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Content Enable editor Use plain text Code entry TABLE 3.2 Florida Situado Payments from Spanish Treasuries, 1617-1652 In pesos of 8 reales (adapted from Sluiter, 1985) ...Using Sluiter's data, I have constructed tables for the two periods of 1571-1616 and 1617-1652 in which the payments released from Spanish treasuries toward the situado are grouped under the calendar year of disbursement. There are unavoidable deficiencies in the data. First, there is no way of knowing when or whether a payment was actually delivered, nor what deep discounts it suffered en route. Second, it is impossible to tell what part of the regular situado went to soldiers and what part to friars, nor to pinpoint when, exactly, the religious situado began. Third, the 1617 appearance of three supplementary funds (for Indians, religiosos, and mermas) may reflect nothing more meaningful than a change in accounting procedures. And fourth, Sluiter's data stop in 1652, before the important years of the building of the Castillo. Rearranged by year of disbursement, however, the situado payments reveal the significant irregularity of the payments, year by year. Garrison mutinies, Indian rebellions, and missionary absenteeism before 1652 may now be correlated with situado shortages and delays. Obviously, individual soldiers, friars, and chiefs could survive without the situado, but could the colony? Spanish sovereignty, Catholic religion, and cacique authority, all three, were built on the expectation of royal support. AN108 (Bushnell SS)

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