Translated from the original in the Archivo general in Sijoncas
Astado:  Legajo 18, fol. 845.

Sacred Caesarean Catholic Majesty: 

The Licentiate Giles, Resident Judge in the City of Cadiz, in compliance with what your Majesty required by your cedula that it should be stated who captured Juan Florin and his accomplices, answers that Martin Yricar, Antonio de Cumaya, Juan Martinez de Aricabalo, Martin Perez de Leabnr, Saba de Ysasa, Juan de Galarza, Captains of their galleons and ships, with their people, were those who captured Juan Florin in the manner that they will relate, and brought him to the Bay of Cadiz.  I went directly to their galleons, and to my requirement they answered that they would keep him in safety, that they desired all for your service; and this notwithstanding that the said Juan Florin promised them thirty thousand ducats to be released.  The captains of the fleet of Portugal who were cruising at sea in quest of him at the same place in which he was taken also offered ten thousand ducats for him that they might take him to their king, and other offers were made, none of which they would accept, but, unitedly, with the sheriff of that city, took him to Your Majesty, like good and loyal servants.  And when they arrived at Puerto del Pico, finding Your Majesty had commanded that he and his said accomplices should be given up to me at once, they delivered and I executed the law upon them.

Those captains have sustained much injury and have been at much cost, as I am witness.  They arrived with their ships broken, the sails rent, the castles carried away.  They had spent much in munition and powder, and for the sustenance of those French before they delivered them to me.  When they arrived in the bay they were greatly reduced and hungered, having exhausted their stores by giving to the French.  Much would it be for the service of Your Majesty that those Captains should be satisfied for their losses and rewarded which I have promised them, as Your Highness desired by your cedula, that others seeing how they are honored may be encouraged in the royal service.  Thus much I entreat that Your Majesty will order done for the loyalty I know those captains tear to your service, and because they are persons by whom you may he much served.

S. C. C. M. I kiss the sacred feet of your Highness.  Licenclado Giles.

VI.  THE VERRAZZANO LETTER ACCORDING TO THE ORIGINAL VERSION

Translated by Dr. J. G. Cogswel, from a copy of the Ms. in the Magliahechian Library in Florence, and printed in the Collections of the New York Historical Society.  Second Series.  Vol. 1, pp. 41-51

Captain John de Verrazzano to His Most Serene Majesty the king of France, writes:  [Footnote:  This introduction reads in the original:  “Captain John Da Verrazzano Florentine, of Normandy, to the most Serene Crown of France, relates:”]