For All Which Things, And Any Other Due Or
Belonging To The Said Offices Of Our Admiral, Viceroy, And Governor, We
Give You Sufficient Authority In All Incidents, Dependencies, And
Emergencies, That May Occur.
Concerning all which, if you shall so desire,
we command our chancellor, notaries, and others, our officers belonging to
Our seals, that they give, pass, dispatch, and seal for you, our letters
of privilege, in as strong, firm, and effective manner as you may require
of them and stand in need of, and that none of them do any thing to the
contrary, upon pain of our displeasure, and of thirty ducats to be paid
to our treasury by every one who may be guilty to the contrary hereof."
"And besides, we command him that shall shew them[1] this our letter to
summon them to appear before us in our court wheresoever we may happen to
be, within fifteen days, under the same penalty. Under which we also
command any public notary, who may be called for such purpose, that he
give to him who shall produce these letters to him a certificate, signed
under his hand, that we may know how our commands are obeyed[2].
"Given in our city of Barcelona, this 28th of May, in the
year of our Lord 1493."
"I the King. I the Queen."
"By their majesties order, Ferdinand Alvarez de Toledo,
secretary to the king and queen."
"Peter Gutierres, Chancellor: Without fees for seal or
entry."
"Delivered by Roderick Doctor."
"Entered, Alonzo Perez."
Orders having been issued to make all necessary preparations for the
establishment of a permanent colony in the new discovery, the admiral went
from Barcelona to Seville in June 1493, and so diligently solicited the
fitting out of the fleet which their Catholic majesties had directed to be
provided, that in a short time seventeen vessels of various sizes were got
ready, well stored with provisions and with all things deemed necessary
for the intended colonization.
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