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A Florida friar asked for new bells and ornaments to replace his worn, 25-year-old set
Source: Situado and Sabana #82
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A generation later, the bold mendicant Gomez de Palma (1637?) wrote to ask for more: "It is now twenty-five years since Your Majesty made us a grant of some ornaments and bells, which in the course of time have become so worn out that [Mass] cannot be celebrated with decency. I beg of Your Majesty that we be given ornaments and some small bells of two or three quintales, and that when a doctrina is founded it may receive the necessary things of this kind" (1637?). Gomez de Palma's "small bells" weighed two and three hundred pounds. [Note: Brass bell fragments have been found archaeologically at San Damian de Escambe in Apalache and bronze ones at Santa Catalina de Guale. (Bushnell SS)
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