Manuscript dispatch in Spanish
Medina Sidonia, Alonso Pérez de Guzmán,
duque de,
1550-1619
Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress)
text
sp
1587
monographic
May 1587.
spa
1 sheet
This endorsed "Copy of the letter the duke my lord wrote to the governors of the Indies in the year 1587" is the official "model" of a set of letters sent by the Duke at the behest of King Philip II of Spain. The attached slip is a list of the addressees: it specifies the governors of Havana ( i.e. , of Cuba), of Cartagena, of Puerto Rico and of Florida (Pedro Menéndez Marqués, whose name is here entered), the audiencias (governing supreme courts) of Santo Domingo and Panama, the alcaldes (chief magistrates) of the lesser islands of Jamaica and La Margarita, and Alvaro Flores de Quiñones, the Captain-General of the armed fleet expected to return that year from America via Havana.
Unsigned: drafted as the model for letters sent by the Duke to authorities in Spanish settlements in the Caribbean area, informing them of Drake's recent attack on Spanish shipping at Cadiz and warning them that he may intend to attack them. Paper, 1 1/4 pp. Folio (315 x 215 mm.), with attached slip. Endorsed on verso of second (blank) folio.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
Description based on Global Gateway metadata. DLC
Drake, Francis,
approximately 1540-1596
Early works to 1800
Medina Sidonia, Alonso Pérez de Guzmán,
duque de,
1550-1619
Armada, 1588
West Indies Expedition, 1585-1586
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