(Worth SGC) DOCUMENT 12: ROYAL CEDULA TO GOVERNOR QUIROGA Y LOSADA, 1689 INTRODUCTION The following royal cedula represents a second request by the Spanish Crown to the governor of Florida for information regarding the Island of Santa Catalina and the province of Guale, complaining that the first request (made in a cedula dated November 10, 1681) had never been fulfilled. Interestingly, the earlier order had indeed been complied with in June 1683 by Governor Don Juan Marquez Cabrera (1683) who dispatched a detailed map (still extant) of all of Spanish Florida drafted by Alonso Solana (Bushnell, 1994; and see the Overview). Whether or not this map had been misplaced by 1689 is unclear, but at that time the need for this material in the King's Junta de Guerra prompted the dispatch of the following cedula to the new governor of Florida. As noted within the cedula below, a similar request was dispatched on the same day to the bishop of Cuba. Although nothing is currently known regarding Governor Quiroga y Losada's compliance with his cedula, through a long series of delays the requested ecclesiastical report was finally made in the early 1690s by the secular priest of St. Augustine, Alonso de Leturiondo (1701; and see discussion by Hann, 1986b:165-167 and Bushnell, 1994). This report has yet to be found, but Leturiondo's later memorial summarized some of the information contained in the earlier report (Leturiondo, 1701). Year of 1689, Number 12(1) NOTE 1. Castilla made this note on the upper margin of the original cadula. The King... To the governor of Florida, ordering him to make immediately the report which was requested by cedula of November 10, 1681, about the settling of the Island of Santa Cathalina, because it is greatly needed. Corrected [paraph] Official [f.2] I made a copy of this royal cedula which remains placed in the archive of government under my charge. Florida, August 6, 1739. Castilla(4) NOTE 4. Here the 18th-century notary Francisco de Castilla placed his certification of having made a copy of this original cddula. Duplicated from number 75 of the third legajo.(5) NOTE 5. This filing note was placed vertically on the outside of the last folio of the cedula and refers to the specific filing location of the document.