This is exclusive of the people who pay no tributes, that is, the chiefs.

There are, in all these one hundred and eighty-six encomiendas, the same number of monasteries and churches.

Some of them have two monasteries each as they are too large to be administered by two religious; ordinarily, to each one are assigned five hundred tributarios.

There are other encomiendas which have one monastery between two of them.

Averaging these, I suppose there are about three hundred and seventy-two priests, besides the laymen.