Collection ID: 0042 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Menéndez de Avilés, Pedro, 1519-1574 (http://viaf.org/viaf/107540186)

Other related names

• Kislak, Jay I., former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/100551485)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

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Alternate identifiers

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2007574381

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Origin

Place

Florida

Summary

In the age of piracy on the high seas, sailing instructions were top-secret documents upon which rested the security of the king's fleet and his treasure. Here, Menéndez de Avilés, governor of Florida, gives Don Cristóbal de Eraso complicated and detailed instructions for sailing to Spain on the Buenaventura with his fleet, via the islands of Flores and San Miguel. He is admonished not to proceed beyond a designated rendezvous without further instructions from Menéndez, "under penalty of paying with his person and his property for any injury to his Majesty or his royal treasury." With notary's signed statement of delivery to Eraso on 21 July 1572.

Extent

Foliation

Support

Provenance

• Presented by Jay I. Kislak to the Library of Congress in 2008.
   

Subjects topical

• Spain--History, Naval--16th century
• Florida--History--Spanish colony, 1565-1763
• Eraso, Cristóbal de

Keywords

• Geography
• 16th century

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