Quintos were also paid on salvage. Salvors worked at their own expense in the 16th and 17th centuries as they do now, receiving the right to a wreck in return for half of what they recovered. This might or might not benefit the treasury. When the Portuguese Juan Fernandez de Cea and his caravel of sailors recovered 2,390 pounds of Jean Ribault’s bronze cannons off the coast of Florida, Pedro Menendez Marquez, then lieutenant governor of Cuba, accepted 1,115 pounds of the cannon without telling the crown. [Note 90: Cedula to Geronimo de Rojas Avellaneda 4/22/1577, and letter from Gov. Juan Bautista de Rojas, Havana, 2/20/1574] (Bushnell KC)