The Governors and the Franciscans contains the only, at least, up to the moment {there must be something beyond narrative and primary documents} chronological record ["The history of the province from the fall of Acoma on December 4, 1598, to the great revolt of 1680, can never be made complete, for lack of data." ---George Bancroft, Bancroft Public Library, Berkeley, California."]

["An accurate account of the building of Santa Fe and annals from founding of Villa down to the Peublo Revolt of 1680 will probably never be written."] --Ralph Twitchell Santa Fe, New Mexico} of the explicit as well as implicit; un-real as well as real; subjective as well as objective; and ideal as well as representative history of New Mexico; and as such paralells the juirisdiction of the three principal Spaniish law decrees of the sixteenth century.