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 70 INDENTURES OF WAEWICK January of the coming of the great rescue ', the earl was to have a com- petent number of men-of-arms and archers within a month. And if the town and castle were not ' rescued ' within two months ' and in default thereof any inconvenience afterward hap to fall to the said town or castle, that God defend ', the earl was to be ■ discharged and quitted ' against the king and his heirs for ever- more. The indenture for the captaincy of Calais contained many further provisions, but few of them can be deciphered except that Warwick was to be allowed sufficient shipping andreshipping at the king's expense, that he was to make musters, views, and reviews quarterly before the treasurer and comptroller of Calais and report to them the names of his men, and that he was to have power to grant under his seal or signet safe-conducts, sureties, &c, to the king's adversaries to enter Calais and the marches. At Hammes Warwick was to keep for the defence of the castle, in addition to his deputy, one archer on horseback, 17 men-of-arms on foot, and 22 archers on foot : and the wages were to be paid quarterly, though in this instance at the end instead of at the beginning of the quarter, by the hands of the treasurer of Calais, the third penny to be, as usual, in victuals. In time of war the earl was to have ' in retinue with him ' as many soldiers on horseback and on foot as had been customary in the past, and again the king was to receive ' the third part of winnings of war as well of the said earl as the third of thirds ', while Warwick and his retinue were to retain all prisoners except princes, sons of princes, marshals, and lieutenants-general of any of the king's adversaries, and ' traitors such as have offended or shall offend within our said sovereign lord's pale and marches there '. Cora L. Scofield. The Early History of Jamaica (ijii-ijj6) The archives of the Indies at Seville in Spain, from which are drawn the documents printed below, afford much new information on the history of Jamaica under Spanish rule. 1 In 1510 Diego Colon, admiral of the Indies, sent Juan de Esquivel as his lieutenant into Jamaica. 2 The agreement (' asiento ') which undoubtedly existed between the admiral and Esquivel has not come to light, neither has that entered into at the same time by Colon and Diego de Velazquez for the conquest of Cuba, but it is known 3 that to justify the dispatch of Velazquez the admiral 1 For a short general account of these materials see Cundall and Pietersz, Jamaica under the Spaniards, preface. 2 See nos. i, vi, viii, ix, below. 3 I. A. Wright, The Early History of Cuba, pp. 22, 28.