reynaudPT, p. 407: Juan de Morales repaired and probably manufactured lutes, for he “regle à l’amiable deux procès, le premier consécutif à la réparation d’un de ces instrument, le second suite à la fourniture qui lui fut faite de quatre côtes en racine de cornicabra. [AHPT 2231, fol 1093v, 1599.07.15. [reynaudPT, p. 416] details of financial dealings - loans 1556 1588 1591 and 1601 [AHPT 2748, f 626]
romanillos2002, pp. 254-55: “The violero Juan de Morales was active in Toledo in 1553. In 1560 he had a shop in a house next to Toledo cathedral and he continued living in that area for some years. In 1588 he lived in Calle de la Sal. Juan de Morales took on the seventeen year-old orphan Francisco de León as an apprentice in 1594 for four years. He was the son of Pedro de Léon and Ana de Morales from Tudela de Navarra. The apprentice had to live with the master and be supplied with food and clothing. The master had to teach the apprentice the craft of instrument making (without keeping back any secrets), and at the end of the four years he had to supply the apprentice with a full set of new clothing. This would include a cloak, a smock, trousers and breeches in the colour and pattern chosen by the apprentice.; the material to cost [no less than] two ducats a yard. He would also be given a doublet and woollen stockings, two hand-woven linen shirts and ruffs, hat, shoes and a girdle. The apprentice would also keep the clothes he had at the time of his apprenticeship finished (Francisco de Leon de la dicha hedad con Juan de Morales, violero, vecino de Toledo, que estaba presente, para que le sirva en todas las cosas que le mandare licitas y onestas de hacer por tiempo y espacio de quatro años que a de ser su comienco oy dia de la fecha de esta carta pouque en este tiempo le de mantenimiento, de comer y vever, vida onesta e razonable, e vestir e calzar e para su servicio e trabajo en fin del dicho tiempo de mas de el vestido qu a la sazon tuviere le de un vestido de nuevo de yn ferreruelo e saup e greguescos e clazones de paño de a dos ducados la vara de la mezcla y color que el moço quisiere e medis clazas de estambre, jubon, dos camisas de lienzo casero, cuellos, sombrero , zapatos y talavarte todo muevo de mas de el viestido que a la sazon tuviere). If the apprentice absconded during the term of his apprenticeship he would be looked for and returned to the master. If he was still with the master after his term of apprenticeship he would have to be paid a journeyman’s salary. Juan de Morales appeared to have made lutes and repaired instruments as in 1599 he used terebinth root wood to replace four ribes in an instrument.”