In the yeare 1541. the Emperoure personally wente to the séege of Argell with a mightie armye, and _Cortez_ with his two sonnes went also thither to serue him with a good companye of men and Horses, but it pleased God to raise vp suche a tempest, wherewith the most parte of the fléete perished. _Cortes_ then being in the Galley of _Don Henrike Enrikes_, called the _Esperanca_, and fearing to lose his rich emraldes and other Iewels at the time that the Galley was driuen by violence of weather vpon the shore, he then bound about him the sayde fyue rich emraldes, estéemed in a hundred thousande Duckates, yet notwithstanding through the throng of people, and hast to escape out of oese and mire, the Iewels fell from him, who could neuer heare more of them, so that the present warres cost hym more than any other, except the Emperoures maiestie, although _Andrea de Oria_ lost eleuen Galleys. But the losse of treasure gréeued hym not so much, as the excluding hym out of the Counsell of the warres, whereas other yong Gentlemen of lesse knowledge and abilitie were accepted, which was a cause of greate murmuryng among the host. And where in the counsell of warre it was determined to leaue the séege and to depart, it gréeued manye, whereupon _Cortes_ made an open offer, that he alone with the Spanishe nation would presume to take _Argell_, hauyng but the one halfe of the _Tudescos_ and _Italians_, if it woulde please the Emperoure to graunte vnto hym the enterprise. The Souldyers on the lande dyd hyghly commende hys courage, but the Sea menne woulde giue no eare vnto him, so that it is thoughte that the offer came not to the Emperoures knowledge. _Cortes_ wente vp and downe in the Courte a long season, being sore afflicted in a certaine sute aboute hys vassals, and also the processe and allegations of _Nunio de Guzman_, layde vnto hys charge in hys residence. The whole processe was séene in the counsell of _Indias_, but iudgemente was neuer pronounced, whyche was a greate hartes ease for _Cortes_. And then hée departed from the Courte towarde Siuill, with determinate wyll to passe vnto the newe Spayne, and to ende his lyfe in _Mexico_, and also to receyue the Lady Mary, _Cortes_ hys daughter, who was come from _India_, and promised in marriage vnto _Don Aluar Perez Osorio_, with a hundred thousande Duckates in dowry, and hyr apparell, but the marriage tooke no effecte, through the faulte of _Don Aluar_ and hys father. He then fell sicke of a flixe and indisgestion, whiche endured long, so that on hys iourney towarde the Citie of Siuill, he departed thys transitory lyfe, in a little Village called _Castilleia de La Cuesta_, whyche standeth a myle from the Citie of Siuill, on the seconde of December Anno 1547. béeyng thréescore and thrée yeares of age. His body was deposited w^t y^e dukes of _Medina Sidonia_.