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Show and Craeltz'es in the Welt-Indies. 2 29 Men, and Chiefs of each Nation, whom the Indians :28 A Relation of the Spanilh Voyages look upon as their natural Princes, {hould be thus " Faith, and that they be taught the Mylteriesof " the Catholic Religion; and think it necellary to " the fuccefs of this Delign, that the Indians and treated. The King delign'd there fhould be due coniideration had of their Neceflities, that they Ihould have liberty to provide for their Wives and (-c Spaniards couverfe and live together. Therefore - Children, and go every night home to refrefn them" we by thefe Prefents command you to oblige the felves with their Families, and fleep in their own LC Indians to deal with the Spaniards of Hzfpaniola, Houfes. And it may be farther remark'kl in the " and to have Converfation With "em, to ailift 'em King's Patent, that he did not in the leaftdehgn (L (c in building their Houfes, and in getting Gold and the Indians fhould be made to work every day and other Metals out of the Mines, and to pay 'em their \Vages exaétly, according to their labor without intermillion, feeing it provides they Ihould be paid daily after their Labor, his intention was " and defert.' You [hall likewife order every Ca. that they fhould be engag'd by fair means to do (6 . and not forc'd to it wheClqut to have a certain number 'of Indians always ‘ what was requir'd of "em, (L (C it LC (t (L (C (C in a readinefs to be employ'd in fuch Work as ' ther they would or no; In Ihort, that they Ihould {hall be a1lign'd 'em, provided that care be taken be us'd in all refpeé‘ts as a free People. Belides, the to preach to 'em, and inftruét 'em in the Word King commanded that all their Labors {hould be of God on all Holy-days, and that they be always moderate, and proportionate to their Strength, and treated as Free men, and not as Slaves, and be- that they fhould relt on Holy-days and Sundays, that fure let them meet with no ill ufage, nor have any their Wages lhould be futable to their Work, fulfi- to reoccalion to complain : Yet let fome diltinftion be cient to encourage "em in taking pains, and {till made in favor of fuch as embrace the Faith. But let no Perfon be permitted to wrong 'em, or give "em the leait difguft in any thing whatfoever. lieve their Families in all their domeitick Necellities. Thefe are the very words of the Letter which the Ki; 9, fent to the Governor of the Indies, by which his Maielty fufliciently fignified that his principal of the Land in the Indies, of the Weaknefs, Foyer- (L tL (L delign in the Indies was the Salvation of thofeldo~ laters, and that for that end they lhould converli: with the Spaniards, which plainly proves he had no other regard to this Commerce betwixt the Chrilli- 1f the King had a perfeé‘t account of the nature ty, Meeknefs and good humor of the Inhabitants, of the rigor and feverity of their Labors, and the great difficulty of getting Gold'out of the MlnCS', if he knew the defolate Rate in which they are often left, and the little care taken to engage 'em to receive the Sacraments before they die, he would ans andIthefe lnfidels, but only as a necel'lary meansl: without doubt employ fome eflieétual means to put for their f‘onverfion. And it muft be farther ob-i an end to thefe Diforders. The. firft Admiral of ferv'd, that when the King gives order to obli‘S';e , the Indies, who made the difcovery of [1118 New each Casiqnc to fend the Spaniards. a certain number .World, though the acted conformably to the King's of Indians to work for 'em, on condition of beiué‘ Interefl‘ in rendering the Indians of New Spain tri' paid for their Labor, he did not intend that all thc l Wary, by obiiging 'em to dig a certain quantity, of Men in the Indies lhould be bound to perform fUCh Q. s ‘ Tasks, much lefs that the Women, Childrenmold‘ en, |