Royal decree Recto

Signed by Spanish Catholic Monarchs Isabel de Castilla and Fernando de Aragón, the 1493 Royal Decree records the efforts of the Spanish crown to gather money in order to finance the second voyage of Columbus to the "New World".
The decree describes that in order to finance the Admiral's voyage, the Monarchs solicited that De La Torre, their tax collector, and Gómez Tello, the council attorney, travel the city of Seville demanding subjects to pay their debts in barley. The cereal would be handed to the ships that sailed from the port of Cádiz in may of 1493.