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;never uttered them, nor was her death a judgment of God in. any ref- 

 pedl. But I muft obferve the particularities of the fate of this family. 

 Although Alvarado and his four brothers had ferved his Majefty fo 

 zealoufly, not any part of his property defcended to his children. D. 

 Pedro de Alvarado died as I have related, by an uncommon accident in 

 Cochitlan j his brother George died in the city of Madrid, in the year 

 one thoufand five hundred and forty, being^then foliciting his Majefly 

 for fome reward j Gomez de Alvarado died in Peru, Gonzalo de Alva- 

 rado in Mexico or Guaxaca, I forget which, and Juan on his voyage 

 to the Illand of Cuba. His eldeft fon going with his relation Juan de 

 Alvarado the younger to wait on his Majefty, and folicit a recompence 

 for his father's fervices, the fhip wherein they went was loft, and nei- 

 ther they nor it were ever heard of after they fet fail. Don Diego the 

 younger fon, feeing his fortunes defperate, returned to Peru, where he 

 died in battle, and the lady of Pedro de Alvarado, with the female part 

 of his family, one only excepted, were drowned by a torrent from a 

 Volcano. Now curious readers refled: on what I have related of the 

 fate of this family, and may our Lord*Jefus Chrift take them into his 

 holy glory ! amen. The only furvivor. Donna Leonora one of his 

 daughters who was faved from the torrent, has caufed to be built two 

 fepulchres in the great church of this city of Guatimala, to receive the 

 bones of her relations. 



In about a year after the death of D. Pedro de i!\lvarado, the Vi- 

 ceroy coUedled the beft of the thirteen (hips which compofed his fleet, 

 and fent them under the command of *an officer named Villalobos, to 

 make difcoveries to the weft ward, but what the refult was, I never 

 heard. As to the expences incurred by Alvarado he never recovered 

 any part of them, nor his family after him. 



The Marquis del Valle being in Spain at the time of the €xpe=- 

 dition againft Algiers, and attending his Majefty in it, with his 

 eldeft fon, and alfo Don Martin his fon by Donna Marina, the fleet 



was 



