lucatan. 



JOHN CHILTON a.d. 



1572. 



wood called campeche, (wherewith they use to die) as also 

 hides and annile. By this there lieth the province of 

 lucatan, nere the Honduras by the North sea coast, where 

 there is also another bishop, and a towne likewise named 

 lucatan, where there dwell a few Spanyards. They have 

 no force at all in all this coast to defend themselves with- 

 all, save only that the land is low, and there is no port to 

 receive any shipping, unlesse they be frigats, which cary 

 from thence to the port of S. John de Ullua, waxe, cacao, 

 hony, and also mantles of cotton wool, whereof they 

 make there great store, and of which kind of merchandize 

 there is great trade thence to Mexico : of the same also 

 they pay their tribute to the king. 



The king hath tribute brought him yerely out of the ^^'fT'^'^t 

 Indies into Spaine betweene nine and ten millions of gold ^^^^//rfto 

 and silver : for he receiveth of every Indian which is sub- out of the West 

 ject unto him (excepting those which do belong to the Indies. 

 Incommenderos, which are the children of those Span- 

 yards, who first conquered the land, to whom the king 

 gave and granted the government of the cities and townes 

 subdued for three lives) twelve reals of plate, and a 

 hannege of maiz, which is a wheat of the countrey, (five 

 of them making a quarter of English measure) and of 

 every widow woman he hath sixe reals, & halfe a hannege 

 of maiz. And so if any Indian have twenty children in 

 his house, he payeth for every one of them, being above 

 fifteene yeres old, after that rate. This Wheat being 

 duely brought to the governour of every province and 

 city, is sold in Mexico by the kings governours there 

 every yeere ; so that the money received for it, is put into 

 the icings Treasurie there, and so is yeerely caried from 

 thence into Spaine. Of the Spanyards which are owners 

 of the mines of gold and silver, he receiveth the fift part 

 of it, which he calleth his quintas, which being taken out The quinto, 

 of the heape, there is his armes set on it ; for otherwise it 

 may not be brought out of the land into Spaine, under 

 paine of death. The marke of silver, which is eight 

 ounces, when it commeth out of the mines, not having 



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