Note V-9 — Chapter V · ADMINISTRATION OF THE INDIES. 1492-1526.

Oviedo, i. 103, says that when the Jeronimite friars arrived a few days before Christmas, 1516, the jueces de apelacion 'ya se llamaban oydores, é su auditorio ya se deçia audiençia Real.' Herrera, ii. ii. iv., treating of the instructions given the Jeronimites remarks, that it was ordered also that the jueces de apelacion should be submitted to residencia. After that he writes jueces de apelacion, and audiencia indifferently. Las Casas, Hist. Ind., v. 45, treating of events in 1518-20, says 'jueces de apelacion;' relating the occurrences of 1521, 165, 177, he writes 'audiencia,' and 'cuatro oidores.' Writing the king August 30, 1520, Pacheco and Cárdenas, Col. Doc., xiii. 332-48, the court styles itself Real Audiencia, the members signing the communication. In Pacheco and Cárdenas, Col. Doc., xiv. 568, the presidents of this audiencia are given as Luis de Figueroa, 1523; Sebastian Ramirez in 1527; Fuente Mayor in 1533; Maldonado in 1552; Alonso Arias de Herrera in 1560; and in 1566 Diego de Vera, who was sent to Panamá as president when he was succeeded by Doctor Mejía.