- mentos que no sean firmados por el piloto mayor Alonço de
Chiaues, y el cosmografo Cathedratico Roderigo Zamorano: como son la carta, el astrolbio, la balestilla, ye el regimiento.
Y mas, que yendo en la compannia de la flota, obedescan al General, y no hagan mas de lo que el mandate, so pena de la vida.
The same in English.
The examination of the Masters and Pilots which saile in the
Fleetes of Spaine to the West Indies: Written in the Spanish tongue by Pedro Dias a Spanish pilot taken by Sir Richard Grinville 1585.
First they make suit vnto the Pilot maior (who at this present
is called Alonço de Chiauez) that he would admit them to examination,
because they are naturall Spaniards, and sufficient for
the same.
Hereupon the Pilot maior commandeth the party to be examined, to giue information that he is a mariner, and well practized in those parts, about which hee desireth to be examined.
The witnesse of fiue or sixe pilots. And then immediately he bringeth fiue or sixe pilots before examined to giue testimonie that he is a good mariner, and sufficient to become a pilot, that he is a Spaniard borne, and that he is not of the race of the Moores, Iewes or Negros.
Hauing made this information, hee presenteth it unto the Pilot maior.
The pilots admission to the lectures of the Kings reader. And the Pilot maior seeing the information to be good, willeth the Kings publique reader of nauigation (who is now Zamorano) to admit him to his lectures. Whither there doe resort foureteene or fifteene persons that desire to be examined: and they come to a certaine house which the Kings reader hath appointed vnto him for the same purpose, at eight of the clocke in the morning:
They heare the Kings readers lectures two houres a day for two moneths. and then they stay two houres, and two hours likewise in the afternoone: in one of which houres Zamorano readeth vnto them, and in the other they aske one another many particulars concerning the art of nauigation in the presence of the said King's reader: and him that answereth not to the purpose the sayd reader instructeth more perfectly, and telleth how euery thing is.
