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antado of the Indies, and this is to continue until he shall have ac- 

 quired an income of a million maravedis* for his support, and 

 for the services he has rendered and will continue to render to this 

 entailed estate; which million he is to receive as stated, every year, 

 if the said fourth amount to so much, and that he have nothing else ; 

 but if he possess a part or the whole of that amount in rents, that 

 henceforth he shall not enjoy the said million, nor any part of it, ex- 

 cept that he shall have in the fourth year part unto the said quantity 

 of a million, if it should amount to so much; and as much as he shall 

 have a revenue besides this fourth part, whatever sum of maravedis 

 of known rent from property or perpetual offices, the said quantity 

 of rent or revenue from property or offices shall be discontinued ; and 

 from said million shall be reserved whatever marriage portion he 

 may receive with any female he may acquire or may have over and 

 above his wife's dowry; and when it shall please God that he or his 

 heirs and descendants shall derive from their property and offices 

 a revenue of a million arising from rents, neither he nor his heirs 

 shall enjoy any longer anything from the said fourth part of the en- 

 tailed estate which shall remain with Don Diego, or whoever may 

 inherit. 



Item. From the revenues of the said estate, or from any fourth 

 part of it (should its amount be adequate to it), shall be paid every 

 year to my son Ferdinand two millions, till such time as his revenue 

 shall amount to two millions, in the same form and manner as in the 

 case of Bartholomew, who, as well as his heirs, are to have the mil- 

 lion or the part that may be wanting. 



Item. The said Don Diego or Don Bartholomew shall make 

 out of the said estate, for my brother Diego, such provision as may 

 enable him to live decently, as he is my brother, to whom I assign 

 no particular sum, as he has attached himself to the church, and that 

 will be given him which is right ; and this is to be given him in a 

 mass, and before anything shall have been received by Ferdinand, 

 my son, or Bartholomew, my brother, or their heirs ; and also ac- 

 cording to the amount of the income of the estate. And in case of 

 discord, the case is to be referred to two of our relations, or other 

 men of honor ; and should they disagree among themselves, they will 

 choose a third person as arbitrator, being virtuous and not distrusted 

 by either party. 



Item. All this revenue which I bequeath to Bartholomew, to 

 Ferdinand, and to Diego, shall be delivered to and received by them 

 as prescribed under the obligation of being faithful and loyal to 

 Diego, my son, or his heirs, they as well as their children ; and should 

 it appear that they, or any of them, had proceeded against him in 

 anything touching his honor, or the prosperity of the family or of the 

 estate either in word or deed, whereby might come a scandal and de- 

 basement to my family, and a detriment to my estate in that case, 

 nothing further shall be given to them or his from that time forward, 

 inasmuch as they are always to be faithful to Diego and his successors. 



Item. As it was my intention, when I first instituted this en- 

 tailed estate, to dispose, or that my son Diego should dispose for me, 



*Approxiuiately thirty-five hundred dollars. 



