SPANISH LETTERS INTERCEPTED ad. 



1590. 



command with all expedition that these souldiers and 

 mariners with all kinde of other furniture might be sent 

 us, then the fleete may set forward and so proceede on 

 their voyage. God preserve your Catholike royal 

 majestie. From Havana the 20 of October 1590. 



Your majesties servant, whose royall feet I kisse. 

 John de Orimo General of your Fleete. 



A Letter sent from the Governour of Havana John 

 de Trexeda, to the King of Spaine, the twen- 

 tieth of October 1590, touching the w^ants of 

 that place. 



Y three shippes which departed from this 

 Harbour since the Fleetes arrivall here, I 

 have given your majestie at large to 

 understand, what hath happened as much 

 as I can, and what thing is here to be 

 done in this citie, and what your majestie 

 must provide. And now once againe I 

 will returne to put your majestie in minde thereof. I 

 beseech your majestie to command to be provided and to v^f ^'^^.^ . 

 be sent hither two hundred Negros, if you will have this "^^^^^ 

 fortification to goe forwardes : because your majestie is 

 here at great charges with the master workeman and the 

 Officers. And for want of Pioners the worke s^oeth not 

 forwardes. For as the worke goeth dayly forward and 

 increaseth farther and farther, so we want men to worke, 

 and to garde it, and likewise to keep it. We dare not 

 meddle with those of the Galies. And likewise it may 

 please your majestie to send new working tooles of yron, 

 according to a remembrance which I have sent to your 

 majestie of late, which doeth signifie our wants more at 

 large. 



Likewise it is needeful that your majestie should send 

 powder and match to furnish these forts. And likewise Souldiers sent 

 to send money to pay those souldiers which are newly ^° tiavana. 

 come hither, & for that companie of souldiers which were 



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