A final type of revenue-producing royal property was the monopoly. The king had a tendency to alienate his monopolies by giving them out as royal favors (mercedes). Pedro Menendez’s contract, for example, promised the adelantado two fisheries in Florida, of fish and of pearls. Since the pearl fishery did not materialize, this clause meant, in effect, that only the governor or his lieutenants had the right to fish with a drag net or a seine, and this privilege was enforced. AN13 When the dispute over the Menendez contract came to a formal end in 1634, the family’s one remaining property in Florida was this fishery. [Note 46: Alonso de Caceres report, Havana, after 12/12/1574; Juan Diez de la Calle, Madrid 1646] (Bushnell KC)