: The unwritten history of old St. Augustine by Brooks A M Abbie M Editor Averette Annie Translator - Saint Augustine (Fla.) History; Florida History Spanish colony 1565-1763 Sources

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Royal Decree from King Philip II in reference to further discovery and settlement of Florida--Officers and number of men appointed to go in the Armada--Reports from the Armada after leaving--Report from Pedro Menendez to his Majesty--The English and French have already settled here--Necessity of Spaniards taking entire control--Letter from the King to Pedro Menendez--Tells of English and French vessels reported to have sailed for these Provinces--King sends Fleet with sailors, soldiers and supplies that the person of Pedro Menendez may be guarded properly as Governor and Captain General of the Province of Florida.

Pedro Menendez gives an account to his Majesty of the Fort Matanzas Massacre--Menendez and army escape from being made prisoners by the French on account of a tornado--Because of the swollen river the Council agree to make a land attack--Spaniards surprise and take Fort Matanzas without loss of a single man--Killing over two hundred Frenchmen and capturing Laudonnier--Find Indians enchanted with the Lutherans--Shipwrecked Frenchmen found on coast--With hands tied behind them are stabbed in the back by Spaniards.

Report of Fernando Miranda, agent to the King, complains of Governor--Espionage over vessels--Gives account of work of negroes--Houses and churches built, land cleared--Soldiers assist in repairing Fort--Report of Bartolome De Arguellas--Capture of rebellious Indians--Sending some to Havana to be hanged, some to be imprisoned--Casiques render obedience to the Governor who assures them of his good intentions--Pedro Pertrene reports to the King of being newly appointed to be Captain of a Garrison in Florida--Insufficiency of salary to meet expenses--Because of long service to his Majesty implores aid and satisfaction--Dona Maria Menendez, Casique, writes the King asking aid in meeting the expenses of instructing the Indians in Christianity and good government.

Extract from official report made by Gonzales Menendez Canso, Governor and Captain-General--Six priests of the San Franciscan order murdered by Indians--Lieutenant Eciga sent to see if any of the priests are still living--Hears of one--Is refused permission to see him--After much persuasion and many threats Friar Fray Francisco is delivered--Manner of the death of the others is investigated--Fray Francisco makes a statement in regard to the death of the other priests, is forbidden by the Canons of the Church to reveal all--Notary Public Juan Ximenes swears to the investigation of several Indians through an interpreter--Execution of Indian Lucas as participating in the murder of Fray Blas.

Letter from one of eleven monks sent out by his Majesty to spread the gospel--Report eighty churches in different Missions--Indians lazy and improvident--Avarice of Governor causes dissatisfaction--People desire his immediate removal--Fray Lopez, a Missionary, has converted many Indians in twelve years of service, among them Don Juan, a Casique, who stands highly among his people--His influence quells many uprisings--Juan Nunez Rios complains of Governor in a letter to the King--Begs for an open Port that the people may go back and forth and trade--An officer asks to be allowed to serve his Majesty elsewhere--Fray Blas De Montes implores that he may be allowed to come to Spain for retirement--Gives account of a fire which burned the church among other houses--Slow progress among the Indians--Advices that a Bishop be sent--Report of Gonzales Menendez Canso to his Majesty--A shipmaster bearing dispatches shipwrecked in storm--Governor aids him from the Royal Treasury--Auditor from his Majesty arrives--Reports the Garrison abounding in fruits and grain--Grieves over the death of the Christian Indian Don Juan--Return of Fray Lopez from New Spain in good health--Reports the money brought to establish a hospital--More money needed for Garrison expenses--Francisco Redondo Villegas, Officer of Customs, is not treated with the respect due his Royal Office by the Governor--Reports affairs in a muddled condition--Soldiers well drilled--Much land under cultivation--Wages small--Rations insufficient.

Minutes of a Bull or Bill of Supplication to be presented to the Holy See asking for concession of graces and powers for Catholic residents in Florida--Minorcan families brought priest and monk with them--Wish new privileges and graces granted--In regard to a Cedula from his Majesty, which instructs as to duties on wine--Priests and Monks of Tasco use Municipal monies for their own interests--Advises a change in the office of Treasurer of the Royal Chest--Vessels carry important papers for his Majesty lost--Favors shown to Don Francisco gratifies the people--Letter from Pedro Ibarra to his Majesty says there is not sufficient support for the Garrison--Solicits aid for a poor widow--Soldiers find amber in a fish, for which Menendez exacts a duty--French and English pirates cause much anxiety--A few captured, some imprisoned and ten hanged--Visiting Indian chiefs so impressed with the religious services and processions that they ask for friars to instruct their people--Asks for assistance in building a fort at the mouth of Miguel Moro--Endeavors to find the source of river San Mateo and Lake Miami--A garrison of warlike people--Proposition to establish a Manager of the Inquisition to subjugate and control them--Does not wish to let certain priest and captain--Report of Juan Menendez Marquez--Deplores the decision to reduce the garrison--Advises a return to the policy of Pedro Menendez, his cousin--Desires permission to come to Spain to more fully lay the condition before his Majesty.

Report of Antonio Benavides to his Majesty--The Spanish King instructs the establishment of friendly relations with the English of the Carolinas--Don Francisco Menendez with other officers sent out--Mission fails owing to the English not having yet received instructions from London--Requested the removal of an English fort built on Spanish territory--Refusal--The matter fully laid before his Majesty--Report of Luis De Rojas--A Frigate sent out to assist a fleet in bringing supplies, run down by an enemy, boat stripped and burned, soldiers and crew escape to shore and finally reach the garrison--They collect Indians and soldiers and return--The enemy take to their launches and escape--Forty-seven persons only saved from a Spanish Fleet which had been captured by a Dutch Fleet--Recommends that his Majesty build a fort at the bar of the place called Jega--Report of Luis Ussitinez to his Majesty--The Mandate of the King carried out for prayer to Almighty God for the success of the King's arms taken up against France--At a meeting of the Board of the City Council of Havana appears a clergyman of the Holy Office of the Inquisition with an Auto from the Se?or Comissionado, Don Francisco de las Casas, containing instructions as to certain ceremonies in connection with the Inquisition.

