20. He wanted to kill Don Baltasar de Castilla, son of the Count of Gomera, who came to offer his services, and the same with Gaspar Mexia and others, who for that reason fled to Cuzco. [Sidenote: His wild talk in the _tambos_. Opinions of his character.] 21. To show his powers, in the _tambos_ and elsewhere he made a display of them, recounting his severities in other posts he had held, with details. All his hearers took him for an imprudent, injudicious, cruel, violent man who neither wanted nor sought for counsel. [Sidenote: Hated by all.] 22. Every one, even his brothers, relations, and servants detested and were unable to endure him. [Sidenote: Partiality and temper.] 23. In many lawsuits he showed himself to be passionate and partial. [Sidenote: Corrupt practices.] 24. He gave powers of attorney of the Court of Justice to incapable persons, to whom they were sold by his brother Vela Nuñez and his brother-in-law Cueto. [Sidenote: Nepotism.] 25. He ordered that all the Constables of the kingdom should contribute half of fees to his brother-in-law Diego Alvarez Cueto as Chief Constable and, in spite of the Judges, he caused them to be paid by the court and the city. [Sidenote: Despotism.] 26. Cueto despised the appointment, and a servant of the Viceroy acted as his substitute, very violently, so that neither the Judges nor the Alcaldes could do anything but what the Viceroy liked. [Sidenote: Brother and brother-in-law lawless.] 27. Cueto and Vela Nuñez always took out of prison anyone they chose. [Sidenote: Nepotism.] 28, 29. In spite of the citizens, he made them, by menaces, receive his brother-in-law as Chief Constable. [Sidenote: Misgovernment.] 30. He settled the tributes by the statements of certain persons who had received grants, or only of Indians, without consulting the Judges, without information, or keeping the rules of the ordinances, or the instructions. For this he brought the chiefs and principal Indians to Lima maintaining them and their followers, leaving their districts without Indians or provisions, and thus causing troubles followed by famines, robberies, and disturbance. [Sidenote: Corrupt practices.] 31. He fixed the tributes with partiality and without knowledge, doubling the tax on some, reducing it by a half for others who were friends of Cueto and Vela Nuñez. 32. The Indians of Melchor Verdugo, a citizen of Truxillo, because he came from Avila, were rated higher than those of all the other citizens put together. The valuation of Verdugo was over 9000 _pesos_ of gold and other things, and that of all the others put together did not amount to that sum. [Sidenote: Opinions against him.]