 | Sir Arthur Helps - Bishops - 1868 - 322 pages
...for the pur- and Narpuse of " assuring " it, to use their phrase. The or 1514. * A repartimiento was a deed that ran thus : — " To you (such a one) is given an encomienda (or commandery) of so many Indians with such a Cacique, and you are to teach them the things of our... | |
 | Francis Lieber - Political science - 1881 - 572 pages
...to our commandery or preceptory. These encomiendas were given by a deed generally in these words : ' To you, such a one, is given an encomienda of so many Indians, and you are to teach them the things of our holy Catholic faith." The colonists considered this last... | |
 | John Fiske - America - 1892 - 678 pages
...thing. Ovando distributed Indians among the Spaniards in lots of 50 or 100 or 500, with a deed worded thus : " To you, such a one, is given an encomienda of so many Indians, and you are to teach them the things of our holy Catholic Faith." In practice the last clause was disregarded... | |
 | Kansas - 1896 - 756 pages
...these early grants of land which carried with them the use of the lndians generally read as follows: "To you, such a one, is given an encomienda of so many lndians with such a cacique, and you are to teach them the things of our holy catholic faith." The... | |
 | Henry Crittenden Morris - Colonization - 1900 - 496 pages
...Oh. 162; Leroy-Beaulieu, 6; Moses, 56-62; Hume, 26S. 2 Moses, 92-95. 2 The deed of a grant of land ran thus: " To you such a one is given an encomienda...Indians with such a cacique, and you are to teach tlu-m the things of our Holy Catholic Faith." — BLACKMAR, 59, who cites Herrera, " Hist. General... | |
 | Sir Arthur Helps - Indians, Treatment of - 1900 - 432 pages
...such orders with the maintenance of freedom for their Indians.2 Ovando adopted the following system : he distributed Indians amongst the Castillians, giving...man fifty, to another a hundred ; with a deed that run thus, " To you, such a one, is given an encomienda of so many Indians 1 [" Which is to be done... | |
 | Sir Arthur Helps, Michael Oppenheim - History - 1900 - 440 pages
...such orders with the maintenance of freedom for their Indians.2 Ovando adopted the following system : he distributed Indians amongst the Castillians, giving...man fifty, to another a hundred ; with a deed that run thus, " To you, such a one, is given an encomienda of so many Indians 1 ["Which is to be done and... | |
 | Sir Arthur Helps, Michael Oppenheim - History - 1900 - 430 pages
...such orders with the maintenance of freedom for their Indians.2 Ovando adopted the following system : he distributed Indians amongst the Castillians, giving...man fifty, to another a hundred ; with a deed that run thus, " To you, such a one, is given an eneomienda of so many Indians 1 ["Which is to be done and... | |
 | Sir Arthur Helps, Michael Oppenheim - History - 1900 - 444 pages
...such orders with the maintenance of freedom for their Indians.2 Ovando adopted the following system : he distributed Indians amongst the Castillians, giving...man fifty, to another a hundred ; with a deed that run thus, " To you, such a one, is given an encomienda of so many Indians 1 ["Which is to be done and... | |
 | John Kendrick Bangs - Cuba - 1902 - 468 pages
...thing. Ovando distributed Indians among the Spaniards in lots of 50 or 100 or 500, with a deed worded thus: ' To you, such a one, is given an encomienda of so many Indians, and you are to teach them the things of our holy Catholic Faith/ In practice the last clause was disregarded... | |
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... as free persons, for so they are." . . . "Ovando adopted the following system," says Helps; "he distributed Indians amongst the Castillians, giving to one man fifty, to another a hundred; with a deed that ran thus: 'to you, such a one, is given an... 
