Wherevpon _Cortez_ consulted with the _Tlaxcaltecas_ to sende certayne messengers to _Chololla_, to request their Captaynes and rulers to come vnto him, who did their message accordingly, and the _Cholollans_ woulde not come, but yet they sent thrée or foure persons to excuse them, saying that they were not well at ease, praying to signifie vnto them what he woulde haue: the _Tlaxcaltecas_ enformed _Cortes_ that those messengers were menne of small credite and of lowe degrée, wishyng hym not to departe till theyr Captayne came. In this sorte _Cortes_ returned theyr messengers backe agayne, with commaundement written, declaring that if they came not within thrée dayes, hée woulde proclayme them rebelles and his vtter enimies, and as suche would he chasten with all rigour. When this commaundement came vnto them, the next day followyng came many Lordes and Captaynes to make their excuse, saying, that the _Tlaxcaltecas_ were their enimies, and that through them they could not liue in safetie, lykewise they knewe of the euill reporte whiche they had made agaynst them: wherefore they besought him to giue no credite vnto them, for why, they were both false and cruell menne: beséechyng him also to goe with them to their Citie, and then he should sée that all was but a mockery that had bene tolde him, and they his good and faythfull friends: and laste of all they offered to serue him as tributary subiectes. _Cortes_ commaunded that all this talke should be sette downe in wryting before the Notary and his interpreters, and so tooke his leaue of the Citizens of _Tlaxcallan_. _Maxixca_ wepte at his departure, but there wente in his company a hundreth thousande men of warre: there were among them many Marchantes that wente to barter for Salte and Mantels. _Cortes_ commaunded that those hundreth thousande men should go alwayes by thëselues: that day he reached not to _Chololla_, but abode by a broke side, and thither came many of the citie, to desire him that the _Tlaxcaltecas_ should not doe any hurte in their countrey: wherevpon _Cortes_ cömaunded them to returne backe againe all sauing .5000. or there aboute, much against their willes. But they stil required him to take good héede of those euill folke, who be not (quoth they) men of warre, but pedlers, and men of double harte: and they of their partes would be very loth to leaue him in any peril or daunger, hauing giuen themselues to be his true and faithfull friendes. The nexte day in the morning the Spaniardes came to _Chololla_, and there came out néere .10000. _Indians_ to receyue him with their Captaynes in good order: many of them presented vnto him bread, foule, & roses, and euery Captayne as he approched welcomed _Cortes_, and then stoode aside that the reste in order mighte come vnto him. And when he came entring into the Citie, all the other Citizës receyued him, marueling to sée such men & horses.