The pleasant historie of the conquest of the VVeast India, now called new Spayne: atchieued by the vvorthy Prince Hernando Cortes, marques of the Valley of Huaxacac, most delectable to readeLópez de Gómara, Francisco
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The pleasant historie of the conquest of the VVeast India, now called new Spayne: atchieued by the vvorthy Prince Hernando Cortes, marques of the Valley of Huaxacac, most delectable to reade
López de Gómara, Francisco
Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547; Mexico -- History -- Conquest, 1519-1540; Nahuatl language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
In shorte space the Emperour had more complayntes against _Nunio de
Gusman_, and the other Iudge, than had bin héeretofore againste any
other, wherevpon he was put out of office in the yeare 1530. His
wrongful dealing in iustice was not onely proued in _Mexico_, but
also in the Court of _Spayne_, with many persons that were come from
thence, so that the nexte president and Iudges that went thither, did
pronounce _Nunio de Gusman_ and his fellowe for partiall Iudges, and
enimies vnto _Cortes_, and condemned him to pay all his goodes whiche
were euill solde. But whë _Nunio de Gusman_ vnderstoode that he was
put out of office, he then was afraide, and tooke his iourney against
the _Teuchichimecas_, séeking after the Towne of _Culhuacan_, from
whence the _Mexicans_ descended. He caried in his company fiue hundred
Spanyardes, whereof the most were horsemen, and many of them went as
prisoners, and against their willes.
[Sidenote: Abhominable fact.]
In _Mechuacan_ he tooke prisoner the King _Caconcin_, who was a great
friende vnto _Cortes_, a seruitor vnto the Spanyards, and vassal to
the Emperour, and as the same goeth, he tooke from him tenne thousande
markes of plate, and much golde, and afterward burned him, and many
other Gentlemen, and principal persons of that kingdome, bycause
they shoulde not complayne, saying, that a dead dogge biteth not.
He tooke from thence sixe thousand _Indians_ for the seruice of his
army, and with them conquered _Xalixco_, whiche is nowe called the
new _Gallizia_. He abode there, vntill the Vizeroy _Don Antonio de
Mondoza_, and Chancery of _Mexico_, caused him to be apprehended, who
sent him prisoner into Spayne, to giue accompte of his office. If
_Nunio de Gusman_ had bin so good a gouernour and Iudge, as he was in
bloud a Gentleman, he had then enioyed the best plot of all the West
_India_, but he behaued himselfe euill, both with the _Indians_ and
_Spanyards_.
The same yeare that he came from _Mexico_, went thyther for president
_Sebastian Ramirez_, who was a Bishop, and had in time past bin
presidente in _Santo Domingo_, and the Licenciates _Iohn de Salmeron_,
_Gasco Quiroga_, _Francisco Ceynos_, and _Alonso Maldonado_, for Iudges
to accompany him.
These Iudges gouerned well the land, and caused the Citie of _Angels_
to be inhabited which the _Indians_ called _Cuetlaxcoapan_, that is to
say a Snake in water. The reason was, bycause they haue two fountaynes,
the one of euill water, and the other of good. This Citie standeth
twentie leagues from _Mexico_, in the high way to _Vera Crux_. The
Bishop set the _Indians_ at libertie, and therefore many Spanyards
departed from thence, who hadde inhabited there before, and wente to
séeke their liuing at _Xalixco_, _Hunduras_, _Quahutemallan_, and other
places where warre was.
The returne of Cortez to Mexico.
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