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if found guilty, to execute Cortes. They were now on the moll ami- 

 cable and intimate footing. Don Pedro told him that even his innocence 

 would have been fufficiently expenfive to him, as the cofts of the expe- 

 dition, which he mull have paid, amounted to upwards of three hun- 

 dred thoufand crowns. All thofe, and other particulars we received an 

 account of in private letters, as well from the Mar<^uis del Valle, as from 

 other perfons. He now fent a gentleman to Rome, to kifs the feet of 

 his Holinefs Pope Clement, and with a rich prefent of gold, filver, and 

 jewels. He alfo fent fome of the Indians who played with the ftick, 

 and a full memorial of all circumfbnces concerning the newly difcovered 

 country. He alfo took this opportunity to fupplicate for a partial remif- 

 fion of the tithes of New Spain. 



This gentleman, Juan de Herrada, was a brave foldier, who at- 

 tended Cortes in his expedition to Honduras. After he returned from 

 Europe he went to Peru, where Don Diego de Almagro left him in the 

 'Office of governor to his fon. He was highly in the confidence of this 

 family, and ferved as Maeftre de Campo to the young Almagro ; he 

 was alfo captain of the party which killed Don Francifca Pizarro the 

 elder. 



His Holinefs on the receipt of the letters returned thanks to God 

 fpr the opportunity of making fo many thoufand converts to the holy 

 faith. He alfo praifed the fervices rendered by us^ to the church and 

 our monarch, and fent us bulls of indulgence from penalties of our fins, 

 with others for churches and hofpitals. In regard to the tithes, I do 

 not know what was. done. The Indians were brought to dance before 

 his Holinefs and the cardinals, who exprefied their high fatisfadion at 

 their performances. After Herrada had concluded his bufinefs at Rome, 

 he'returned with a liberal reward from Pope Clement, who gave him 

 the title and rank of count palatine, and v/rote by him, flrongly rcqueft- 

 ing for him a grant of a confiderable plantation in New Spain, which 

 ke never received, and in confequence went to Peru. 



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