REGULATIONS FOR SPANISH SHIPS 



voyage come into the ship : as also of such plate and 

 money, as shalbe registred in the Kings Register, apper- 

 tayning to the King, or any other particuler marchant : 

 and if any default be, hee or his sureties are to pay all such 

 losses as thereof shall growe : as also to see the mariners 

 payed well and truely, the third part of all such fraights, 

 as the sayde shippe shall get going and comming. 



The ship being fraighted by her merchants, the Master 

 shall take order that there be sufficient mariners abourd 

 her to take in such lading from time to time, as the 

 marchant shall send to her: And also the Purser must be The Purser. 

 a man sufficient of abilitie to take, & to give account of 

 all such goods, marchandize, silver and golde, as shall 

 come in and out of the sayd shippe that present voyage, 

 as also give sureties of 1 500 dukats at the least to come 

 backe from the Indies in the said shippe, and not to tarrie 

 there, if hee live. 



The Master must provide a perfect mariner called a 

 Romager, to raunge, and bestow all marchandize in such A Romager. 

 place as is convenient : and that it be not put in place, 

 where it may perish for lack that it be not fast, sure, and 

 drie, according to the qualitie and forme of the sayd 

 marchandize. 



When it is all bestowed, and the shippe able to beare 

 no more, than a mariner called the Countermaster, or 

 Masters mate, hath charge to locke fast the hatches, that The Masters 

 none of the marchants wines, or oyles, or any other kind ^^^^• 

 of marchandize be robbed or spoyled by the mariners. 

 And if it fortune that any bee so spoyled, then the 

 mariners are to pay for it out of the third part of all the 

 whole fraight of the shippe that doth appertaine to the 

 sayd marchants. 



The shippe being laden, goeth to the port wherehence 

 she saileth to goe towards the Indies called S. Lucar, and 

 there one of the chiefe Judges of the Contractation house The ch'iefe 

 commeth downe to dispatch the shippes that goe together ^^^g^^ °f^^^ 

 in that fleete. And that Judge goeth abourd every ship, ^^^T^''^'''' 

 and with him hee doth carrie an expert mariner or two 



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