_Cortez_ delayed the time to pitche his campe in the market place of _Mexico_, although daily his menn entrede and skirmished with in the Citie, for the causes before alleaged, and likewise to sée if _Quahutimoc_ would yéeld himself. And also the entrie could not be but very daungerous, for the great multitude of enimies that filled vp the streates. Al his company Spaniardes ioyntly, with the kings Treasurer, séeing the determination of _Cortes_, and the hurt already receyued, besought and also required him to passe his campe vnto the market place: who aunswered them, that they had spoken like valiaunt men, but as yet (quoth he) it is not time conuenient, & we oughte to consider better of the matter: for why? the enimies are fully determined to ende their liues in defence of that place. But his men replyed so muche, that hee was compelled to graunte to theyr requeste, and proclaymed the entraunce for the nexte daye following. Hee wrote also in his letters to _Gonsalo de Sandoual_, & to _Pedro de Aluarado_, the instructions of the things that they should doe, whiche was in effect, to _Sandoual_, that hee shoulde remoue hys campe wyth all hys fardage, as thoughe he woulde retire and flye, and that vppon the calsey he shoulde haue tenne horsemen in ambushe, behinde certaine houses to the intent that when the Citizens should espie thë flie, and would pursue after, thë to passe betwixt them and home with the said horsemen, & after the hurt done among them, in this sort, that then he with al his army shoulde come where _Pedro de Aluarado_ aboade, with other tenne horsemen, a hundered footemen, and the Nauye of Vergantines, and leauing with hym his men, should then take thrée of the Vergantines, and to procure to winne that broken bridge, where _Aluarado_ of late receiued the foyle: and if he fortuned to wynne that place, that then he should damme it vp, and make it sure, before he passed anye further: and the like order he gaue vnto him for al other broken places that he should passe. Vnto _Aluarado_ he gaue commission, that he shoulde passe as farre into the Citie as he myght possible, requyring him also to send vnto him eightie Spaniardes. Hée also appointed the other seauen Vergantines, to passe into both y^e lakes, with thrée thousand _Canoas_. He deuided likewise all his army into thrée companies, bycause they had thre ways to enter into the citie. By the one of these wayes or streates, entred the Treasurer and Auditor, with seauentye Spaniardes, twentie thousande _Indians_, eight horsemen, twelue labourers with pickeaxes and Shouels, and many other ydle felowes, to cary earth and stones, and to fill vp the broken places, and to make the way plaine. [Sidenote: A kinde harted captaine.]