[3] The minute technical forms of this agreement, as altogether uninteresting, are here abridged.--E.
1. The lord admiral shall give two good ships in good order, according to the judgment of able seamen, to be delivered at the port of Xaragua, where Roldan and his company shall embark and sail for Spain.
2. The admiral shall give an order for payment of the salaries due to them all till that day, with letters of recommendation to their Catholic majesties to cause them to be paid.
3. The admiral shall give them slaves for their services and sufferings, and certify the gift; and some of them having women big with child, these shall be counted instead of such slaves as they were to have, if carried with them; and their children were to be free, and they might take them to Europe.
4. The admiral to supply all requisite provisions; but not being able to provide bread, they are to be allowed to make it for themselves in the country. And, lest the Carib bread might spoil, they are to have thirty hundred weight of biscuit, or thirty sacks of corn in lieu thereof.
5. The admiral shall give a safe conduct for such persons as may come to him to receive the orders for their pay.
6. The goods of some of those with Roldan having been seized, the admiral shall order restitution.
7. Demands an order for payment of the value of 350 swine belonging to Roldan, which had been seized.
8. Gives authority to Roldan to sell his goods, or to do with them as he likes best.
9. Desiring speedy judgment in a cause respecting a horse.