Articles

    First:  twelve pieces of heavy artillery, and among
    them culverins and reenforced cannon and swivel-guns
    for the fortress which is to be built, xii

    Fifty more bronze bersos [small culverins], of the
    sort brought from Espana with double chambers, 1

    Twenty falcons with double chambers, xx

    A dozen new scaling ladders, xii

    Balls for the artillery and the molds for making them,

    Two hundred quintals [90] of powder cc

    Fifty quintals of fuses, l

    Two hundred quintals of lead, cc

    Fifty quintals of saltpetre, l

    Thirty quintals of rock sulphur, xxx

Three hundred arquebuses (not of the worthless supply there in Mexico); and with them some with flints, all with horn powder-flasks (large or small) together with their molds and gear, which are to be in good condition, ccc

    One hundred corselets with their fittings, c

    Two hundred morions and helmets, cc

    Fifty coats-of-mail, of rather heavy mail, 1

    One hundred tapir hides, c

    One hundred white blankets for light and serviceable
    body armor, c

    Three hundred pikes with their iron points, ccc

    Fifty cavalry lances, 1

    Fifty good broadswords, of which there is great need, 1

    Twelve foreign cannoniers, for those whom we brought
    with us are of little account, xii

    Three hundred well-disposed soldiers who are to remain
    here, (a third or half of them to be sailors), ccc

    A dozen carpenters to build the vessels which must
    be built here, xii

    Two smiths, with their forges and tools, ii

    Four pairs of bellows with their tubes, iiii

    Twelve negroes for these forges, and among them
    four sawyers, xii

    An artificer or two to make arquebuses and locks
    for them, ii

    Two other locksmiths, ii