University:
Arizona State University
Course:
HST 200 | Historical Themes
Academic year:

2024
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484

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2
Author:

Thuyoul US

LETTER OF NATURE TO TRADE WITH THE INDIES GRANTED TO NICOLÁS MARTINEZ DE ESCOBAR (1631) Phelipe Tercero Don Phelipe. While you, Nicolas Martinez de Escobar, a resident of the Canary Islands and a native of Ypre in the Flanders region, have provided me with a list of the two states' eleven-year-old students, roughly, as well as the twenty-six students who attend this city and remain there while married to both the city's native woman and Roberto Martinez Sion, our father He served as Ynfanteria's captain during Colonel Monsdragon's third term, and he and his company participated in the seizure of the Rebel States' island of Sorsea, which is located in Geland, as well as the siege of Menalbargo and other conflicts during that period. He also remained a devoted vassal in the service of my monarchy with the consent of his superiors, in whose consideration / would have liked to give you more. A natural charter for the kings of Castile and Yslas in the Canary Islands, with the intention of granting you positions as council members and public officials. Additionally, if I grant you permission, you will be able to engage in business and contract in the Indies, selling goods to these kingdoms and Indians as their natives do. To enjoy the honors and privileges enjoyed by the natives of these kings, supplying you with any requirements that you may lack in accordance with the laws and orders that are given on this subject, and having been approved by those of my Council of the Indies, I have had it as my own and I hereby grant you and give license to you on the day of Nicolas Martinez de Escobar, so that, notwithstanding the fact that Be a stranger and not a native of these my kingdoms of Castile, as if you were, you can treat and contract in the days of my West Indies, Islands and mainland of the ocean sea, and of these kings and of them to the Indian Indians by your person and those of your agents and factors, and enjoy the honorable graces of the most frank, liberties, preeminences, prerogatives, and immunities which they enjoy, may and shall enjoy in the Indian lands those who are natives of these my kings of Castile, and have and serve as they and each one of them any offices of councillors and publics in which they have been elected, appointed and appointed, and they shall be given and entrusted to you in any manner [...] given in Madrid to beinte and nine of March of mill six hundred and thirty- one years 1, the King [...J". Leg. 1536 of General Archive of the Indies, Indifferent Section.