Others remained, the richer paying the king a hundred cruzados per household, the poorer eight cruzados a head, while a thousand, who could pay nothing, were enslaved.
The most wealthy have not an income above five hundred cruzados annually, which is tribute paid by their Indian vassals, in cotton clothing, fowls, and maize.
To reward the pilots, the Captain-Major presented them with two hundred cruzados in gold, to be given to their wives.
He gave him also a hundred cruzados and a hundred testoons, besides the payment due to him, and goods and other presents, so that the honest broker departed highly pleased.
Pedro returned and paid for the letter, when Isabel gave Urria thirteen gold cruzados and fourteen pieces of cloth, which he sold and claimed that he was five hundred maravedis short.
They were also to be told that, as in previous cases, the pope could have had from them twenty thousand cruzados for the pardon, while he had granted it without getting a single farthing.
It is true that this was not wholly gratuitous, for it cost two hundred and fifty cruzados in addition to the regular fees of seventy.
He has agreed to pay a hundred and forty cruzados apiece for the pardons of Pero de Noronha and Maria Thomaz, which he sends, and asks for an immediate remittance.
Altogether, Padre Vieira tells us, about 1680, they had gathered in up to that time some twenty-five millions, of which not more than half a million cruzados reached the royal treasury.
His nunciature had not proved as profitable as he had expected, for he lost fifteen thousand cruzados at sea, and brought with him to Rome only as much more.
He is expecting the money with which to pay the thousand cruzados to the nuncio, who demands it at once, although his orders were not to pay it until Lippomano was outside the walls of Rome.
The New Christians offered to pay eight or ten thousand cruzados to the pope, and two hundred and fifty a month to the nuncio.
On his arrival in Portugal he had demanded of the New Christians two thousand cruzados to start with, and was regularly paid by them eighteen hundred per annum during his stay, and this in addition to his pardon traffic.
In any case, when João de Castilho came the building was not nearly finished, for in 1522 he received a thousand cruzados towards building columns and the transept vault.
King Affonso expected the King of Portugal to pay 3,000 cruzados towards the expenses of this mission, in consideration of the large profits which he derived from the trade with Kongo.
But if 3 cruzados are accepted as the equivalent of 50 fanaos, the value of a fanao would be 6.
Cloth which may be bought here for ten cruzados is worth forty at Calecut.
From that place the merchants carry the spices on the back of camels, which they hire at the rate of 4 cruzados each, to Quayro [Cairo], a journey occupying ten days.
The King instructs Fernao Lourenco, factor of the Guinea and India trade, to pay henceforth the annuity of 1,000 cruzados to Vasco da Gama; each caravel coming from the city of S.
However, the latter is not taken to China; and that of the first-named price is sold in Machan, where it is worth eighty or ninety cruzadosper pipe.
It is black and contains oil, and is worth fifty cruzadosamong the Portuguese; while in its own kingdom, it passes weight for weight with silver.
They are sold in Yndia at about two hundred cruzados [63] per pico.
Grana costs five or six cruzados per codo at Goa, and even seven and eight.
A pipe of wine is generally worth forty or fifty cruzados at Goa, and the fine and good wines ninety-five.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cruzados" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
