Note 1 — Letter from Archbishop Miguel Garcia Serrano to the King

Serrano apparently overlooks the diocesan council convened in 1600 by Bishop Agurto at Cibú (see Vol. XIII, pp. 133–135). Addis and Arnold’s Catholic Dictionary says (p. 46): “Provincial councils, owing to the difficulties of the times, have been [77n] less frequent in recent times than formerly; but, by the Council of Trent, metropolitans are bound to convene them, every three years.”