The word acquired a considerable notoriety in English and American history, on account of the "Asiento Treaty" of 1713.
The Spaniards strongly disliked the Asiento Treaty, and, as is well known, English merchants, under cover of the privilege, carried on extensive smuggling operations against which the Spanish guarda costas retaliated vigorously.
Visto esto el Governador saco su Real deste pueblo i camino contra ellos dos leguas, donde supo, que los traidores estavan a tres, en un asiento fuerte i comodo para su artilleria.
Soon after this contract expired the asiento itself was converted from an item of Spanish internal policy into a shuttlecock of international politics.
These in fact had such an ascendency that when in 1663 Spain revived the asiento by a contract with two Genoese, the contractors must needs procure their slaves by arrangement with Dutch and English who delivered them at Curaçao and Jamaica.
For a quarter-century thereafter the Spanish government, regarding the Portuguese as rebels, suspended all trade relations with them, the asiento included.
The importation of Negroes to the mainland of North America was small until the British got the coveted privilege of the Asiento in 1713.
Slaves imported under the Asiento treaties went to all parts of the Americas.
As regards Spanish America, England was content to profit by the Asiento (q.
My friend wants the |Mi amigo quiere el seat opposite, |asiento de enfrente, with back to the |de espaldas engine.
Can I get a seat reserved |¿Puedo hacerme reservar in advance |un asiento from Calais?
A corner seat facing |Un asiento junto a la the engine.
No document, however, of the kind has been produced with regard to Ojeda or any of these commanders before the time of Bastidas, whose Asiento que hizo con SS.
Asiento y Capitulacion granted to De Soto, 1537, as given by B.
An agreement with Spain, known as theAsiento or contract, gave the English the exclusive right for thirty years of bringing negroes into the Spanish possessions.
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