevarra was his secretary of government and war at the time. In 1688, Reneros de Posada was a general under Cruzate and may have been a governor and captain-general ad interim. He was in a campaign against the apostates as far north as the pueblo of Cia. See affidavit of Bartolomé de Ojeda, Indian of Zia, where this fact appears. Archive File RH, No. A, 8. G, 0, Escalante says so, also. Governor Cruzate joins with Ojeda in making this affidavit, and in it the ‘‘affair’’ at Zia is mentioned. Bancroft and all the rest err as to the date of the ap- pointment of Governor Cruzate. He was appointed on or prior to the 20th day of August, 1134, which I give in full as being 1682. of sufficient import- torical writers: “ONE REAL. Third Seal. ONE REAL. Years one thousand six hundred and seventy-nine and eighty. (STAMP)-(STAMP) ‘‘T, Thomas Lorenzo Manuel Manrique de la Cerda Henrique Afan de Rivera Porto Arro and Cardena, cénde de Paredes, Marqués de la Laguna, knight commander of Moraleja in the Order and Knighthood of Aleantara, at the court of His Majesty, acting viceroy and governor and captain-general of New Spain, president of the Royal Audiencia of the same, having appointed as governor and captain-general of the province of New Mexico, Captain Domingo Jironza Petriz de Cruzate and having determined in general council that it is necessary and proper in view of the authority I have conferred on the said appointee, to make distributions of land, that the governor of Viscaya be notified thereof, in order that he may confine himself to those which pertain alone to his jurisdiction, and to the end that the one and the other may reciprocally enjoy a good understanding, each confining himself within the limits of his own jurisdiction, having to do only with the demarcations of their governments, it being understood that the territory of Vizcaya extends up to the river of Nombre de Dios, otherwise called Sacramento, and that thence the territory of the government of New Mexico begins, with which declaration all controversy will cease. “‘I, therefore, command the said Captain Domingo Jironza Petriz de Cruzate to notify and make known this decision to Bartolomé de Estrada of the Order of Santiago and governor and captain-general of the Royal Province of Nueva Vizcaya, so that, should he have any representation to make he may report to this government, confining himself to the Interior; and I direct said appointee that he urge and compel all Spaniards who may have fled from El Paso Mexico and other and who jurisdiction, jurisdictions of the Province of New may now be within the territory of his to return fully of the execution he may deem proper. to that place, he of this mandate reporting and to me of whatever ‘‘Mexico, August 20, 1682. ‘“THE CONDE DE ParREDES Marques pg LA LAGUNA See archive ance, thereby settling the conflicting statements of his- 3 ‘‘By [rubric] Command of His Excellency : ~ PEDRO VELASQUEZ DE LA CApENA.”? Attached to this archive are a number of ‘* protests, ’’ notably one from the officials of the City of Parral, in which is found a great deal of information of great value dealing with mining and agricultural matters in that |