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1576-1582]
APPOINTMENTS FOR CATHEDRAL
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is our pleasure. With the approval of our Council of the Indies, we favor this; and therefore order you that, whenever the said dignities, canonries, and other benefices of the cathedral church in those islands shall become vacant, you fill them with competent persons of the required rank, who shall serve in the place of those through whom the vacancy occurs, at the same stipend as that received by their predecessors, until we make our appointments.
I, the King
By order of his Majesty:
Antonio de Eraso
