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The sources - preparations

1- ORIGINAL SOURCES. Documents of the protagonists.

1.1- About what happened before starting the trip

People who led to the discovery of the Spice:

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  • People who led to the discovery of the Spice - v. manuscript pp 1-20 / 21-40 / 41-43

Source: PARES

Source: Seville 2019-2022

List of expedition members, their position and their salary (extract from the Copier Book of the Moluco Navy):

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Source: PARES

Source: Seville 2019-2022

Capitulations of Valladolid:

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Archivo General de Indias INDIFERENTE, 415, L.1, F.18V-20R

Source: Collection of Voyages and Discoveries Made by the Spanish Sea Since the End of the XV Century, Volume IV. Martín Fernández de Navarrete. 1837.

Treaty of Tordesillas:

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Archivo de Indias PATRONATO, 1, N.6, R.2

Archivo de Indias PATRONATO, 1, N.6, R.1

Source: University of Alicante

Memorial of Magellan justifying to the King the belonging of the Moluccas Islands to the Castilian demarcation according to the Treaty of Tordesillas:

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Archivo de Indias PATRONATO, 34, R.13

Source: Cristóbal Bernal. V Centennial First Around the World on Facebook.

Memorial presented to the King on the discovery of the Maluco Islands, which they had proposed, and grants they requested (attributed to Magellan and Falero):

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Archivo de Indias PATRONATO, 34, R.7

Source: Collection of Voyages and Discoveries Made by the Spanish Sea Since the End of the XV Century, Volume IV. Martín Fernández de Navarrete. 1837.

Instruction from the King to Magellan and Rui Falero for the expedition to discover the Spice:

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General Archive of the Indies PATRONATO, 34, R.8

Source: Collection of Voyages and Discoveries Made by the Spanish Sea Since the End of the XV Century, Volume IV. Martín Fernández de Navarrete. 1837.

Obligation made by Hernando de Magallanes and Rui Falero to go to the Factor of the Casa de Contratación de Sevilla with the eighth part of what is spent in the discovery of spice:

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Source: Collection of Voyages and Discoveries Made by the Spanish Sea Since the End of the XV Century, Volume IV. Martín Fernández de Navarrete. 1837.

Title of Captains of the Navy to Magallanes and Rui Falero:

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Source: Collection of Voyages and Discoveries Made by the Spanish Sea Since the End of the XV Century, Volume IV. Martín Fernández de Navarrete. 1837.

Testament of Magellan, included in the Orders of Jaime Barbosa and his brothers, heirs of Fernando de Magallanes, with the Prosecutor, on the fulfillment of the capitulation made by the King with that captain for the discovery of the Spice:

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Archivo de Indias PATRONATO, 36, R.2

By Cristóbal Bernal, published by Sevilla 2019-2022.

Royal certificates with appointments and salaries to different officers of the Magellan army:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

List of the salary paid to the sailors and cabin boys and pages who go on the ship, may God save, which has named the Trinidad, in which Fernando de Magallanes, major captain of the said navy, of which Juan is master, goes Bautista de Pinzorol, who said salary began to earn from August 10 of one thousand and five hundred and ten and nine years, is in the following form:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Salary that was paid to the sailors and cabin boys and pages who go on the San Antonio ship, which is headed by Captain Juan de Cartagena, overseer of the said navy:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Response of the King to the officials of the Casa de Contratación on the readiness of the Magellan army:

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Source: Collection of Voyages and Discoveries Made by the Spanish Sea Since the End of the XV Century, Volume IV. Martín Fernández de Navarrete. 1837.

Letter from Magellan to the King about the readiness of the navy:

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Source: Collection of Voyages and Discoveries Made by the Spanish Sea Since the End of the XV Century, Volume IV. Martín Fernández de Navarrete. 1837.

