Note 33 — EARLY FRANCISCAN MISSIONS
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A somewhat hasty and vague statement of the case as given by Gonzalez in Aduarte’s Historia (ed. 1640), p. 404. What Concepción means to say is, that Aduarte renounced the rights conferred upon him by the briefs and decrees, enabling him to compel the missionary friars to submit to diocesan visitation and examination—doing so on the ground that such supervision would be injurious to the Indians in their charge. See our Vol. XXXII, p. 283.