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Spanish-language transcription

The w:Spanish language text in the image reads as follows:

I   Hemos demostrado en la primera parte que
Alava, Guipúzcoa y Vizcaya no fuéron repúbli-
cas libres soberanas independientes, sino territorios
sujetos como todos los demas de España por títu-
los de conquista, herencia y tratados particulares
entre los reyes de Asturias, Leon, Castilla y Na-
varra. Por consiguiente no pudiéron tener leyes
propias, gobernándose por las de los Romanos, Go-
dos, Asturianos, Leoneses, Castellanos, Navarros
en sus respectivas épocas. Una parte de la legisla-
cion española, por espacio de muchos siglos, tuvo el
nombre de fueros; por los que conviene dar nociones
generales de ella, y las mas importantes para mi ob-
jeto se conservan en la coleccion legal castellana for-
mada en la mitad del siglo XIII por órden del señor
rey don Alonso x el Sabio con el título de las siete
Partidas.

2   „Embargar non puede ninguna cosa las leyes
„que non hayan fuerza é el poder que habemos
„dicho, sino tres cosas: la primera uso, la segunda
„costume, la tercera fuero. Estas nacen unas de
„otras, é han derecho natural en sí: ca bien como
„de las letras nasce verbo; é de los verbos, parte; é
„de la parte, razon: así nasce del tiempo, uso; é del
„uso, costume; é de la costume, fuero ^I.

English-language translation

English translation:

1.    We have demonstrated in the first part that w:Alava, w:Guipúzcoa and Vizcaya were not free sovereign independent w:republics, but subject territories like all others in w:Spain by titles of conquest, inheritance and particular treaties among the kings of Asturias, León, Castile and Navarre. Consequently, they cannot have had their own laws, governing themselves by those of the Romans, w:Goths, Asturians, Leonese, Castilians, Navarrese in their respective epochs. Part of Spanish legislation, for a period of many centuries, had the name of w:fueros; those that will serve to give general notions of them, and the most important for my object, are conserved in the collection of Castilian law formed in the mid-13th century by order of King Alfonso X (the Learned) with the title Las w:Siete Partidas [the seven parts].
2.    "Nothing can impede laws, so that they lack strength and the aforesaid power, but for three things: the first usage, the second custom, and the third fuero. These are born from one another: and they have w:natural law in themselves: that just as letters give birth to words; and from words, lines; and from lines, meaningful arguments; in this manner, from time is born usage; and from usage, custom; and from custom, fuero ¹. [Text continued at Image:Fuero2.JPG]