Note 30 — Chapter VII · THE AUDIENCIA AND THE GOVERNOR: THE MILITARY JURISDICTION

Memorial of April 19, 1586, Blair and Robertson, VI, 197–233. The purpose of the proposed expedition was declared to be to “forestall the danger that the French and English, and other heretics and northern nations, will discover and navigate that strait which certainly lies opposite those regions—that of Labrador.” A note suggests that this probably referred to the St. Lawrence River. Delgado says that Governor Sande called this council together on April 9, 1586, evidently meaning Santiago de Vera, as the latter became governor in 1584, and Sande left the Islands in 1580. De Vera’s signature is affixed to this petition. Other letters of special importance, from the audiencia or individual oidores to the court, entirely or in part on military affairs, written during this period, may be noted in Blair and Robertson, VI, 56–65, 157–233, 254–264, 265–274, 311–321, XVII, 251–280, and throughout this series from Volumes VI to XXXV (1584–1650) especially. The general subject is covered in A. I., 67–6–6 to 26.