Early modern spanish - help

Question

Hi everyone

I have a question reagrding a sentence I encountered in a document dated to July 24th, 1537. In it, a general (Alfonso d'Aavalos, the Marquees of Vasto) asks his mutinous Spanish soldiers to return to service. He finishes the letter with this sentence, regarding the soldiers' demand for pardon:

"pluviese (pluguiese?) a dios que ansi supiese hacer lo demas como se perdonar quantIo mas a vosotros que espero en dios que hareis tales effetos que me obligareis a hacer estos mercedes."

I truly cannot understand what he means, 16th century Spanish and all...

I wrote the sentence exactly how it appears in the document, with no punctuation marks and with the exact lettering.

Muchas gracias!!!

Idan

frankly, not many people can understand any language written so very long ago.. - annierats, Jul 14, 2013

Answer 1

Ok, to start it off, a sort of guesswork, that still makes little sense. The vos is the oldfashioned 'you' like vous in French, apart from that, I'm guessing:

That you may submit to God ( pray, perhaps?) that even if you knew how to make others do so that they forgive each other ,Ihope to God, that you make enough effort that I will be obliged to give you/ do to dyou what you deserve??

I hope help will come.. - annierats, Jul 14, 2013

Deffinitely not schoolwork... Nevertheless, most of the letter is quite comprehensible. It was directed to simple soldiers, many of which did not know how to read or write. Anyway, thank you! - shererid, Jul 14, 2013

Well, I hope somebody can make a proper translation! - annierats, Jul 14, 2013

Answer 2

In what school are you seeing this?

Thisisnot scholwork, no way.. Very highflying, Chileno. - annierats, Jul 14, 2013