Order of the King to the officials of the House of Contract not to suspend the trip, and ordering to buy certain preparations:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Letter from the Council of the Indies to the King on the preparation of the navy:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Order to allocate five thousand ducats of the gold that arrives from the Indies to the preparation of the navy:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Authorization to the Bishop of Burgos to look for merchants to prepare the navy:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Authorization for Cristóbal de Haro to put two thousand ducats in the armies of Magellan and Gil González Dávila.

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Order for certain necessary payments to be made

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Order for the dispatch of the navy to be hurried:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Salary that was paid to the sailors and cabin boys and pages of the ship named Vitoria, in which Captain Luis de Mendoza, treasurer of the said navy, goes:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Order by which the crew members are exempted from certain gavels:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Salary paid to the sailors and cabin boys and pages of the ship Concepción, of which Gaspar de Quesada is captain:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Salary that was paid to the sailors and cabin boys and pages of the ship named Santiago, in which it goes by Captain Juan Rodríguez Serrano, which said salary has been running since ... (blank) ... August MDXIX years:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Salary that was paid to the outstanding and other officers who go in the said five naos:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

List of maravedís that have been paid to the cabin boys who entered the naos for pay instead of the Portuguese cabin boys who fired, because SA ordered that they were not in the navy, after having received a salary four months in advance, and others who were absent after receiving salary:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

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Order the crew to follow the defeat indicated by Magellan:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Real certificate so that the number of crew members is reduced as much as possible:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Authorization to Alonso Gutiérrez of Madrid to load twenty quintals of quicksilver:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

List of what the ship Santiago has, may our Lord save and keep:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Letter from the officers of the Casa de Contratación about the Rui Falero prison in Portugal:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

List of what is in the nao Trinidad, may God save and keep:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Royal warrant to the officers to send all the information related to the Magellan army:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

List of things that had or have been put on the ship, may God save, named the Concepción, as well as xarcia and candles as well as maintenance and weapons and artillery and other things:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

List of rescue goods purchased by Juan de Aranda in Cádiz:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

List of people that His Majesty ordered to go in the Magellan army, and the salary that they must have each month:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Paragraphs of Royal ID on seat with Magellan and Falero, of April 16, 1518:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Royal warrant addressed to Magellan about what happened to the Lieutenant of the Admiral about the banners:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Paragraph of a letter from the Emperor to the officers of Seville about the dispatch of the Magellan army:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Royal warrant to the Lieutenant of Seville requesting an investigation into what happened between Magellan and the Lieutenant of the Admiral:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Royal warrant addressed to Magallanes and Falero to coordinate the dispatch of the army with the officers of Seville:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

To the Cabildo of Seville and other authorities of that city recommending that they favor the Officers of the Casa de la Contratación, after knowing what had happened to Magellan with the Admiral's Lieutenant:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

To Sancho de Matienzo, treasurer of the Casa de Contratación, thanking what he had done in the incident between Magellan and the Admiral's Lieutenant:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Royal warrant to Sancho Martínez Leiva ordering him to provide information on the case so that those who had caused the incident that occurred in Magallanes on the occasion of stranding one of the ships of his navy could be punished:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

List of the maravedis in which they valued and appreciated the things that were left over from the said army that remain at home:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

List of all the expenses of the navy of the five ships that go to the discovery of the Spice, which goes by Captain Fernando de Magallanes, which departed in front of the Bank of Seville Wednesday to August 10, and from this day onwards The people of the said weapon won their salary, and left the San Lucar bar to continue their trip Tuesday to September 20:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

Notes taken from the account and reason books belonging to the Treasury of the Casa de la Contratación. — Fernando de Magallanes, Ruy Falero and others:

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Source: The Discovery of the Pacific Ocean. Hernando de Magallanes and his companions. Documents José Toribio Medina, 1920.

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1- ORIGINAL SOURCES. Documents of the protagonists.

1.1- About what happened before starting the trip

1.2- About what happened during the trip

1.3- About what happened after the trip

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