signed with his sign to the effect that he has shown this [letter] to you, that we may know how our command is obeyed. Given at the city of Barcelona on the twentieth day of the month of November, in the year of the birth of our Saviour Jesus Christ one thousand and five hundred and forty-two. I, THE KING, I, Juan de Samano, Secretary to their Cæsarean and Catholic Majesties, caused it to be written by command. Fr. Garsias, Cardinalis Hispalensis. Doctor Guevara. Doctor Figueroa. Registered. Ochoa de Luyando. For the Chancellor. Ochoa de Luyando, FOOTNOTES: [162] Blank in the original MS. [163] That is, his mother Juana's grandson, his Majesty's own son. [164] Attorney General. [165] Santo Domingo, Mexico, Guatemala with Nicaragua and Peru. [166] _Naboria_--domestic service: _tapia_--task work. [167] _Juan Infante._ No notice seems to be preserved of this _encomendero_. _Diego de Ordás._ Was a native of Campos de Valverde or Castro Verde. He was chief _Mayor-domo_ to Diego de Velásquez, governor of Cuba, and was sent by him to arrest Cortés at Trinidad, in the Island of Cuba, when he had already started on the expedition to Mexico. Instead of arresting Cortés, D. de Ordás joined his company and was made Captain of one of the ships of the expedition, and became one of the principal leaders. He was the first Spaniard to ascend Popocatepetl. After the fall of Mexico he was sent by Cortés on a mission to Spain, when he was made a _Comendador_ of the order of Santiago, had the grant of Indians which had been made to him in Mexico confirmed by the Emperor, and was given a smoking mountain (Popocatepetl) as his coat of arms. He then went back to Mexico, and two or three years later returned to Castile, and petitioned for leave to conquer the Marañón region, where he lost his life. He was about forty years old when he left Cuba for Mexico. _Maestro Roa._ When describing the festivities in Mexico to celebrate the peace made by Francis I and the Emperor at Aguas Muertas, Bernal Díaz says (ch. cci): "After this, on the following morning, half this same _Plaza_ had been turned into the City of Rhodes with its towers ... and of the hundred knights commanders ... the Marquis Cortés was their commander and the Grand Master of Rhodes.... "I want to add an amusing story concerning a settler in Mexico called the Master of Rhodes (Maestro de Roda), already an old man, who had a great wen on his neck. He had the name of Master of Rhodes because they called him purposely Master of Rhodes, and it was he for whom the Marquis had sent to Castile to heal his right arm, which he had broken in a fall from a horse after his return from Honduras, and he paid him very well for coming to cure his arm, and gave him some _pueblos_ of Indians.