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Leturiondo wrote a long memorial about all things St. Augustine
Source: Situado and Sabana #82
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The parish priest who did not grace the Franciscan function was still the bachiller Alonso de Leturiondo, who after his quarrel with Governor Torres had gone to Spain on parish business. While there, Leturiondo wrote his long and informative "Memorial to the King of Spain" (Leturiondo 1700). In it he dealt with a variety of subjects: the Castillo and the state of the garrison, the looming threat posed by San Jorge (Charles Town), the inflated prices of local hogs and imported drygoods, the situado and the elaborate frauds of situadores, the appropriate way to tithe maize and cattle, the wages and medical care of soldiers, the presidio's dispatch vessels, the production of naval stores, the need to resettle the island of Santa Catalina, and finally, a long section of ethnographic and botanical miscellany, including detailed directions for digging and processing edible roots. In a frontier parish, a priest learned a little of everything. AN261 (Bushnell SS)
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