Equally characteristic and less excusable was his acceptance of the pension of ten thousand maravedis which had been offered to the member of the expedition who should first sight land.
I have therefore ordered in one of my documents, that five hundred thousand maravedis in excess of the fourth part of the tithes of the said bishopric, are to be yearly given from our purse.
To give his assistant more dignity in the eyes of the people Las Casas procured for him the designation of Captain in the royal service, with a salary of four hundred and five maravedis per day.
To sharpen their vision he promised a silken jacket, beside the income of ten thousand maravedis which the King and Queen had offered to the fortunate man who should first descry the coveted land.
The lawful son was directed by Columbus, when starting on his third voyage, to pay to Beatrix ten thousand maravedis a year; but he seems to have neglected to do so for the last three or four years of her life.
Toledans to supply him with a certain amount of maravedis towards the expenses of his wars with Aragon and Navarre.
Catalina Medrano, was directed by a royal order to receive fifty thousand maravedis as a “gratificacion.
In the mean time his wife, Catalina Medrano, who is again mentioned with her children a few years later, received by a royal order fifty thousand maravedis as a gratificacion.
He was taken into service as “capitan,” with pay of fifty thousand maravedis by a royal grant made at Lagroño, Oct.
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.
Many of the witnesses were let off with perpetual disability to testify in such cases, but a hundred and thirty-six thousand maravedis were collected from the rest.
For, with the six and twenty maravedis which I have earned every day by thy means have I half supported my family!
Their highnesses had promised a pension of ten thousand maravedis to the fortunate man who should see land first.
The wormwood which grows in this country of Xeher is carried from here to all the world, and the ships of this place load[68] the said wormwood, which is there worth a hundred and fifty maravedis the hundred weight.
Ditto ditto of barley " 40 " These maravedis were worth two of the actual ones.
There also grows in it aloes wood which the Indians call eagle, and calambuco; it must be said that the very fine calambuco and the other eagle wood is worth at Calicut a thousand maravedis the pound.
When these nayrs go to the wars their pay is served out to them every day as long as the war lasts; it is four taras per day each man, which are worth five maravedis each,[227] with which they provide for themselves.
Even Columbus was obliged to keep quiet for a little while; and it is likely that the mention of six million maravedis was not welcomed by him for some time afterwards.
And when at last, in October 1496, six million maravedis were provided wherewith Columbus might equip his fleet, they were withdrawn again under very mortifying circumstances.
I would have been able to pay all the people with six hundred thousand maravedis and for that there were more than four millions of tithes without counting the third part of the gold.
The worth of a maravedi varied, from time to time, so that the calculations of the value of any number of maravedis are very confusing.
In reply to their solicitations, she asked that Columbus should return to her, and ordered that twenty thousand maravedis should be sent to him for his traveling expenses.
You will also tell him that in the absence of tithes, I have endowed the archbishopric with an annuity of three thousand ducats, drawn from my royal exchequer, and each of the bishops with five hundred thousand maravedis [24] annually.
I order that the maravedis given and paid for this reason be receipted and charged on account with no other warrant whatsoever.
It is my pleasure that you have and receive as yearly salary for the said offices two thousand pesos of four hundred and fifty maravedis each.
Let me tell you, senor, she is not worth two maravedis for a queen; countess will fit her better, and that only with God's help.
Thirty-four maravedis at the normal value would be equal to 2½d.
A beginning is to be made in the salary of the master of the household himself, all future holders of the office to receive a million maravedis less salary (i.
It is because he has taken to counting maravedis lately, no doubt.
Everybody laughed, for it was very well known that Rodrigo had spent many times over, in imagination, the ten thousand maravedis which were to be his for first seeing land.
Besides, there was a reward of ten thousand maravedis offered for the first discovery of land, and each vessel was naturally desirous of seeing it earned on her deck.
Three royal officials with five hundred and ten thousand maravedis apiece, which amounts to five thousand six hundred and twenty-five pesos.
The stipulated time was two years only; but the cost amounted in this instance to one hundredmaravedis for every pound of the completed reja.
Above all, he must be charitable, and by two maravedis given cheerfully to the poor he shall display as much generosity as the rich man who bestows large alms by sound of bell.
In the time of the former royal Audiencia this was done; and they named an accountant each year, to whom they gave fifty thousand maravedis beside.
Meantime, Government declared that the piece of four maravedis should be worth eight maravedis; the piece of two maravedis being fixed at four.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "maravedis" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
