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Author: Howard, Amy (ID633)
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Have Mont run across this in the paperwork. Maybe Castilla is a nosy bookworm who keeps uncovering o
Have Mont run across this in the paperwork. Maybe Castilla is a nosy bookworm who keeps uncovering outlandish things in the files and telling Mont about it, who gets tired of hearing the gossip and starts avoiding Castilla, then Castilla has a whopper that Mont needs to know and he can?t get an audience with him.
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Gov. Rebolledo ran a 6-month amber scam in Ais
Date Created: 2023-10-12 20:56:17
Source: The King?s Coffer (ID 83)
Author: Bushnell, Amy (ID 32)
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The initial treasure tax on amber was 50%, the same as for pearls. This was probably excessive. Governors either sent out the boats without informing the treasury officials, or instructed the officer-in-charge to conceal most of the treasure. For 6 months Governor Rebolledo kept two boats down the coast with a troop of soldiers who were regularly rotated. In return for 600 ounces of amber worth 15,000 pesos he gave the Indians tools, some of them made from scrap iron (mortars, cannons, muskets, arquebuses, and one anchor) and the rest from 60 quintals of good pig iron. For all the iron he paid the treasury only 500 pesos. AN130 Sometime during his term the tax on amber was reduced to a fifth, but when Rebolledo paid anything he paid 6%. [Note 86: Recop 7/27/1594; Juan Menendez Marquez, Alonso de las Alas, and Alonso Sanchez Saez 3/12/1608; anon 11/20/1655] The citizens of St. Augustine disliked the way governors monopolized the amber trade. Friars objected to the way knives and axes were traded freely to heathen tribes they were forbidden to visit “even in dreams.” AN131 The royal officials said that when Indians were prevented from bargaining, Florida received no quintos at all. [Note 87: Gov. Ybarra to Fr. Pedro Bermejo 7/27/1605; Fr. Francisco Pareja et.al. 1/17/1617; Joseph de Prado and Domingo de Leturiondo 9/3/1661] Traders from Cuba and the other islands poached on the peninsular preserves, and European interlopers were attracted to the amber coast much as they had been to the sassafras one. [Note 88: Gov. Rojas y Borja 6/30/1628] (Bushnell KC)