1. Joyce Lormier, English and Irish settlement on the River Amazon, 1550–1646, Haklyut Society, 2nd ser., 171 (London, 1989).
2. León G. Campbell, ‘Foreigners in Peruvian society during the eighteenth century’ in Revista de Historia de América, 73/74 (1972), pp. 153–63.
3. Elenora Poggio, ‘La migracion de Europeos sepetentrionales a la Nueva España a través de los documentos inquisitoriales a finales del siglo xvi y principios de siglo xviii’ in Fernando Navarro Antolín (ed.), Orbis incognitus: avisos y legajos del Nuevo Mundo (2 vols, Madrid, 2007), ii, pp. 469–77. She cites the cases of John Murphy (1674) and Denis Collins (1694).
4. See also David Beers Quinn, Ireland and America: their early associations, 1500–1640 (Liverpool, 1991).
5. It is only for the last quarter of the seventeenth century that official evidence exists of Irish exemption from the composición. See Elenora Poggio, ‘Las composiciones de extranjeros en la Nueva España 1595–1700’ in Cuadernos de Historia Moderna, 10 (2007), pp. 177–93, at p. 188.