A.D. 

 1590. 



Prime scales 

 to borrozv 

 money sent 

 into Peru. 



Abundance of 

 money to come 

 from Lima 

 and from The 

 Valles. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



countrey. Although the king hath sent hither his 

 scedule or bill of assignement signed and sealed by his 

 majestie, which hath bene proclaimed here : The contents 

 whereof are, That what man soever marchant or other 

 will send their money into Spaine in that fleete, his 

 majestie will not take away any part or portion thereof, 

 (which in so doing will bee a great comfort unto us all) 

 yet here we were in doubt that hee would take it from 

 us all. Newes from the citie of Lima as yet we 

 have none : But I can certifie your worshippe, that all 

 things are very deere here, and that we stand in great 

 extremitie for want of victuals ; and likewise we have 

 great want of money. Also here is order come from 

 the king with certaine privie seales for to lend his 

 majestie money, for that hee hath great neede thereof. 

 This countrey at this instant is very poore, and there 

 are none that can lend the king at this time any money 

 at all, by reason that this lande is left so unprovided 

 of money : But wee are looking for great store of money, 

 which is to come from Lima and from the Valles. 

 From Panama the 12. of August 1590. 



Steven de Tresio. 



A letter of the Licentiate John de Labera to the 

 Licentiate Alonso Sapata de Henao in Castile 

 in Calamea de la Sorengo, v^ritten from S. Fee 

 de Bogota in the new kingdom of Granada, the 

 10. of May 1590. touching the rich silver 

 mines of Marequita newly found out, and the 

 long way thither by the river of Magdalena. 



Ith other letters which I dispatched from hence 

 in August 1589. I wrote unto your worship by 

 2. or 3. wayes : but I know not whether you 



have received them or no. Presently after I departed 

 to the government of Popayan, which joineth with 

 the citie of Quito in the coast of Peru, in companie 

 of the governors lieutenant Don Diego Ordonez de 



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