A doctrinero received a number of nonfood items along with his rations, charged, like the food, to his stipend. Gomez de Palma listed the items as paper, writing quills, thread, needles, woven tape, 2 mantas, or mantles, 4 congas, or blankets, and an unspecified number of plates and rimless bowls. These things were authorized by cedula, either in 1641 or in 1663 (Gomez de Palma, 1637?). Another cedula in 1706 specified that each missionary was entitled to 2 frezadas, or blankets with a center seam, 4 mantas congas, 6 earthenware plates, 4 rimless bowls, a paper of pins, 50 writing quills, and a pound and a half of hemp string (Montiano, 1738a). The 1735 list mentions pewter plates, congas, media frezadas, or half blankets, and boxed soap (Franciscans, 1735). (Bushnell SS)