[fo.127v. ]

1504  /

Providing license/
to all the denizens /
of the Española Island and
to any /
other who may want to /
carry commodities, /
tools and other /
things, so they could /
freely do it . /

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                          license to carry provisions and commodities
                          and tools and other things /
                          to the Española island /                           

Don Fernando and doña Isabel, etcetera, since at the time /
that from these our kingdoms some settlers went to /
the Española island which is in the Indies of the ocean sea /
for some just causes we mandated that no /
persons carried commodities or provisions to /
the said Indies without our license and order, besides/
the ones we mandated to point out at the time that could /

[…]

[…]

to do good and favor to you the said denizens /
and dwellers of the said Española island, we hereby /
issue license to all the Christian denizens and dwellers /
of the said Española island that are now or will be hereafter /
who are not of those prohibited by us that /
may not be denizens in the said islands and to any /
persons of these our kingdoms of Castille for a term /
of the first ten subsequent years beginning from the first /
day of the month of January of this current year of the date of this /
our letter and for the term that may be our preference and volition /
that from here forward whenever it may be they may carry /
in vessels of our natives and no others to the said Española island/
all the eating and drinking provisions and garments and /
shoes and clothes and cattle and beasts of burden and mares /
and other animals and plants and seeds and tools /
and any other commodities and things that may be needed /
for sustenance and provisioning and business of the Christian denizens and /
dwellers of the said Española island provided that /
by virtue of this said license no one may carry /
nor take out of these kingdoms to the said Española /
island slaves nor guanines nor horses nor weapons /
nor gold nor silver in bars or crafted nor minted /
and that the persons who carry the above said pay us / 

[…]

 [fo. 128r.]

[…] and that such commodities /
and provisions, those who may carry them  nor the others who /
may buy them in the said Española island may not sell them /
nor trade over them with the Indians that are not Christians for /
the trading with them is left and must be for us and for /
whoever may have our special power to do it […] /
such persons paying us the duties that from it /
we should perceive in accordance to the said tariff as it was said /

 […]

 issued in the village of Medina del Campo on fifteen days of the month of /
February year of the birth of our lord Jesus Christ of one thousand and /
five hundred and four years, I the King, I the Queen, I Gaspar /
de Grizio, secretary of the King and the Queen our lords wrote it /
per their mandate, marked by Juan Lopes e Barga /