SPANISH LETTERS INTERCEPTED 



A.D. 

 1590. 



Portugall : and the ships go and come againe in short 

 time. If his majestie will consent that we may have 

 traffique from Spaine to this harbour, it will be very- 

 profitable : and in five or sixe moneths I shall heare 

 from yoUj & you shall doe the like from me. And 

 by the way of Cartagena it is sometime 2. yeres before The tedious- 

 we can receive your letters from Spaine. By this way ^^^^^^/^^ 

 my brother may write, and so by this meane the letters ^^ ^ p^^^^' 

 may speedily come to my hand. And thus I rest. 

 From this citie of Potossi the 20. of July 1590. 



The Licenciate Christopher Uslano. 



A letter of Steven de Tresio to Alonso Martines 

 Vaca in Sivil from Panama the 21. of August 

 1590. touching the kings desire to borrow 

 money upon privie seales, and the want of 

 the countrey. 



T may please your worship to understand, 

 that I have received a packet of letters 

 from you, wherein you write unto me of 

 the great miseries and the calamities of 

 Spaine. And I promise you that these 

 countreys are in no lesse. For here is 

 great want of corne and other kind of 



provision : for here is almost none to be had for any 

 money, by reason that from Lima there is no shipping 

 come with maiz. Here wee have had newes from Spaine 

 of the great provision which is making ready for those 

 great wars which his majestie is in preparing, & of the 

 great sums of money that his majestie standeth in neede 

 of: So that it doth put us all that are dwellers here in such 

 a perplexitie and confusion, that we know not what we 

 shall doe. I pray God his majestie take not away our 

 money which wee have sent to Spaine in the fleete. For 

 here are marchants that have sent some 200000. pezos, 

 some 1 00000. pezos, some 60000. some more some 

 lesse, to have it imployed in commodities of that 



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