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



your behalf, but out of our sheer liberality, with like cognizance 

 and fullness of apostolic power, by apostolic authority and by 

 gift of special favor, do hereby grant you and your heirs and 

 successors aforesaid the free and legitimate exercise, possession 

 and enjoyment in the islands and countries thus far discovered 

 or that shall hereafter be discovered by yourselves or in your 

 name of all the favors, liberties, privileges, exemptions, faculties, 

 immunities, briefs and indults which have been accorded to the 

 kings of Portugal. We desire that the tenors of all the aforesaid 

 concessions be considered as inserted, word for word, in the 

 present letter, and as sufficiently inserted and expressed to 

 signify that the said favors are specially granted to you and 

 your heirs and successors aforesaid. In like manner and form 

 we give in perpetuity all the above to you and your heirs and 

 successors aforesaid, apostolic decrees and ordinances and all of 

 a similar nature that is contained in letters to the kings of 

 Portugal to the contrar}^ notwithstanding, etc. 



Given in Rome, at Saint Peter's, May 3, 1493, in the first year 

 of our pontificate. 



10. 



995. Bull of the Pope Alexander VI, dated May 12, 1493, 

 establishing the line of demarcatian between the dominions of 

 Spain and Portugal. 



(Translation.) 



Alexander, etc, to his most dear son and daughter in Christ, the 

 illustrious Ferdinand and Isabella, King and Queen of Castile, 

 and Leon, Aragon, Sicily, and Granada, health, etc : 

 Among those works which are pleasing to the divine majesty 

 and dear to our heart none is so important as that of the exalta- 

 tion and diffusion of the Christian religion and Catholic faith, 

 more especially during our times, the salvation of souls, and the 

 repression and conversion of barbarous nations. Wherefore, 

 when b}'- favor of God's clemency and despite our own inade- 

 quate merits, we were elevated to this holy see of Peter, know- 

 ing that you, like true Catholic kings and princes, as we have 

 ever known you to be and as your m'ost famous achievements 

 now prove, not only ardently desired the same end, but strove 

 to attain it with all zeal and diligence, allowing yourselves to 



