Herrera, Historia general de los hechos de los Castellanos, Década Octava

The eighth and last Decade of the official history of the Indies, and the volume in which its author explains how such a history was made. Its dedication records that the king and the Council of the Indies ordered him to continue, that the Council attached one of its own members to the work as its Comissario, and that when critics attacked the geographical tables the Council convened a board of cosmographers to examine them.