Note XXVII‑30 — Chapter XXVII · PANAMÁ, PORTOBELLO, AND PIRACY. 1601-1670.

While still a friar, Carabajal went to Spain and became prior of the royal convent of Valladolid, and during his attendance at court he was chosen assistant-general of all the provinces of Spain and the Indies, and reformador of the provinces of Bolonia and Romania by authority of Pope Clement VIII. Dicc. Univ., Hist. Geog., viii. 522. According to this authority he was a native of the city of Mexico, but Dávila, in Teatro Ecles., ii. 59, says he was a native of Cáceres in Estremadura.