Manuscript/Mixed Material Hans Peter Kraus Collection: Deed of sale of land to Bartolomé Dávila

Title

• Hans Peter Kraus Collection: Deed of sale of land to Bartolomé Dávila

Names

• Pero Riquel

Created / Published

• Jerez de la Frontera, June 28, 1512

Headings

• -  Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca family--records and correspondence
• -  Manuscripts

Genre

• Manuscripts

Notes

• -  In this document written on vellum, Pero Riquel, vecino of the city of Jerez de la Frontera, records the sale of two and a half caballerías of land to Bartolomé Dávila, son of the deceased jurado Martín Dávila and also a vecino of Jerez. The piece of land, which lay between the lands of the heirs of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and of Diego de Roca, had been sold to Dávila by Riquel during September 1511, with the understanding that upon Dávila's request Riquel would have a deed drawn up. The price of the land was 200,000 maravedis, and the owner had the added obligation of paying an annual tribute or tax of 915 maravedis, one mutton, and two cheeses to the canons of the Church of San Salvador of Jerez. The deed was drawn up in the house of Doctor Francisco Rodríguez Lucero, who witnessed it together with Luis Ortiz de Gatica, teniente de almirante, and Pedro de Molina, royal notary. It was notarized by Antón de Alarcón, notary public of Jerez. This deed is followed by a fragment of the record of the act of taking possession of the property by Bartolomé Dávila in the presence of Antón de Alarcón on July 6, 1512. From this fragment it appears that the piece of land was also bordered by lands of the Carthusian monastery and of the Church of San Dionys.

Medium

• 3 leaves [1 blank]

Source Collection

• Hans Peter Kraus collection of Spanish American documents, 1433-1877

Repository

• Manuscript Division

Digital Id

• http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss31013.mss31013-12201

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