220 W. E. Curtis — Pre-Columbian, Vatican Documents. 



by you without your special permission and that of your afora- 

 said heirs and successors. And, inasmuch as certain kings of 

 Portugal also have, by an apostolic grant made to them, discov- 

 ered and acquired other islands in the countries of Africa, Guinea 

 and the Gold Coast, and have been accorded different privileges) 

 favors, liberties, immunities, exemptions and indults, we Avish 

 you to use, possess and enjoy all and every one of the same 

 favors, privileges, exemptions, liberties, faculties, immunties and 

 indults, all whose tenors we desire to be considered as though 

 inserted word for word in the present letter, and to be regarded 

 as sufficiently expressed and inserted in the same just as if the}'' 

 had been granted to you and your heirs and successors by the 

 same act, authority, knowledge and fullness of apostolic power 

 and by special gift of favor. We extend and give the same in 

 all respects to you, your heirs and successors aforesaid, notwith- 

 standing apostolic constitutions and orders, and all which has 

 been granted in the above letters, and all else whatsoever to the 

 contrary, trusting in Him from whom empires, governments 

 and all good things come that under His guidance of your 

 actions your labors and endeavors will soon reach a most happy 

 result, to the joy and glory of all Christendom, if you do but 

 continue in this holy and praiseworthy (resolve) enterprise- 

 Since, however, it would be difficult to send the present letter to 

 all those places in which it would be expedient to have it pub- 

 lished, we wish and by the same act and with like cognizance we 

 decree that the same be copied by public notary thereunto de- 

 puted and sealed by some ecclesiastical dignitary, and that the 

 same value be attended to the said coj)ies, whether in or wher- 

 ever else soever out of court, as attaches to the present original 

 should they be shown or exhibited. No one shall go counter to 

 our exhortation, requisition, donation grant, assignment, investi- 

 ture, act, constitution, deputation, order, inhibition, indult, ex- 

 emption, gift, will and decree, etc. Whosoever, etc. 



Given in Rome, at Saint Peter's, in the year, etc, 1493, third 

 of May, in the first year of our pontificate. 



Coll. A. DE Campania. 

 N, Casanova. 

 By order gratis. 

 B. Capocci. 



D. SORRANO, 



