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Show THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO will amount to four thousand dollars, which the Most Excellent Duke of Alburquerque ordered his officers and judges of the Court of Mexico to deliver to me upon my giving a life security, and having given the same with the Captains Don Joseph de Villa Urritia, Knight of the Order of Alcantara, and the Major Don Pedro de Tagle, Knight of the Order of Alcantara, and also with Don Joseph Carrillo, Chief Officer of Factorage of the Royal Exchequer (Minister of Finance). I leave and assign for the payment and satisfaction of the most of the account of which I may be indebted to His Majesty from the day that God Our Lord may be pleased to take me away said salary, and that the afore- mentioned may not suffer or be compelled to pay any amount, I assign as a special pledge two young negro coachmen, of known age, for whom I paid six hundred and sixty dollars, the excise tax having been paid by me and which is mentioned in the receipts in my possessio n, One small silver keg, with stopper and chain, the one- fifth part taken, weighing six marks. One large plain tankard, weighing two marks and six ounces. Six silver forks and their silver tea-spoons, the fifth part taken and weighing twelve ounces. Three silver table spoons, weighing about two ounces. One large silver fountain, engraved, one-fifth part taken and weighing twenty-three marks. Another small silver fountain, engraved with vineleaves, the one fifth taken, weighing thirteen marks. One silver deep bowl, for shaving purposes, the one- fifth taken and weighing twelve. marks. One large silver waiter, One silver basin, with weighing my fourteen coat-of-arms, ounces. the one-fifth taken and weighing nine marks. One pair of pearl ear-rings, with eight fine emeralds, each one and its pendants worth five hundred dollars. One finger ring, with a rose diamond, checkered and enameled in black, worth four hundred dollars. Another black and finger ring with two gold, worth diamonds, one hundred dollars. enameled in Po Det da tos One salver bowl, gilded with a siren, weighing sixteen : and seventeen marks, more or less. Ps . Put a Panre og ba Pd=% ie Be fe) of candle snuffers, which weigh forty-two marks, more or less. Twelve silver porringers which weigh twelve ounces, sealed with my coat-of-arms, the one-fifth part taken. Pr EEA FP CT ed Pe¢ rr — SEES LS rtd e ASAP PAPE Ai ae A seat a ou e ie he ous. Lf LPs 1-9-4 faa stse. ee t+ oe St is. PEP rire i ba be, es adie atid Setets. ied) - thousand dollars per annum a Ine.pe cloth y MUA Ps 0-458 -0- 0-0-7 Bal lt Ok 9 8— woolen a twenty- two years of age, the wife of Ygnacio, one of the two coachmen, who was the slave of Don Juan Cristobal de Palma y Mesa, councilman of the Royal Audience of Guadalajara, the contract showing her value. In the same manner my attorney and executor, the same being my Lieutenant-General, Don Juan Paez Hurtado, will remit or sell at the best obtainable prices the following silverware: Thirty small silver dishes, the fifth part taken, 1st: and twenty-four sealed with my coat-of-arms and weighing more than two marks. Two large dishes which weigh twelve marks and ounces. Six candle-sticks, with my coat-of-arms, and two pairs ak ek honest will also deliver de la Cruz, eo with Josefa SEPALS: rere E J. LPL te Sy Paras ¢!s eta -* ne EPR PE 7, covered attorney Ae a Pee to be my named errr rear) Le ear ee et er eS al ee Coe ae ee ee =? nd FAP ed Pa Fee, al i, el Se ed ee re PS [ea ote le | les ecient diet tel - A Pn PS Pe bier and woman ed ee ee ee ee ea, ee oe ae sab Bae Salata tatiana dard a. said I refer; mulatto . favor, and buried according to military rites and the title ceremonies and privileges of Castile, leading two horses cove ered with the same cloth as the bier. I order that on the said day of my funeral there be distributed among the poor of said Town fifty measures of corn and twelve head of cattle. I declare, also, that since the eighth day of June of last year, One thousand seven hundred and three, when I left the City of Mexico, I have been indebted to the Royal Treasury of His Majesty for the salary for two years which was advanced to me, which at the rate of two to which white or* we worthy Son for forgiveness of all my sins, I do make order and dispose and declare this to be my testament in the manner and form following :— Firstly: I commend my soul to God who created it with the price of His precious blood, and my body to the earth from which it was made. And if His Divine Majesty shall be pleased to take me away from the present life, I desire and it is my will that a mass be said while the corpse is present in the chureh of this town of Bernalillo, and afterwards the same shall be taken to the Villa of Santa Fe and placed and suspended in my bed selected as a bier and in the same to be taken to the church of the said town of Santa Fe and buried in said church at the principal altar under the platform where the priest stands; this I ask as a 303 i THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO _ 302 4 a |