3 A subsequent volume in this series will examine this question.
4 The “king’s girls” were collected from orphanages, alms-houses and various other places, and sent by the shipload to Quebec. More than 1,000 arrived in the eight years from 1665 to 1673.
5 Francis Parkman turned up the manuscript sources and reported them in The Old Regime in Canada (Cambridge, 1974), 418.
6 The leading works are still those of José Toribio Medina, Historia del tribunal del Santo oficio … (6 vols., Santiago, 1887-1905), and Henry C. Lea, The Inquisition in the Spanish Dependencies … (New York, 1908); see also Cecil Roth, The Spanish Inquisition (1937, London, 1964), 208-26; Richard E. Greenleaf, Zumárraga and the Mexican Inquisition, 1536-1543 (Washington, 1961).