MILES PHILIPS A.D. 



1568. 



be their slaves during their life. In this sort we re- 

 mained and served in the said citie of Mexico, and 

 thereabouts for the space of a yeere and somewhat longer. 

 Afterwards many of us were by our masters appointed 

 to go to sundry of their Mines where they had to doe, 

 and to be as overseers of the Negroes and Indians that 

 laboured there. In which mines many of us did profite 

 & gaine greatly : for first we were allowed three hundred 

 Pezos a man for a yeere, which is threescore pound 

 sterling, and besides that the Indians and Negroes 

 which wrought under our charge, upon our well using 

 & intreating of them, would at times as upon Saturdayes 

 when they had left worke, labour for us, and blow as 

 much silver as should be worth unto us 3 markes or 

 thereabouts, every marke being worth 6 Pezos, and 

 a halfe of their money, which 19 Pezos & a halfe, is 

 worth 4li. los. of our money. Sundry weekes we did 

 gaine so much by this meanes besides our wages, that 

 many of us became very rich, and were worth three 

 thousand or foure thousand Pezos, for we lived and 

 gained thus in those Mines some three or foure yeeres. 

 As concerning those Gentlemen which were delivered 

 as hostages, and that were kept in prison, in the Viceroy 

 his house, after that we were gone from out the 

 garden to serve sundry gentlemen as aforesaid, they 

 remained prisoners in the said house for the space of 

 4 moneths after their comming thither, at the end 

 whereof the fleete being readie to depart from S. John 

 de Ullua, to goe for Spaine, the said Gentlemen 

 were sent away into Spaine with the fleete, where as 

 I have heard it credibly reported, many of them died 

 with the cruell handling of the Spaniards in the Inquisi- 

 tion house, as those which have bene delivered home 

 after they had suffered the persecution of that house 

 can more perfectly declare. Robert Barret also master 

 of the Jesus, was sent away with the fleete into Spaine 

 the next yeere following, where afterwards he suffered 

 persecution in the Inquisition, and at the last was con- 



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