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Item: Six handkerchiefs of Rouen linen and eight pairs of linen 
breeches with their socks. 
Item: Six pairs of trimmed Rouen linen breeches. 
Item: Eight pairs Cordovan leather boots, six white pairs and four 
black, and four pairs of laced gaiters. 
Item: Fourteen pairs of Cordovan leather shoes, white and black, and 
four pairs of boots of sole leather and buckskin. 
Item: Two hats, one black, trimmed around the crown with a silver 
cord, with black, purple, and white feathers, and the other gray, with yel¬ 
low and purple feathers. 
Item: Another hat of purple taffeta with blue, purple, and yellow feath¬ 
ers, and trimmed with a band of gold and silver passementerie. 
Item: Four pairs of spurs for long stirrups, two for short stirrups, and 
some Moorish spurs with tassels and cords of silk. 
Item: Fifty yards of striped canvas of Michoacan bindweed for a tent, 
with all the appurtenances necessary for setting it up with forked stakes, 
and everything else belonging to it. 
The said goods having been thus declared, Captain Don Luís de Velasco 
begged his lordship to declare them manifested. Besides the aforesaid— 
as his lordship is aware, and, as is well known—some of his officers and 
soldiers are in debt to him for a large quantity of goods which they carried 
off when they absconded because of the delay in the expedition. With 
all this he came to serve his Majesty, and he will also give a report 
separately, presenting a petition that it be received. With this declaration 
he said that at present he has nothing more to manifest. 
It having been examined by the señor governor, he declared that the 
said goods had been manifested and certified; that he had seen them; and 
that it is known to him that he [Captain Velasco] is taking all of them 
and that they are his, and that he manifested them in the City of Mexico, 
where he raised the standard. And he ordered that a certified copy be 
given him, attached to this manifest, of the requisition which his lordship 
made upon Francisco de Esquivel, commissary of this expedition, to the 
effect that he should set down all of the goods which those were taking 
who were going to serve his Majesty on the expedition. It was so ordered 
and signed by Don Juan de Oñate and passed before me, Juan Pérez de 
Donis, clerk. 
As the above is evidenced and made apparent by the list in our original 
copy which is with the papers of the expedition and the petition of Captain 
Don Luis de Velasco, by order of the señor governor I issued, on four 
sheets of paper, the present certified copy at the spring of Santo Domingo, 
where is lodged a part of the army of his Majesty, on July 10, 1597. Don 
Juan de Oñate. And I, Juan Pérez de Donis, royal clerk and secre¬ 
tary of the expedition to New Mexico, was present and here made my 
signature in testimony of the truth, etc. 
Being at the spring of Santo Domingo in Nueva Vizcaya, on the eighth 
day of June, 1597, before Señor Don Juan de Oñate, governor and captain- 
general of New Mexico and its kingdoms and provinces for the king, our 
Lord. . . . 
