In the early 1620s and again in 1635 the bishop of Cuba inquired about his fourth of the Florida tithes. The crown, which was making up the difference in his income, referred his query to the Florida governor and royal officials, asking them whether their provinces were not suffragan to that bishop. They replied that don Juan de las Cabezas Altamirano had brought credentials as the bishop of Florida and Cuba when he made his visitation in 1605, but he had not asked for tithes, nor had any been sent to Cuba since. [Note 7: Gov. Horruytiner with Francisco Menendez Marquez and Nicolas Ponce de Leon 5/14/1636; Bishop of Cuba, Spain, 6/4/1622; Archbishop of Havana, Havana 11/25/1635; Santos de las Heras and Joseph de Prado 8/21/1653, with enclosures of 10/27/1626, after 1655, and 7/15/1656] Orders must have followed to send the bishop his fourth, for several years later the royal officials mentioned that tithes were no longer being administered as a royal revenue. [Note 8: Francisco Menendez Marquez and Pedro Benedit Horruytiner 5/17/1646] (Bushnell KC)