EXAMINATION OF SPANISH PILOTS ad. 



1586. 



instrumentos que no scan firmados por el piloto mayor 

 Alonzo dc Chiaves, y el cosmografo Cathedratico Roderigo 

 Zamorano : como son la carta, el astrolabio, la balestilla, 

 y el regimiento. 



Y mas, que yendo en la compannia dc la flota, obe- 

 descan al General, y no hagan mas de lo que el mandare, 

 so pena de la vida. 



The same in English. 



The examination of the Masters and Pilots which 

 saile in the Fleetes of Spaine to the West 

 Indies : Written in the Spanish tongue by 

 Pedro Dias a Spanish pilot taken by Sir 

 Richard Grinville 1585. 



First they make suit unto the Pilot major (who at this 

 present is called Alonzo de Chiavez) that he would admit 

 them to examination, because they are naturall Spaniards, 

 and sufficient for the same. 



Hereupon the Pilot major commandeth the party to ^i'he witnessr 

 be examined, to give information that he is a mariner, °f^^'^ ^^ "-"^^ 

 and well practized in those parts, about which hee desireth ^^ ^ ^' 

 to be examined. And then immediately he bringeth five 

 or sixe pilots before examined to give testimonie that he 

 is a good mariner, and sufficient to become a pilot, that 

 he is a Spaniard borne, and that he is not of the race of 

 the Moores, Jewes or Negros. 



Having made this information, hee presenteth it unto The pilots ad- 

 the Pilot major. And the Pilot major seeing the in- l'^fj"J^^^^^^ 

 formation to be good, willcth the Kings publique reader Kinps reader 

 of navigation (who is now Roderigo Zamorano) to admit 

 him to his lectures. Whither there doe resort foureteene 

 or iifteene persons that desire to be examined: and they They heare the 

 come to a certaine house which the kings reader hath ^^^"g^ readers 

 appointed unto him for the same purpose, at eight of the ^^^^^^^^ ^^^ 

 clocke in the morning: and then they stay two houres, y^;. ^^^^ ^ 

 and two houres likewise in the afternoone : in one o{ moneths. 



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