The Casa de Contratación is established at Seville
The Castilian crown created a single office at Seville through which all shipping, passengers, cargo and bullion moving to and from the Indies had to pass. Its purpose was fiscal and regulatory rather than nautical, but it also examined and licensed pilots and maintained the master chart against which their copies were to be corrected. The administrative consequence outlasted the empire: the paperwork the monopoly required became the Archivo General de Indias.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- Casa de Contratación (House of Trade), Seville · institution · Spain · not located
- Seville · city · Spain
- The Atlantic crossing (Carrera de Indias) · route · North Atlantic — Andalusia and the Canaries to the Caribbean, returning via the Gulf Stream and the Azores · not located
Evidence
Partly verified — Core facts are sourced; some optional detail is deliberately absent.
Casa de la Contratación papers, Archivo General de Indias
The documentary basis for the administered structure of the Atlantic trade: licensing, registration, taxation of bullion and the examination of pilots. V55 verification basis: NOT consulted in this session, and cited deliberately at the level of the FONDS rather than of any document, because no legajo or bundle reference could be checked and inventing one would be exactly the failure this pack is written to avoid.
Archivo General de Indias, Seville · 1503 – 18th century · Partly verified
The Contratación section of the Archivo General de Indias, Seville — registers, licences, cargo manifests, pilot examinations and litigation generated by the Castilian monopoly of the Indies trade
Recorded on Casa de Contratación (House of Trade), Seville
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Related
Related because they share a subject in the Atlas — never because the text looks similar.
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