Two new unpublished documents found in the Archivo de Indias in Seville provide data on tax revenue collection activity to supply, among others, American ships were to held in the sixteenth century by Miguel de Cervantes .
The author of Don Quixote was tax collector in the province of Seville (southern Spain) and for the first time, documents found what officially located in the towns of Osuna, Morón and Villamartin (Cadiz).
The documents have been found by the researcher José Cabello Núñez , municipal archivist of La Puebla de Cazalla (Sevilla), keeping track of other four papers on the author of Don Quixote, one of them with autógrafo- already located and were released last year.
The first documents found now the order of payment signed on 9 November 1593 by Cristobal de Barros , General provider Indies Fleet, led to the payer Francisco de Agüero , for this surrender to “commissioner” Miguel de Cervantes the amount of 19,200 maravedies (currency of the time).
That amount was the salary that Cervantes was to receive 48 days which dealt among the February 21 and 28 April 1593- shows wheat and barley municipalities in the district of Seville for the provision of the Navy and the galleons Fleet Race Indies.
According Hair Núñez, the importance of these new documents is that it is the first time that the towns of Osuna, Morón de la Frontera and Villamartin are cited in official documents of the time as places subject to personal visit Cervantes.
Chapter 49 the second part of Don Quixote, whose fourth centenary this year, entitled “What happened to Sancho Panza prowling his island,” Cervantes mentions partridges of Moron, “which certainly had to taste the celebrated visit in 1593 “according Hair Núñez.
In 2015 Cervantes experts hope to determine where the remains of the teacher of literature.
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