of the month of October, in the year one thoufand

fix hundred forty-nine.

Antonio Gonçales de Avellaneda.

THE KING.

TO Don Geronimo del Pueyo Araciel, one of the council, and regent of my court of Degrees of the city of Sevilla. Know ye, that by my letter and decree of the nineteenth of March, one thousand fix hundred forty-and-five, I did grant to Richard Anthony, conful of the English nation, and to the fubjects of the King of England, who refide and trade in Andaluzia, principally in this city, and that of Cadiz and San Lucar de Barrameda, that they fhould enjoy the privileges, exemptions, and liberties which belong to them, as well by the articles of peace, as by the confirmation, and other grants and indultos, which the King my Lord and Father (now in glory) granted them, with all the qualities, conditions, pre-eminences, and amplifications, in the faid decree declared, as thereby more largely it doth appear, to which I refer myfelf; one of the conditions which I then did grant them was, that I fhould appoint and grant them a judge confervator for Andaluzia, principally for the faid two cities, and San Lucar de Barrameda, to whom fhould be given fufficient commiffion for the obfervance and accomplishment of the faid privileges, liberties, and exemptions, who fhould take cognizance of all caufes civil and criminal (in which they were defendants) which against them fhall or fhould be brought, and before him fhould pafs all the fuits and caufes whatsoever, which fhould concern the faid Englifh, or other perfons whatsoever, of whatsoever quality they may be, as well in thofe in which they fhall be plaintiffs as defendants, though the perfons that fhall fue them, or which by them fhall be fued, may have whatfoever fpecial judges, as well by covenant or contract which they have made, as by pre-eminence or

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immunities which they may have, because that of the faid causes only fhall take fpecial cognizance the faid judge confervator, and no other judge or tribunal, although it be by way of excefs, or in any other form and manner whatfoever, and that for matters and fuits which fhall offer in the faid cities of Cadiz, Malaga, and San Lucar, and that they may fubftitute their commiffion in the perfon which by the said nation fhall be thought fit, for the ending thereof, and that it may be remitted to him to determine them, and of what the faid judges fhall determine, they may appeal to my council, and not to any other tribunal; and by my cedula of the twenty-fixth of June, of the year fix hundred forty-five, I gave commiffion for all the aforementioned, to Don Francisco de Medrano, who was judge of this court, according as in the faid decree and cedula more at large is contained and declared: and now on the behalf of the faid Richard Anthony, for himself, and the rest of the faid English nation, I have been petitioned, that whereas the faid Don Francisco de Medrano cannot proceed in the exercife of the faid commiffion, by my having promoted him from that place to be one of the judges of my court and chancery, which refide in the city of Granada (and that they have named you in his stead) that I would be pleased to grant you my cedula, to be fixed in the faid commiffion, or as I fhall fee fit; I have thought good for the prefent you fhall affift in that court, and by your abfence, and after you, he whom the faid nation, in the said city of Sevilla, shall appoint; and I charge you, and commit to your pro→ tection and defence all the aforementioned, and command that you fee the faid conditions, pre-eminences, and amplifications contained in the faid decree, and all of them, to be kept in due form, according and in the manner as in the faid decree, and in this my cedula, is declared, without confenting or allowing that in the whole or in part may be put, or put any

