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perion which shall fue them, and of whom they fhall be fued, may have any other special judges whatsoever, as well by covenant or contract which they may have made, as by the pre-eminences or immunities which they may have, because that of the faid causes only the faid judge confervator may take cognizance, and no other judge or tribunal whatfoever, although it be for any excefs or notorious crimes, or in any other manner and form whatsoever; and the faid judge confervator for the prefent, fhall be Doctor Don Francifco de Vergara, judge of my court of Degrees of the city of Sevilla, during the time that he fhall act therein, and in his abfence, Doctor Don Francifco de Medrano, judge of the fame court, who for matters and law-fuits which fhall offer in the faid cities of Cadiz, Malaga, and San Lucar, may fubftitute his confervatorship in the perfon that fhall be propofed by the faid nation, that they may be laid before and remitted to him for the determination thereof; and of that which fhall be fo determined by him, they may appeal to my council, and not to any other tribunal: and because that my will is, that each one in his time may have jurifdiction and special commiffion to protect and defend you in all that is contained in this my letter, and that all of it may be obferved and accomplished in the form that it is offered to you; I have thought fit to give charge, as by these prefents I give them charge of the protection and defence thereof, and command them, that they fee this my letter, and the qualities, and conditions, and pre-eminences, and amplifications contained therein, and caufe all of it to be obferved and accomplished, in the form accordingly, and in the manner that is contained therein and declared, without confenting or allowing that in whole or in part they may put or do put any doubt or difficulty therein; and before the faid Don Francifco de Vergara, and in his absence before the faid Don Francifco de Medrano, and not before any other fpecial judge, the firft motion fhall pafs, and be followed in all caufes and law-fuits for what relates thereunto,

thereunto, and cause the fame to be executed, and a chastisement of the difobedient; for fuch is my will: and that the cognizance and determination of all that is contained in this fpecial letter, fhall concern them, and doth concern them, that they proceed against those that fhall be guilty, executing on them fuch penalties as the law requires, referving, as I do referve to my council, the appeals, which by their acts and fentences they fhall interpofe, and not for any other tribunal, without that any of the reft of my councils, tribunals, courts, or chanceries, or any other judges or justices of these my kingdoms and dominions, of whatsoever quality they be, may intermeddle or do intermeddle therein, neither in the practice nor exercise of the fpecial jurifdiction, which by this my cedula I grant them, be it by way of excess, appeal, or any other recourse whatsoever; to whom and to each of them I inhibit, and hold for inhibited their cognizance, and declare them for judges incompetent thereof, for the whole, and in each thing, and part thereof, granting them as full and complete power, and moft ample commiffion as in law is required, and is neceffary, with their incidences, dependencies, annexities, and connexities; and that after them, the faid English nation of the faid city of Sevilla may name in the faid commiffion one of the judges of the faid court, whom the faid nation fhall think fit; and I command the prefident, and those of my privy council, that prefenting before them his name in cafe the faid commiffion be vacant by promotion or vacation of the faid Don Francifco de Vergara, or Don Francifco de Medrano, or in any other manner, they fhall be difpatcht by him that fhall be named in the form accordingly, and as by this my letter is ordained: and for the better performance hereof for time to come, I grant them power, licence, and authority, that they may fubftitute and do fubftitute this commiflion for matters and law-fuits, which fhall offer in the faid cities of Cadiz, and Malaga, and San Lucar de Barrameda, in the person which by you

