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... thousand ducats , from which amount the Englishman deducted three thousand . To raise this sum two hundred bars of silver were borrowed from His Majesty , which silver Gero- nimo de Hojeda , master , had turned over when his ship came ...
... thousand ducats , from which amount the Englishman deducted three thousand . To raise this sum two hundred bars of silver were borrowed from His Majesty , which silver Gero- nimo de Hojeda , master , had turned over when his ship came ...
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... thousand five hundred pesos . Deponent frequently took his soldiers to the fort to train and exercise them , that they might be expert in what they were to do when the enemy should appear ; and he was so engaged in this because it was ...
... thousand five hundred pesos . Deponent frequently took his soldiers to the fort to train and exercise them , that they might be expert in what they were to do when the enemy should appear ; and he was so engaged in this because it was ...
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... thousand ducats for which the city was ransomed , certain persons ransomed their property for thirty thousand ducats , some paying more , others less ; and some estimate it at about twenty thousand ... they have heard that the enemy ...
... thousand ducats for which the city was ransomed , certain persons ransomed their property for thirty thousand ducats , some paying more , others less ; and some estimate it at about twenty thousand ... they have heard that the enemy ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | xvii |
April 6 1585 | 8 |
Licentiate Aliaga to the Crown Xagua January 13 1586 | 16 |
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