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A royal cedula required Franciscan authorities to handle supply deliveries and not royal officals
Source: Situado and Sabana #82
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Their responsibility ended in any case when a 1641 cedula made clear that the Crown wished the religiosos' superior, and not the governor and royal officials, to accept delivery of the king's alms and distribute them to the friars (Menendez Marquez and Rocha, 1682?). No supply contracts for the Florida doctrinas have survived for the historian to put alongside the contracts for supplying the friars of New Mexico. Those called for 30-wagon caravans to leave Mexico City for the frontier once every three years carrying such things as barbers' lancets, tin-plated cruets, graters, basins, razors, snuffing scissors, grindstones, rosaries, wafer-boxes, copal incense, bassoons, books of chants, woolen stockings, butcher knives, saffron, stills, spurs, chisels, pewter plates, latches, pillows, thread, and a hundred other things to ease a lonely life on the edges of empire. The same items or similar ones would have been brought from New Spain to the Florida doctrinas. The sailing time to Florida may have been shorter than the wagon train time to New Mexico, but the trip was more frequently made and carried more risk. The cargo on its way to Florida had to survive a sea voyage, with its perils of storms and of pirates, who several times captured the laden Florida supply ship. After that, in a land as yet without cartroads, draft oxen, or pack animals, the goods had to be gotten out to the doctrinas. (Bushnell SS)
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