A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1568. 



they say that our Lady of Guadalupe doeth worke a 

 number of miracles. About this Church there is not any 

 towne of Spaniards that is inhabited, but certaine Indians 

 doe dwell there in houses of their own countrey 

 building. 



Here we were met with a great number of Spaniards on 

 horsebacke, which came from Mexico to see us, both 

 gentlemen, and men of occupations, and they came as 

 people to see a wonder : we were still called upon to 

 march on ; and so about foure of the clocke in the after- 

 noone of the said day we entred into the citie of Mexico, 

 by the way or street called La calle Santa Catherina : and 

 we stayed not in any place till we came to the house or 

 palace of the Vice Roy, Don Martin Henriques, which 

 standeth in the middest of the city, hard by the market 

 place, called La pla^a del Marquese. We had not stayed 

 any long time at this place, but there was brought us 

 by the Spaniards from the market place great store of 

 meat, sufficient to have satisfied five times so many as we 

 were : some also gave us hats, & some gave us money : 

 in which place we stayed for the space of two houres, 

 & from thence we were conveyed by water in two 

 large Canoas to an hospital where as certaine of our 

 Certaine En- men were lodged, which were taken before the fight at 

 glishmen taken 5^ j^j^j^ ^^ UUua : wee should have gone to our 

 thefisht^at Ladies hospitall, but that there were also so many of 

 ^ant Juan de our men taken before at that fight that there was no 

 Vllua, roome for us. After our comming thither, many of 



the company that came with me from Panuco dyed 

 within the space of fourteene dayes : soone after which 

 time we were taken forth from that place, and put 

 altogether into our Ladies hospitall, in which place we 

 were courteously used, and visited oftentimes by vertu- 

 ous gentlemen and gentlewomen of the citie, who 

 brought us divers things to comfort us withall, as 

 succats and marmilads, and such other things, and 

 would also many times give us many things, and that 

 very liberally. In which hospitall we remained for the 



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