With this letter go two decrees; one (dated on the same day) ordains that suits involving one thousand ducados or less may be concluded in the court of the islands, and those for larger sums may be appealed to the Audiencia of Mexico.
He performed the said office for six hundred Castilian ducados per month, which is the salary drawn by similar commanders.
In the year 92, Don Alonso de Bargas gave him a company in the Aragon expedition, where his Majesty ordered him to go to serve with twenty-five ducados pay per month.
They did so, in a vessel that carried more than five hundred thousand ducados in merchandise.
In the year of 604, his Majesty who is in heaven granted him twenty-five ducados pay, which was later increased to thirty.
He drew a salary at the rate of six hundred Castilian ducados a month, which is the wages of similar commanders.
There he was given thirty ducados pay to serve near the person of the duke of Parma.
I have assigned forty ducados per month as pay to the said captains; to Admiral Juan de Esquivel the sum of sixty; and to the substitutes, twenty-five escudos apiece until ahey reach Nueva España.
This evil result follows from the fact that your Majesty granted the city the income received from these shops; and many ducados are received for them, as is manifest in the said official statements.
Endorsed: "Let him receive the two hundredducados which were decreed to be given.
They exiled me from the kingdom and condemned me to two thousand ducados fine, because I would not give the collation, he being at the time excommunicated.
The judge-conservator ordered the archbishop, under penalty of major excommunication and a fine of four thousand ducados for the Holy Crusade, to repeal the acts passed against the Society, as they were manifestly injurious.
The said chief constable declared that, if he did not obey his orders, he would lose his head, and several thousand ducados which had been imposed upon him as a penalty.
The said six companies in the said forts received thirty Castilian ducados to distribute among those who received additional pay.
To apply some encomienda for that hospital of Cavite appears advisable, and he is permitted to assign it an encomienda of about five hundred ducados of income.
The commander of the ships which are despatched annually to Nueva España received three thousand Castilian ducados per year.
The admiral of the said ships received two thousand Castilian ducados per year.
These were possessions of the crown of Portugal, which consumed in supporting and defending them great sums of ducados and many soldiers; but finally it lost them, and the Dutch gained them.
It can be worked in Cabite in order to lead the ships, and in that way your Majesty will save many ducadosevery year.
The hoops alone serve in Manila to make nails and bolts from them, which thus come to cost fifty ducados per quintal.
Each one will cost your Highness two hundred and fifty ducados to build; and will with two-thirds as many or even fewer rowers, carry twice as many soldiers as do the caracoas.
In that case were assigned for the period of ten years one thousand ducados annually.
I assigned for this work the sum of twelve thousand ducados in three parts: one from my royal exchequer, another from the encomenderos, and the third from the Indians.
These said twelve thousand ducadoswere to be spent on the said building within four years, at the rate of three thousand ducados annually.
In order that it might be done more easily, I gave an anticipatory order for two thousand ducados on the account of my third, on the treasury of Nueva España, whence the said Gomez Perez took them.
For that purpose his Majesty (may God preserve him) gave us an alms, in the year one thousand six hundred and twenty-five, of ten thousand ducados in vacant allotments of Indians.
Deliver and pay them to him, and take his receipt, with which and with this my decree, I order that the said two thousand ducados be received from you and placed on your accounts.
A receipt shall be taken from you, with which, and with the copy of this our provision signed by the notary-public, we order that the said two thousand ducados be received by you and placed on your account.
Because the said royal officials refused to inscribe the said ordinances in the royal books, he fined them five hundred ducados apiece, which remained in the royal treasury.
The castellan of Manila enjoys eight hundred pesos per year, or fifty-three ducados of ten reals, and three and one-third reals per month.
The city has as many as five hundred houses; but, as these ate all, or nearly all, houses which would cost 20U or more ducadosin this court, they occupy as much space as would a city of two thousand inhabitants here.
The sargento-mayor of this camp and city of Manila receives forty ducados of ten reals each per month.
There are three adjutants, two of whom receive pay of twenty-four ducados per month; while the other serves in the ordinary post of soldier, waiting until one of the two paid offices becomes vacant, and on account of meriting more.
The captain of the guard receives twenty-four ducados of ten reals per month.
For my part, I must bring this matter to a head; for I have been much grieved by what your Reverence recently told me to the effect that they will charge to that poor province the four hundred ducados paid for provisioning the fathers.
And at the very least, the five hundred thousand ducados should be granted, so that the merchandise taken to Mexico from China can be purchased in Mexico.
Therefore the viceroy orders that henceforth in the Southern Sea, instead of paying thirty-two pesos on every tonelada, there shall be paid thirty-two ducados on every tonelada of stuffs coming from the Filipinas.
The said twelve thousand ducados shall be spent upon the said building within four years, spending three thousand each year.
And in order that it may be better done and be commenced immediately, I have ordered two thousand ducados paid, in anticipation, on the account of my third, from my royal treasury of the said Nueva España.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ducados" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
