The Lorde _Iames Colori_ being Admirall and chiefe Gouernour of the new _India_, sent one _Iaymes Velasques_ to conquer the Ilande of _Cuba_, in the yeare .1511. And gaue vnto him men, Armour, and other thinges necessarie. And then _Hernando Cortez_ wente to that conquest as a Clearke to the Treasorer called _Michaell de Passamontes_, for to kéepe the accompts of the Kings fiftes and reuenewes, being so intreated and required by the same _Iaymes Velasques_, bycause he was holden for a man both able and diligente. And it followed, that in the repartition of the lands conquered, _Iaymes Velasques_ gaue vnto _Cortez_ the Indians of _Manicorao_, in coniunct company with his brother in lawe called _Iuan Xuarez_, wherevpon _Cortez_ did inhabite in _Saint Iames de Barucoa_, whiche was the first place of habitation in that Ilande, whereas he bredde and broughte vp Kine, Shéepe, and Mares, and was the first that hadde there any heard or flocke, and with his _Indians_ he gathered great quantitie of golde, so that in short time he waxed riche, and ioyned in company with one _Andres de Duero_ a Merchaunt, and put in two thousande Castlins for his stocke. He was also highly estéemed with _Iaymes Velasques_, and put in authoritie to dispatch businesse, and to giue order for edifices. In his tyme he caused a money house to be built, & also an Hospital. At that time one _Iuan Xuarez_ naturall of the Citie of _Granada_, carried to the Ile of _Cuba_ his mother and thrée sisters, whiche came to the Iland of _Santo Domingo_, with that vicequéene the Lady _Mary_ of _Toledo_, in Anno .1509. hoping to marrie them there with rich men, for they were very poore. And the one of them named _Cathelina_ was wont to say, That she shoulde be a greate Gentlewoman: it was eyther hyr dreames and fantasies, or else some Astronomer hadde made hir beléeue so, but hir mother was reported to bée very cunning. The maydens were beautifull, for which cause, and also being there but fewe Spanishe women, they were muche made of, and often feasted. But _Cortez_ was woer to the saide _Cathelina_, and at the ende married with hir: Although at the first there was some strife about the matter, and _Cortez_ put in prison, bycause he refused hir for his wife, but she demaunded him as hir husband by faith and troth of hand: wherein _Iaymes Velasques_ did stande hir friende, by reason of an other sister of hyrs which he had, but of an euil name. It so fell out that one _Baltazar Bermudez_, _Iuan Xuares_, and the two _Anthony Velasques_, with one _Villegas_ accused _Cortez_, that he ought to marrie with _Cathelina_, yet those witnesses spake of euill will many things, as touching y^e affaires cömitted to his charge, alleadging y^t he vsed secret dealing with certaine persons. The which causes although they were not true, yet they carried great colour thereof. For why? many wët secretly to _Cortez_ his house, complayning of _Iaymes Velasques_. Some bycause they had not iust