1. Vicente de Amezaga Aresti, Hombres de la Compañía Guipuzcoana (Caracas, 1963), 24-31. [BACK]

2. Magnus Mörner, "Economic Factors and Stratification in Colonial Spanish America with Special Regard to Elites," Hispanic American Historical Review 63 (1983): 347. [BACK]

3. The most recent summary of this literature is Fred Bronner, "Urban Society in Colonial Spanish America: Research Trends," Latin American Research Review 21 (1986). See especially pages 35-39. [BACK]