difficulty,

difficulty, and before you, and not before any other judge, in the firft inftance fhall be brought and followed all fuits and caufes thereupon, and whatsoever thing, and part thereof, shall be made and caused, and to take cognizance likewise of all causes civil and criminal, in which you shall be defendants, which against you fhall be brought; and before you shall pass whatsoever fuits and caufes fhall concern the faid English, between whatsoever perfons of whatsoever quality they may be, and the execution, and the chastisement of the disobedient that shall oppose it; because that my will is, that the cognizance and determination of all that is contained in this faid decree, and in this my cedula of amplification, specially fhall concern you, and doth concern you, proceeding in all matters against those that fhall be found guilty, executing on them the punishment you fhall find by law, without that any tribunals, courts or chancery, or any judges and juftices of my kingdoms and dominions, of whatsoever quality they be, may intermeddle or do intermeddle, either in the ufe or exercise in the jurifdiction of the said first inftance (which by this my cedula I grant you) either by way of excefs, appeal, or any other manner of recourfe; 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 each thing and part thereof, I grant you the most full power and ample commiffion, which by law is required and is neceffary, with its incidences, dependencies, annexities, and connexities; and after you, the faid English nation in the faid city of Sevilla have power to name in the faid commiffion one of the judges of that court, whom the faid nation fhall think fit; and I command the prefident, and those of my council, that presenting his name before him, the faid commiffion happening to be vacant by promotion, or vacation, or by any other manner, that you give the needful difpatches to him that shall be named therein, in form, according

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cording and as by this my cedula is ordained: and that it be the better accomplished, all that is contained in the faid decree, and in this my cedula, I give you licence, power, and authority, that you fubftitute, and may substitute this commiffion for all matters and fuits which fhall offer in the faid cities of Cadiz, Malaga, and San Lucar, in the perfon which by the faid nation fhall be propofed you, that he may conclude them, and that you may remit them to him to determine them, in the form you fhall think fit and fee convenient for fecurity of the faid nation, and that all be obferved in the form which by the faid decree, and by this my cedula, is ordained and commanded, whatfoever laws and pragmaticas of my faid kingdoms and dominions, ordinances, ftile, ufe, and custom, and other thing whatsoever may be, or might be, to the contrary notwithstanding. With all which, and for as much as shall concern this, and by these presents, I difpenfe therewith, these remaining in full force and vigour for the future. Given in Madrid, the twenty-fecond of November, in the year one thousand fix hundred forty-eight. I the KING.

By command of our Lord the King,

Antonio Carnero.

IN the city of Sevilla, the tenth day of the month of March, of the year one thousand fix hundred fortynine, I the notary made known his Majefty's Royal decree, contained on the other fide, to Don Geronimo del Pueyo Araciel, of his Majefty's Royal council of Caftille, and governor of this Royal court; and his lordship having feen it, took it in his hand, kiffed it, put it upon his head, and obeyed it with due reverence, as a letter and cedula from his King and natural lord; and his lordship accepted and doth accept the jurifdiction which by it is granted him, and is ready to make ufe of it accordingly, and as his Majefty commands him,

and

and to administer juftice to the parties; and fo provided, commanded, and firmed these prefents.

Before

Don Geronymo del Pueyo Araciel. me, Antonio Gonçales de Avellaneda, Notary.

The QUEEN Governess.

DON Rodrigo Serrano y Trillo, regent of our court of Degrees of the city of Sevilla, Know, that our Lord the King, which is in glory, by a letter of his, and a decree of the nineteenth of March, one thoufand fix hundred forty-five, did grant to Richard Anthony, conful of the English nation, and to the fubjects of the King of England which refide and trade in Andaluzia, principally in this city, and in that of Cadiz and San Lucar, that the privileges, exemp tions, and liberties which concern them, fhould be obferved, as well thofe granted by the articles of peace, as by the confirmations and other favours and indultos of thofe which my Lord the King, Don Philip the Third (who alfo is in glory) gave them, and granted them, with liberty to name a judge confervator, which fhould cause their privileges and pre-eminences to be obferved, and that he fhould be one of the judges of the faid court, which the faid nation fhould name, and in the form, and with the qualities and conditions in the faid decree declared; and by a cedula of the twenty-fixth of November, one thousand fix hundred forty-and-eight, a commiffion was paft for it to Don Geronymo del Pueyo Araciel, who was of the council, and regent of our faid court, wherein have fucceeded, by virtue of his Majefty's faid cedula, the re gents which, after the faid Don Geronimo, have been of the faid court: and lastly, by another of the thirteenth of July, one thousand fix hundred fixty-andfour, it was ordered, that Don Lorenzo Santos de San Pedro, of our council, fhould continue therein, who

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