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feemed vain Proje&, and without foundation , howfoever he received good
Words, and hopes of a favourable difpatch, fo foon as the War with
Granada
fhould be concluded.
With
this Anfwer
Columbiu
conceived forne fatisfaet:ion
and
began
to be efieemed in the Court, for untill
that
time the Courtiers tur–
ned all his Projelt into ridicu1e, and derided it as
a
bream, or a melancholy
fancy.
Granada
being at length taken,
Columhiu
renewed his Negotiation
with
fuch fuccefs, that he obtained his Demand, and a Commiffion to go into the new
.World for Gold, Silver, Pretious Stones, and other rich and valuable Commo–
c:1ities and
to
receive
and take
unto himfelf
the
twelfth part of all fuch
Riches,
Royaities and !:lents,
which
he fhoul?
~Heaver
and acquire
in
~hofe u~known
Countries,
without Damage or Prejudice howfoever to the Right which
the
King of
Portugal
pretends to thofe parts. All which Articles ofAgreement were
made; graotea and concluded at
Granada
on the
30th
of
April,
in the year when
that
Oty
was
taken
and
fubdued,
and
confinned
in
virtue of the.holy Faith, and
with
all
the
Privileges
and Graces of the Royal Favour; but
in
regard the King
bad ne
Money
wherewith to
furnifu
Colum/Jw
on this expedition,
Lewu
de
St. Angel,
Clerk of the
Exchequer, lent
fix
Millions of
Mar4vedH
to him,
which
make
the
fam
off
txteen thouiand Ducats. And now here are two
things
_particularly ·ob–
fervable, one
of
which
is,
that
with
fo
fmall a furn as this all
the
Riches
of
rhe
In.–
dies
accrued te the Royal Oown of
Ceff
ilc~
!hat
fo
foon as the Conquell: over
the Moors was perfelted, the Wars with whom had continued for the fpace
of
eight hundred
yeat'S,
the Conqueft over the
Indians
was begun, that
fo
it
may ap–
pear how zealous the
Spanitttd1
have
ever been to exercife
:J
and
employ their
Arms
againft the Enemies of
the
Faith ofChrift.
By
which
it
appears,
rhat
by
the continued and confiant folicitations which
Columhm
ufed
at
the Court for the
(pace of
feven
or eight years before he could procure his difpatch, together with
the
help of ftxteen thoufand Ducats, all
Sp_ain,
and the whole World hath been
enriched. And having now created of the Royal Affent, we lhall defcend to more
common and
par~kular
matters, to
evidence
the truth of
this
whole Hillory.
CH
AP. VI.
The
Value
of conunon things before the
Conquefl
of
Peru.
W.
Herein the Au_thour enlarging hi!llfelf
~Y ~articular
infi:ances,
at how
cheap
a rate all things were valued m
Spam,
10
the fame manner as in rhe
zd
3d,
~d
1th
Chapters,
we have, for
brevity fake,
thought
fit
to omit, and for
bee'
ter
<hvertifement
to
the
Reader we proceed to
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