Pedro Menendez received the title of Governor by right of conquest, and Captain-General and Commander of the Fleet by conference of his Majesty for faithful, valorous service--Don Martin Menendez receives the title of perpetual Governor by right of inheritance--Important papers burned at Simancas--Manuel De Mendoza reports to his Majesty as to the designs of the English enemy--Discovery of the South Sea--Condition of this Garrison and other Provinces--Implores aid in completing fortifications--Report to his Majesty by Francisco De La Guerra y Vega concerning an Englishman taken prisoner in the Province of Guale--One of a crew sent out from a settlement of English at St. Elena--This man who was second in authority was confined in prison on soldiers' rations--An effort made to break up the English settlement, which was unsuccessful.

Letters to the King from the Governor Pablo Ita Salazer--Oath of office administered in the tower of the old Fort which is rapidly going into ruins--The Garrison needing supplies and ammunition--No warehouses, and owing to the distance and frequency of storms delaying supplies, the people are forced to hunt in the woods for roots to appease their hunger--The Fort in danger from pirates--Ammunition and guards exposed to the fatalities of the weather--Pleads for more money to complete the Castle--Its great importance--A pentagonal shape recommended--The Viceroy of Spain fails to send the ten thousand dollars--One hundred men needed to guard the Castle--Great danger from pirates--Two hundred leagues from Havana and five hundred from New Spain.

An effort made to dislodge the English from Santa Elena--Governor ordered to complete the Castle and defense of the Garrison--Yucatan families--Master weavers asked for to settle in Florida--Appalache considered the best Province for settlement--Supplies sent from New Spain--Barracks to be made in the Fort for the soldiers--Money sent to finish the new Castle, also supplies for the soldiers--The neighbors to assist in building the new Castle--Repairs on the bulwarks of Guale--Increase of troops for St. Augustine--A fortress ordered built at Appalache.

Letter from Pablo Ita Salazer to his Majesty--Indians of the Province of Guale declare themselves friendly to the English, and make war upon the Spaniards of the Island of St. Catherine--They surprise the six sentinels, killing all but one who escaped and gave warning--The people gather in the convent of a Friar and defend themselves from day light until four o'clock, when aid reaches them from the Garrison of St. Augustine, whereupon the enemy retires--The natives of the Island greatly alarmed--Disquieting news of the intentions of the enemy upon this Garrison--Implores aid from the King quickly, that the English may be ejected from the land--Don Juan Marquez Cabrera, Governor and Captain-General of Florida--Gives account to his Majesty of hostilities in the Provinces--Two Fleets, French and English, going and coming from Havana--Seize Fort Matanzas and, after plundering, burn it to the ground--Is now being rebuilt--Great depredations committed up and down the coast by the enemy--Pushing the work on the Castle--Grieved over its slow progress, owing to lack of workmen--Begs to be allowed to retire because of age and long service--To Charles II, our principal Casique, the King--From the people of the territory of Habalache--The King to the Governor and Captain-General of Florida--Concerning ten negroes from St. George, who asked for the water of baptism--A Sergeant-Major from St. George comes to claim them--Because they have become Christians the Spanish King decides to buy them--After receiving a receipt they are to be set at liberty, each one given a document to that effect--The King reprimands Don Diego Quiroga for not attending to these matters--Orders a full account to be sent as soon as it is accomplished.

Letter of the Governor and Captain-General of Florida, Don Diego Quiroga y Losada, to his Majesty--Giving an account of a custom obtaining in the Garrison which endangers the safety of the people--When the Host is taken out in the night to administer communion to the dying the bells are rung until its return which is often hours, thus preventing the hearing the firing of the sentries across the river who are instructed to fire as often as there are numbers of vessels sighted--This danger fully laid before the Priest, who refused to discontinue the ringing of the bells, notwithstanding the city has been in arms awaiting the enemy for some days--In a Cedula by his Majesty of July 18th, 1674, he asks for a statement concerning the order and place of the Holy Tribunal of the Inquisition--These questions answered by Severino Mausaneda March 17th, 1690--An account of a military review in St. Augustine by Governor Don Diego Quiroga y Losada--Also recounts the great advantage to the City by building a sea wall to extend from the Fort the entire length of the City thus securing it against the sea which at present comes up to the houses during a storm--The soldiers and citizens subscribe ten thousand dollars, and the King is petitioned for aid that the citizens seeing his Majesty's interest will be encouraged to proceed--The King rebukes Governor Don Diego Quiroga y Losada of the city of St. Augustine for unjustly taxing the Indians--Misappropriating funds sent by agreement for canvas and provisions for them--Not attending to their wants and comfort and treating them alone as vassals--Extracts from the investigations of the Council as to alleged excesses committed by the Governor Don Francisco Moral Sanchez--His ill treatment of a Captain of Grenadiers--Acting according to his own will and not to military law--The Governor's removal desired--A report according to the King's command concerning affairs under Governor Don Francisco Morales Sanchez--Investigation shows that the facts set forth in the different papers and petitions sent to his Majesty to have been only too true--Impossible to put upon paper the strange, divers and extraordinary excesses committed by this Governor--The abuses sufficient to chill the soul and congeal the blood.

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