you. It is my pleasure that you have and receive as yearly salary
for the said offices two thousand pesos of four hundred and fifty
maravedis each. I order the officials of my exchequer of the said
islands to give and pay you this salary from the day when you sail
from one of the two ports, Barrameda or Cadiz, on the way to assume
your duties in the said office. In the future your salary shall be
paid you, as long as you are in my service, at the times and terms
which were followed in the payment of the said licentiate Pedro de
Rojas. Your receipts, a sworn statement of the day of your sailing,
as aforesaid, and a copy of this my decree shall be entered in the
books of the officials. I order that the maravedis given and paid
for this reason be receipted and charged on account with no other
warrant whatsoever. Given at San Lorenço, on the eighteenth day of
August in the year one thousand five hundred and ninety-three.

_I The King_

I, Joan de Ybarra, secretary of our lord the king,
have written this at his command.

The licentiate _Hinojosa_
_Doctor Pedro Diaz de Tudanco_
The licentiate _Benito de Caltadano_
The licentiate _Bartolome de Toledo_

Registered: _Pedro de Ledesma_
For the chancellor: _Pedro de Ledesma_

This commission and royal decree was entered in the books of the
India House of Trade, of this city of Sevilla, on the eleventh of