[81-1] Spanish text in Navarrete, II. 9-11. We omit the long preamble.
Spanish text and facsimile of Paris Codex in Stevens, _Christopher
Columbus His Own Book of Privileges_, pp. 49 ff. The translation is that
of George F. Barwick. This document is also to be found in English in
_Memorials of Columbus_ (London, 1823), pp. 52-57.
[82-1] Audiencia means the king's court of justice; regidores are roughly
equivalent to members of a town council. The Navarrete text has
_corregidores_, town governors appointed by the king. Veinticuatros were
town councillors, so called because commonly 24 in number. Jurats were
municipal executive officers in Aragon. The original which is translated
"liege men" is _Homes-Buenos_. Further explanations of these offices may
be found in Hume, _Spain, Its Greatness and Decay_, pp. 18 ff., and in
_The Cambridge Modern History_, I. 348 ff.
[83-1] Procuration=power of attorney.
[84-1] The maravedi at this time was equal in coin value to about
two-thirds of a cent.