EXAMINATION OF SPANISH PILOTS ad. 



1586. 



The ships that goe to the Indies are wont eche of 

 them to have with them a Notarie, whose charge is to 

 keepe a note of remembrance of all the marchandize 

 which is laden in the ship, and to take the marks thereof, 

 therby to deliver the commodities in the ship to their 

 particular owners, after they have finished their voyage, 

 and he serveth likewise to make willes, and other instru- 

 ments, which are wont to be made by a Notarie, if any 

 man chanceth to fall sicke. And his wages in eche 

 voyage is as m.uch as the wages of two mariners. 



The Generall of the fleetes useth continually, after Thefirstbarke 

 hee is arrived in the Indies, to send into Spaine a barke "Z^^^*^^- 

 of Aviso, to advertise the king of the state of his arrivall ; 

 And after the fleetes be ready to come home, he dis- 

 patcheth another pinnesse of Aviso to certifie them how The second 

 the fleetes are now ready to set saile, with other par- ^^^'^/ ^f 

 ticularities. There go with the fleetes two great ships, 

 the one as Admirall, the other as Viceadmirall, of the 

 burthen of 400 or 500 tunnes, which carry nothing but 

 victuals and souldiers for the wafting of the rest of the 

 fleete, and these are payd out of the marchandize which 

 come in the fleete, after the rate of one in the hundred, 

 and sometime at one and an halfe in the hundred. 



There is in the Contractation house of Sivil a 

 table which serveth for an Aranzel, or table 

 of rate or taxation, v^ritten in letters of gold, 

 wherein the values' of all kind of marchandize, 

 which are embarqued for the Indies, are set 

 downe. 



Y this table a man may know how many Botijas ^ ^^^^^ °f 



or iarres make a tunne of wine, or how many ^■^^^^^*^- ^^^ 

 / 1 . 1 ' , J up in the Con- 



packes, or how many qumtals, or how many /ractation 



barrels, or how many chests make a tunne. house. 



And all marchandize have their rates set downe, to 

 pay the king his customes and the Master his due 

 fraight. 



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