ABSTRACT
In the year of our Lord 1625 it was my fortune to reside among the Dominicans in Jerez in Andalusia. The Pope’s Commissary for their Mission was Friar Matheo de la Villa, who having a commission for thirty and having gathered some twenty-four of them about Castile and Madrid, sent them by degrees well stored with money to Cadiz, to take up a convenient lodging for himself and the rest of his crew, till the time of the setting forth of the Indian fleet. This Commissary named one Friar Antonio Calvo to be his substitute, and to visit the cloisters of Andalusia lying in his way, namely, Cordova, Seville, St Lucar, and Jerez, to try if out of them he could make up his complete number of thirty, which was after fully completed.
