The Coronista mayor de las Indias — a salaried royal historian, with a natural-history brief and a censor

A state post whose job description was printed in the law code: write the general history of every province of the Indies from the papers sent to the Council, and compile the natural history of its plants, animals and minerals as well. The same four laws that command truth also give the Council a veto on printing, bind the historian to secrecy, and hold back the last third of his salary each year until he shows what he has written.