Crossword-Solution: CUARTA 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

The product of the "crozada" and "cuarta," or money paid to him in small sums by individuals, with the permission of his Holiness, for the liberty of abstaining from the Church fasts, was estimated at five hundred thousand ducats.

Cerca de la cuarta parte de esta cámara ocupábalo un montón de paquetitos envueltos en papel de varios colores, que para cualquiera que por primera vez entrase en ella, sería un misterio.

Dominguez, the gaoler, went with them-- having received orders to that effect--carrying a heavy _cuarta_ with hard raw-hide lash knotted at the end.

This letter, which bears the same date as the famous paper called the _Carta Cuarta_ (October 15, 1524), was written when four officers of the Spanish Crown--the treasurer, Alonso de Estrada; the accountant and paymaster, Rodrigo de Albornoz; the factor, Gonzalo de Salazar; and the inspector, Peral Mendez Chirinos--had come to Mexico to take care of the financial interests of the monarch.