Father Antonio de Florencia, a floridano, had already informed the Crown that it was not the custom for Florida friars to obtain the "collation," because the Florida doctrinas "were rigorous administrations, because all of the Catholic Indians with the exception of 300 persons perished in the rebellion that they had in years past when they flocked to the protection of the ingleses of Carolina," and "the pueblos that have started to be formed now were composed of indios infieles who were being converted to our holy faith" (Spanish Crown, 1725b). The Crown sent a precis of the Florencia letter to the bishop of Cuba, who dismissed it with the comment that the Franciscans of Florida had persistently opposed episcopal authority and the exercise of the real patronato (Spanish Crown, 1725a). (Bushnell SS)