[242] “Todas estas entradas están ahora para partir casi á una, plega á Dios de los guiar como él se sirva, que yo aunque V. M. mas me mande desfavoreçer no tengo de dejar de servir, que no es posible que por tiempo V. M. no conosca mis servicios, y ya que esto no sea, yo me satisfago con hazer lo que debo, y con saber que á todo el mundo tengo satisfecho, y les son notorios mis servicios, y lealdad, con que los hago, y no quiero otro mayorazgo sino este.” Carta Quinta, MS. [243] Bernal Diaz, Hist. de la Conquista, cap. 194.--Carta de Ocaña, MS., Agosto 31, 1526. [244] The Pope, who was of the joyous Medici family, Clement VII., and the cardinals, were greatly delighted with the feats of the Indian jugglers, according to Diaz; and his Holiness, who, it may be added, received at the same time from Cortés a substantial donative of gold and jewels, publicly testified, by prayers and solemn processions, his great sense of the services rendered to Christianity by the Conquerors of Mexico, and generously requited them by bulls granting plenary absolution from their sins. Hist. de la Conquista, cap. 195. [245] “Y en fin venia como gran Señor.” Hist. gen., dec. 4, lib. 3, cap. 8. [246] Herrera, Hist. general, dec. 4, lib. 4, cap. 1.--Cavo, Los tres Siglos de México, tom. i. p. 78. [247] Pizarro y Orellana, Varones ilustres, p. 121. [248] See the conclusion of Rogers’s Voyage of Columbus. [249] Bernal Diaz says that Sandoval was twenty-two years old when he first came to New Spain, in 1519.--Hist. de la Conquista, cap. 205. [250] Bernal Diaz, Hist. de la Conquista, cap. 195. [251] “Vino de las Indias despues de la conquista de Mexico, con tanto acompañamiento y magestad, que mas parecia de Príncipe, ó señor poderosíssimo, que de Capitan y vasallo de algun Rey ó Emperador.” Lanuza, Historias ecclesiásticas y seculares de Aragon (Zaragoza, 1622), lib. 3, cap. 14. [252] Gomara, Crónica, cap. 183.--Herrera, Hist. general, dec. 4, lib. 4, cap. 1.--Bernal Diaz, Hist. de la Conquista, cap. 195. [253] Título de Marques, MS., Barcelona, 6 de Julio, 1529. [254] Humboldt, Essai politique, tom. ii. p. 30, note.--According to Lanuza, he was offered by the emperor the Order of St. Jago, but declined it, because no _encomienda_ was attached to it. (Hist. de Aragon, tom. i. lib. 3, cap. 14.) But Caro de Torres, in his History of the Military Orders of Castile, enumerates Cortés among the members of the Compostellan fraternity. Hist. de las Órdenes militares (Madrid, 1629), fol. 103, et seq. [255] Merced de Tierras inmediatas á Mexico, MS., Barcelona, 23 de Julio, 1529.--Merced de los Vasallos, MS., Barcelona, 6 de Julio, 1529