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1500-08-24

Bobadilla lands at Santo Domingo and has his royal patent read

Haitian

The commander would not go ashore that day, until the next day, Monday, 24 August, when he ordered all the people he brought with him to disembark, and with them he went to the church to hear mass, where he found Don Diego, brother of the Admiral, and Rodrigo Perez, who was lieutenant or chief magistrate for the Admiral, and many others of this island; and when mass was over, having come out to the church door, Don Diego and Rodrigo Perez being present, and many people of the island, and those the commander brought, the commander ordered the King’s notary whom he brought with him, who was called Gomez de Rivera, to read a patent signed by the Sovereigns and sealed with their royal seal, of the following tenor:

Source  ·  p. t. II, pp. 479, 480, 481 Bartolomé de Las Casas, Historia de las Indias (t. II) (1875), p. t. II, pp. 479, 480, 481