With this exhortation, _Cortes_ aplaked the yre of the Priestes and Citizens: theyr idols beyng throwen downe, _Mutezuma_ tooke order that no moe shoulde be sette vp, commaundyng to swéepe and make cleane the Chappels of the stinking bloud that was in thë, forbidding sacrifice of mans flesh. _Mutezuma_ and his officers made a solëpne vowe and promise to permitte no more slaughter of men, and to set vp a Crosse for remembrance of the death and passion of Iesu Christe borne of the virgin Marie. The whiche their promisse was well fulfilled, for after that day the Spanyardes coulde neuer heare nor finde of any moe sacrifice: But yet there abode in their hartes a mortall rancor, the whiche coulde not long be dissimuled. Truely in this worthy facte _Cortes_ gotte more honour than though he had ouercomen them in battayle. The burning of the Lorde Qualpopoca _and other Gentlemen_. After twentie dayes that _Mutezuma_ had bene prysoner, returned the messengers who had gone with the seale for _Qualpopoca_, and brought him, his Sonne, and other fiftene principall persons, with them, the whiche by inquirie made, were culpable and partakers in the counsell and death of the nine Spaniardes. _Qualpopoca_ entred into _Mexico_ accompanied like a greate Lorde as he was, beyng borne vpon his seruaunts shoulders in rich furniture. As sone as he had saluted _Mutezuma_, he & his Sonne were deliuered vnto _Cortes_, with the other fiftene Gentlemen. _Cortes_ placed them asunder, and commaunded them to be put in Irons, and theyr examinations taken, they confessed that they had slayne those Spaniardes in battayle. _Cortes_ demaunded of _Qualpopoca_ if he were subiect to _Mutezuma_, why (quoth he) is there any other Prince to whome I might be in subiection? giuing almost to vnderstand that he was a Lorde absolute. _Cortes_ answered, that a farre greater Prince was the King of Spayne, whose subiects vnder colour of friendship and salfeconduct he had slayne. But (quoth he) nowe shalte thou make payment thereof. And beyng agayne more straighter examined, they confessed that they had slaine two Spaniards by the aduice and inducement of the greate prince _Mutezuma_, and the residue were slayne in the warres, and had assaulted their houses, and entred their countrey, wherefore they helde it lawfull to kill them. Through the confession pronounced by their owne mouthes, sentence was giuen against them, and they condëned to be burned, whiche sentence was openly executed in the market place in sight of all the people, without any mutine or slaunder, and with great silence, terrour & feare of the newe maner of iustice which they sawe there executed vpon so noble a man, in the chiefe seate and kyngdome of _Mutezuma_, beyng gestes and straungers. The cause of the burnyng of _Qualpopoca_.