Each company gets 30 escudos in addition to the regular pay.
The order exists authorising the payment to the armourer on account of the Prince of “two hundred gold escudos in token and part payment of some gilded armour” made for him.
The permission of trade to that sum would also be proportioned to the ability of the Manila merchants; and they would get more than five hundred thousand escudos in return for it, for the profits of that trade are exorbitant.
Thus for the twenty thousand escudos that is drawn from the sale of those offices, thirty thousand are lost, and the fleet is in danger of being lost--which means, of losing those islands.
There are also twenty thousand Sangleys or Chinese, who practice all the arts needed in a community; and every year they pay nine escudos and six reals of tribute.
Fifty thousand escudos could be employed in white mantas, unbleached [crues] and of excellent quality; that is a kind of merchandise very largely used among the Indians, and Mexico has great need of it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "escudos" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
