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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, 1683
… be given that pieces of eight or the Spanish Sevile and Mexico ryalls shall be current at 56 s. a piece till …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… the masters concerning freight to be paid in Seville and Mexico coin, which is not to be had there under 20 per cent.; …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… This was first commented on by Spanish explorers in Mexico around 1520. A later writer, John Chilton, noted that …
Survey of London
… the composition clearly owes a debt to his History of Mexico fresco in the National Palace, Mexico City. The Daily Mirror account gives the impression …
Old and New London
… of the cruelty of the Spaniards in their conquest of Mexico. By nine o'clock one of the legs was ready to drop …
Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… Plantations drain the kingdom of Spain low of people.In Mexico, and the Plantations, there are more Spaniards than in Spain; though in Mexico there are many forts of Spaniards, besides Natives, … persons, said to be above fifteen thousand coaches in Mexico. In Virginia there are not twenty thousand Blacks.The …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… useful provision. Turkeys, introduced to Europe from Mexico in the early 16th century, 32 were kept by a few. In …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, East Indies, China and Japan
… because he had served a Spaniard and lived 6 or 7 years in Mexico; but that objection was answered, that now he is a …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, East Indies, China and Japan
… was sent into Spain to learn the language, thence to Mexico, afterwards to Manilla, from whence he came to Japan, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… than the botanic and educational. He imported plants from Mexico, South America, and China. In 1842 it was taken over …
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