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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 36314-36353
Title:: VENEZUELA, PAPERS: a collection of transcripts of official letters and documents relating to the occupation by the Spaniards of Trinidad, Margarita, Guiana, Venezuela and other adjacent provinces and islands of Central and South America, and to their differences there with the English, Dutch. French and Portuguese; 1530-1824. Mostly in Spanish. Forty volumes. Folio. The originals, with a few exceptions, are preserved in the Spanish Archives, and the transcripts were made for the British Gove...
Scope & Content:: Venezuela, S. America: Official papers relating to: 1530-1824. Spain, General: The Venezuela papers, relating to the occupation of Trinidad, Margarita, Guiana, Venezuela, etc.: 1530-1824. Portugal: The Venezuela Papers, relating to Portuguese occupation of portions of Central and South America...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Spanish
Date Range:: 1530-1824
Extent:: 40 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 36315
Title:
Scope & Content:: VENEZUELA PAPERS. Vol. II. (ff. 292). 1585-1591. 1. Doctor Francisco Guillen Chapano to the king, giving news of Capt. Antonio de Berrio, who has explored " La Guayana que llaman el dorado," with a report by Alonso de Pontes, who made the journey from the R. Ariporo to the R. Meta; Santa Fe, 2...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Spanish
Date Range:: 1585-1591
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 36317
Title:
Scope & Content:: VENEZUELA PAPERS. Vol. IV. (ff. 394). 1596-1600. 1. The Council of the Indies to the king, enclosing (a) a letter from Dr. Pedro Gutierrez Florez, at Seville, 5 Jan., on a reported action with the English, perhaps under Drake, near Pernambuco, and (b) a declaration of Fer-nan Rodriguez Pereyra...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Spanish
Date Range:: 1596-1600
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 36318
Title:
Scope & Content:: VENEZUELA PAPERS. Vol. V. (fr. 323). 1601-1604. 1. The Council of the Indies to the king, on the resort of Flemish, French, and English to the salt-mine in the bay of Fregas, or Refriegas, near Araya, with enclosures; Madrid, 8 Jan. 1601. f. 1. With an Engl. translation (f. 15.) 2. Diego Suare...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Spanish
Date Range:: 1601-1604
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 36319
Title:
Scope & Content:: VENEZUELA PAPERS. Vol. VI. (ff.309). 1605-1611. 1. Diego Suarez de Amaya, Governor of Cumana, to the king, on a treaty made with the cannibal Caribs, suggesting the peopling of the new city of Nueba Ecija, etc.; Cumana, 24 May, 1605. With enclosures. f. 1. 2. The same to the same, on the exp...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Spanish
Date Range:: 1605-1611
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 36320
Title:
Scope & Content:: VENEZUELA PAPERS. Vol. VII. (ff. 373). 1612-1618. 1. The Council of War of the Indies to the king, as to sending the La Plata fleet to Trinidad to dislodge the enemy's ships there, etc., with enclosures; Madrid, 24 Mar. 1612. f. 1. 2. Royal orders to Geronimo de Portugal y Cordova, Capt. Gen...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Spanish
Date Range:: 1612-1618
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 36321
Title:
Scope & Content:: VENEZUELA PAPERS. Vol. VIII. (ff. 402). 1619-1625. 1. The Council of the Indies to the king, on the capture of Santo Tome by Sir Walter Ralegh in " last Jan. 1618, " and subsequent events, and requesting aid for its fortification and defence; [1618-1619]. Copied from a printed sheet. f. 1. 2....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Spanish
Date Range:: 1619-1625
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 36322
Title:
Scope & Content:: VENEZUELA PAPERS. Vol. IX. (fr. 258). 1626-1634. 1. The Council of War to the king, with news that the Dutch West Indian Company were sending a fleet to the W. Indies and Brazil; Madrid, 23 June, 1626. f. 1. With an Engl. translation (f. 5). 2. The Council of the Indies to the king, on a des...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Spanish
Date Range:: 1626-1634
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 36323
Title:
Scope & Content:: VENEZUELA PAPERS. Vol. X. (ff. 300). 1635-1636. 1. Rozas to Miguel de Nicolalde; Madrid, 9 Dec. 1635. With answer of the same date, etc. The first letter purports to have been enclosed in another docketed " A Miguel de Nicolalde con los pliegos sobre," Flandes, 19 Apr. [1]635 (sic). ff. 1, 1 b,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Spanish
Date Range:: 1635-1636
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 36324
Title:
Scope & Content:: VENEZUELA PAPERS. Vol. XI. (ff. 292). 1637-1638. 1. The Council of War to the king, on foreign aggressions in the W. Indies reported in an enclosure from Luis de Valdes, Governor of San Martin, of 22 Aug. 1636 ; Madrid, 25 Feb. 1637. f. 1. 2. The Council of State to the king, on matters conn...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Spanish
Date Range:: 1637-1638
Extent:: 1 item

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