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SA's soldiers were in debt to a loan shark
Source: The King?s Coffer #83
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Merchant Antonio de Herrera once brought the royal officials a list of 182 men in his debt for clothing and small loans. Although Governor Salinas authorized payment via payroll deduction Herrera was exiled shortly afterward. A few years later he reappeared by special, unexplained permission from the Council, and the soldiers were soon in debt to him again. Salinas, pleading their poverty, paid him with surplus situado funds. Governor-elect Rojas y Borja, of a more accommodating temperament, before he ever left Spain advanced Herrera directly from ensign to sergeant major of the garrison—an unlikely promotion for which the loan shark must have paid handsomely. [Note 44: Antonio de Herrera to Gov. Salinas 12/14/1619, and Gov. Salinas to the royal officials 1/7/1620; Council re Antonio de Herrera 2/17/1623; Gov. Salinas 7/18/1623; Gov.-elect Rojas y Borja to Antonio de Herrera, Madrid 1/22/1624] (Bushnell KC)
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