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There is in the Contractation house of Siuil a table which serueth for an Arançel or table of rate or taxation, written in letters of gold, wherein the values of all kind of marchandize, which are embarqued for the Indies, are set downe.

By this table a man may know how many Botijas or how many packes, or how many quintals, or how many barrels, or how many chests make a tunne.

And all marchandize haue their rates set downe, to pay the King his customes and the Master his due fraight.

And therein is set vp in writing that no Master may carry any passenger to the Indies without licence, especially no learned men, nor any fryer, or clergymen, nor any body else, without licence, of the King: nor any strangers not born in the Kingdomes of Spaine. Moreouer, that they may not carry away any marchandize not comprized in the foresaid orders, vnder paine of death: and that all goods which they carry with them, they ought to carry the same registered; vnder paine of death.

Furthermore, that no Master nor pilot may carry any Chart, nor Astrolabe, nor Crosse-staffe, nor regiment, without they bee signed and sealed by the Pilot maior Alonco de Chiauez and the Cosmographer the Kings reader Rodrigo Zamorano.

Moreouer, that going in company with the fleete, they doe and obey all such things, as their Geuerall shall command them, vnder paine of death.

Written by me Pedro Dias borne in the Isle of Palma one of the Canaries, vpon the request and gratification of M. Richard Hayluyt, in February 1586.

The voyage of M. Iohn Winter into the South sea by the Streight of Magellan, in consort with M. Francis Drake, begun in the yeere 1577. By which Streight also he returned safely into England the second of Iune 1579. contrary to the false reports of the Spaniards which gaue out, that the said passage was not repasseable: Written by Edward Cliffe Mariner.

In the yeere of our Lord 1577. the 19. of September there went out of the riuer of Thamis ouer the lands ende one good