The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 20 of 55: 1621-1624; Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century.
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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 20 of 55: 1621-1624; Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century.
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_Gaspar de Los Reyes_, notary-public.
_Quicksilver that was lost_
No. 1. It is silver.
10. No. 2. It weighed scarce one maes, or nine diezmos, of the fineness
of eighteen or nineteen carats, alloyed with silver. It is worth on
this occasion four reals. [64]
11. No. 3. It weighs two and one-half diezmos. Ten diezmos make one
maes of the same gold of the above standard. It is worth one and
one-half reals.
6. No. 4. It weighs one and one-half diezmos of the same fineness as
the first. It is worth twenty-four maravedis.
3. No. 6. It weighs one maes and one diezmo of gold of twenty carats
fine. It is worth five and one-half reals.
12. No. 7. The gold weighs one maes two diezmos of eighteen or nineteen
carats fine. It is worth five and one-half reals.
3. No. 8. The gold weighs five and one-half diezmos of eighteen carats
fine. It is worth two reals and twenty-four maravedis.
2. No. 9.
32. No. 10. The gold weighs six and one-half diezmos of sixteen carats
fine. It is worth three reals.
8. No. 11. The gold weighs two maes four diezmos of twenty-two carats
fine. It is worth thirteen reals twenty-four maravedis.
3. No. 12. It weighs two diezmos of sixteen carats fine. It is worth
one real.
3. No. 13. It weighs two large diezmos of eighteen carats fine. It
is worth one real.
2 1/2. No. 14. It weighs one large diezmo of eighteen or nineteen
carats fine. It is worth twenty-four maravedis.
6. No. 15. It weighs a scant one-half diezmo of eighteen carats
fine. It is worth six maravedis.
4. No. 16. It weighs a scant one-half diezmo of eighteen carats
fine. It is worth six maravedis.
3. No. 17.
2 1/2. No. 18. It weighs one diezmo of eighteen carats fine. It is
worth one-half real.
2. No. 19. It weighs nine and one-half diezmos of sixteen carats
fine. It is worth three reals twenty-four maravedis.
1. No. 21. It weighs four diezmos of eighteen or nineteen carats
fine. It is worth two reals.
1/2. No. 22. It weighs three diezmos of fourteen carats fine. It is
worth one real.
2. No. 24. It weighs six and one-half diezmos of metal [but of a]
very base alloy; to judge by its points, there is no standard with
which to compare it. All the rest is copper.
No. 26. It is silver. Pelayo Hernandez. All of it is worth 5 pesos
6 tomins.
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