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fhall be proposed to them, that they may examine matters and bring them to conclufion, and remit them the law-fuits and caufes you fhall have, to determine them in the form they shall think fit and fee convenient for the fecurity of what is contained in this my letter; and I encharge the most Serene Prince Don Balthafar Carlos, my very dear and beloved fon, and command the infantes, prelates, dukes, marquiffes, counts, barons, knights, efquires, governors of caftles, fortreffes, and plains, and thofe of my council, prefident and judges of my courts, officers of my house, and court, and chancery, and all mayors, governors, deputy governors, juftices of the peace, and other whatfoever juftices and judges of my kingdoms and dominions, that they obferve to you and accomplish, and cause to be obferved and accomplished, this my letter and favour, which I do grant you, and against the tenor and form thereof, not to go nor act now, nor at any time, nor by any manner, perpetually, for ever, nor confent or allow that they be limited to you, or fufpended in whole or in part, all its contents whatsofoever, laws or orders of these my kingdoms and dominions, ordinances, ftile, use, and cuftom of the faid cities of Sevilla, Cadiz, Malaga, and San Lucar, and all others which they have or may have to the contrary notwithstanding, for as much as doth concern thefe prefents, accounting it to be here inferted and incorporated, as if it had been word for word: and of this my letter, Geronimo de Canencia, my chief treafurer and accountant, and my fecretary de la Media Anata, is to take cognizance, to whofe charge is committed the account of the faid duty; and I declare, that of this favour you have paid the duty of Media Anata, which imports thirty-and-five thousand one hundred fifty-and-five maravedis in filver, which you are to pay every fifteen years perpetually, and that being complied with, you fhall not have the power to ufe this favour without that it firft appears that you have fatisfied this duty, and alfo that you pay the judge confervator

confervator you shall name, the falary which he fhall enjoy by the faid occupation, which is to be manifefted by certificate from the office of this duty. Given in Zaragoza, the nineteenth day of March, in the year one thousand fix hundred forty-and-five.

I the KING.

I Anthony Carnero, secretary of the King our Lord, ordered this to be written by his command.

Lic. Don Juan Chamacero y Carrillo.

El Lic. Don Antonio del Campo Redondo y Rio.
Dr. Jofeph Gonfales, Register.

Miguel de Olaragiar.

Tomè la Razon.

Geronimo de Canencia.

Obedience.

IN the city of Sevilla, the twelfth day of the month of April, in the year one thousand fix hundred fortyfive, Doctor Don Francisco de Vergara, of the council of his Majefty, and his judge in the royal chancery of the city of Granada, having feen the royal provifion and privileges granted to the English nation, which his Majefty hath been pleased to grant them, with which his worship was required by Francifco Carreto, in the name of the faid nation, his worship took it in his hand, kissed it, put it upon his head, and faid he obeyed it, and doth obey it with the refpect and reverence that is due to it, and fays, that he is ready to do and accomplish that which his Majefty by it commands, and accepts the title of fuch judge confervator, and firmed it.

Lic. Don Francifco de Vergara. Before me, Fernando, Infantes Notary,

Decree of the Court of Sevilla.

MONDAY, the twenty-fourth of April, the English nation, the lords the governor, and general affem

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bly, ordered it to be ingroffed, when offered by the faid nation.

Francifco Carrion de la Serna.

Second Cedula, amplifying and confirming the Privileges granted to the English Nation.

THE KING.

TO Doctor Don Francifco de Medrano, judge of my court of Degrees of the city of Sevilla. Know ye, that by one of my letters and decrees of the nineteenth of March, of this prefent year, I did grant (to Richard Anthony, conful of the English nation, and to the fubjects of the kingdom of England, which refide and trade in Andaluzia, principally in this city, and in that of Cadiz, and in that of San Lucar de Barrameda) the privileges, exemptions, and licences which appertain to them, as well by the articles of the peace, as by the confirmation, and other favours and indultos, which the King my Lord and Father (now in glory) granted them, and with the other qualities, conditions, preeminences, and amplifications in the faid decree declared, for having offered to ferve me with two thoufand five hundred ducats of filver, according as more largely thereby doth appear, to which I refer myself, and one of the conditions which I did grant them was, that I would name and allow them a judge confervator for Andaluzia, principally for the faid two cities, and San Lucar de Barrameda, to whom should be given fufficient commiffion for the obfervance and accomplishment of the faid privileges, liberties, and exemptions, who fhould take cognizance of all caufes both civil and criminal which fhould be brought against them, in which they were made defendants, that before him fhould come all law-fuits and caufes whatsoever which fhould concern the faid English, or any other perfons whatfoever, of whatsoever quality they may be, as well those in which they fhall be defendants, as in thofe in which they fhall be plaintiffs, although the

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