836 ROYAL «0CIP:TY OF CANADA 



(Ittlta coticcssa funint; nos volentcs etiam, prout diguum et convenieus exis- 

 tit, vos hœredesque et BuccesBores vestros prœdictos non minoribus gratils, 

 praerogatlvls, et favoribus prosequi, motu simili, non ad vestram vel alterius 

 pro vobls Buper hoc oblatae petitionem instantiam, sed de nostra mera 

 liberalitate ac eisdem scieuila et apostolicœ potestatis plenitudine, lohia ac 

 hutrnlitius et ninTr.s.siiribii.i nstri.s pracdiclis, ut in innuUs cl terris per vos scu 

 uominc icslru hactenus repertis hujusmudi el reperienilis in posteram omnibus et 

 timjulis yratiis, pririleijiis, exempt iuniljun, libertatibus, facultatibus, immunita- 

 tilnis, litteris et indultis reijilius J'urtui/atliae eoneessis hujunmodi, quorum omnium 

 ttnores ac si de rerlio ad rerbum praesentibus insercrentur huberi volumus pro 

 suflicicntcr cxprcssis et insertis, uti, potiri et gauderc libite et licite possitis et 

 Ufbeatis in omnibus et per omnia perinde ac si illa omnia vobis et hneredibus et 

 successoribus rcstris praefatis specialitcr conccssa fuissint, auctoritate apos- 

 tolica tenore praesentium de spctialis dono yratiac indulijcmus, illaque in omni- 

 bus et per omnia ad vos haeredesque ac succcssorcs vestros praedictos extcndimus 

 pariUr et ampliumus, ac eisdem modo et forma perpetuo concedimus, non 

 obstantibus constitutionibus et ordinationibus apostolicis, uec non omnibus 

 illis quœ in litteris Portugalliaî legibus coucessis hujusmodi concessa sunt, 

 non obstantibus ceterisque contrariis quibuscumque. Verum, quia dilRcile 

 foret prae^entes litteras ad singula qua?que loca in quibus expediens fuerît 

 defferri, volumus, ac motu et scient:a sirailibus decernimus, quod illarum 

 transuraptis, manu publie! notarii indo rogati subscriptis et sigillo aiicujus 

 personœ in ecclesiastica diguitate constitutœ, seu curite ecclesiasticœ, muni- 

 tis, ea prorsus lides indubia in juditio et extra ac, alias ubilibet adhibeatur, 

 quœ piœitntibus adhiberetur, si essent exhibitœ vel ostensœ. Nulli ergo 

 omninu nominum liceat liane pagiuam nostrae exhortationis, requisitionis, 

 doiiatiunis, assignatiouis, iiivestiiuriK, facti, constitulionis, deputalionis, 

 maudati, inhibitionis, nostrorum indulti, extensionis, ampliationis, conces- 

 sionis, voluntatis et decreti infringere, vel ei ausu temerario contraire. Si 

 Quis autem hoc attentare pre^umpserit, indignaiionem omnipoientis Dei ac 

 beatorum Petri et Pauli apjstalorum ejus se noverlt incursurum. Datum» 

 RomaB, apud saucium Petrum, anuo incarnationis domiuicœ mii.esimo quad- 

 ringentesimo nonagesimo tertio, quiuto nonas maii, pontilicatus nostri 

 anno primo. 



TRANSLATION. 



Alexander, Bishop, Servant of the Servants of God; to the illustrious 

 Eovereigns, our very dear son in Christ, î'erdinand. King, and to our very 

 dear daughter in Christ, Isabella, Queen, of Castile, Leon, Aragon and Gran- 

 ada. Health and apostolic benediction. 



The sincerity of distinguished devotion and the soundness of faith, by 

 which you reverence us and the Roman Church, justly deserve that we should 

 approvingly grant you those things which may enable to follow up your holy 

 and praiseworthy purpose, and the enterprise undertaken for seeking out re- 

 mote and unknown lands and islands, day by day tending more to the glory 

 of Almighty God, the propagation of the kingdom of Christ, and the exalta- 

 tion of the Catholic faith. 



Now, therefore, we, of our own motion from certain knowledge and out 

 of the fulness of apostolic power, have given, conceded and assigned unto you, 

 and your heirs and successors, the Kings of Castile and Leon, in perpetuity, 

 all and singular the remote and unknown mainlands and islands, situated 

 towards the regions of the West and the main ocean, which are not under 

 the actual temporal dominion of some Christian master, discovered and to 

 be hereafter discovered, by you or your emissaries sent for that purpose, not 

 without great labour, danger and expense; together with all their lordships, 

 cities, fortresses, places, farms, rights and Jurisdictions, as is set forth mqre 

 fully in our letters drawn up for that purpose. 



And since, at other times, divers privileges, favours, liberties, immuni- 

 ties, exemptions, faculties, letters and induits were conceded, by the apos- 

 tolic See, to several Kings of Portugal, who, in the regions of Africa, Guinea 



