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the fame time, and Hiouting for his Majefty and Cortes, the adherents 

 of the fa(5tor became difmayed, and the artillery-men abandoning the 

 guns, the other foldiers alfo made off and hid themfelves; one of them, 

 Gines Nortes, leaping down from a corredor, fo that there only remain- 

 ed with the facftor, Pedro Gonzalez Sabiote, and four fervants. When 

 he found himfelf thus abandoned, he became defperate, and endeavour- 

 ed himfelf to fire off the guns, in which attempt he was feized, and 

 made prifoner. A large cage of timber was conftrudted to receive him, 

 and thus terminated his career as governor of New Spain. Circular 

 notice wrs fent to all the provinces of this revolution, by which each 

 individual was pleafed or diifatisfied as his particular intereft fwayed 

 him. When the veedor heard it he was fo diftreffed that he fell fick. 

 He left his command with Captain De Monjaraz, and got himfelf con- 

 veyed towards Mexico, and reaching the monaftery of St. Francis in 

 Tezcuco, he there fhut himfelf up, and was fhortly after made prifoner 

 and fecured in another wooden cage. 



Immediate intelligence of all that had happened was forwarded to 

 Pedro de Alvarado, with diredions to him to proceed to Truxillo, and 

 wait upon Cortes. The next thing that the new deputies did was, to 

 pay their refpedls to Juanna de Manfilla, the woman who had been 

 whipped for a witch. The treafurer placed her on horfeback behind 

 him, and thus, attended by all the cavaliers in procefHon, flie was pa- 

 raded through the flreets of Mexico like a Roman matron, and was ever 

 after called Donna Juanna, in honour of her conftancy, in refufing to 

 comply with the orders of the fador, to marry again, while fhe was 

 convinced that her hufband was living. 



The fituation of Mexico evidently requiring the prefence of Cortes, 

 Fray Diego de Altamirano was pitched on by his friends to wait upon 

 him, and reprefent to him the neceflity of his immediately fetting out. 

 This father had been in the military profefTion before he entered the 

 church, and was a man of bufinefs and abilities. The condud: purfued 

 by the veedor and fador, and efpecially their confifcations and diftribu- 



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