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Page 314 (4).—Ibid., ubi supra.—Bernal Diaz, Hist. de la Conquista, cap. 169.
Page 315 (1).—The instrument also conferred similar powers in respect to an inquiry into Narvaez's treatment of the licentiate Ayllon. The whole document is cited in a deposition drawn up by the notary, Alonso de Vergara, setting forth the proceedings of Tapia and the municipality of Villa Rica, dated at Cempoalla, Dec. 24th, 1521. The MS. forms part of the collection of Don Vargas Ponce, in the archives of the Academy of History at Madrid.
Page 316 (1).—Relacion de Vergara, MS.—Rel. Terc. de Cortés, ap. Lorenzana, pp. 309-314.— Bernal Diaz, Hist. de la Conquista, cap. 158. The regidores of Mexico and other places remonstrated against Cortés' leaving the valley to meet Tapia, on the ground that his presence was necessary to overawe the natives. (MS., Coyoacan, Dec. 12, 1521.) The general acquiesced in the force of a remonstrance, which, it is not improbable, was made at his own suggestion.
Page 317 (1).—The Muñoz collection of MSS. contains a power of attorney given by Cortés to his father, authorising him to manage all negotiations with the emperor and with private persons, to conduct all lawsuits on his behalf, to pay over and receive money, etc.
Page 317 (2).—Bernal Diaz, Hist. de la Conquista, cap. 158.
Page 317 (3).—Sayas, Annales de Aragon (Zaragoza, 1666), cap. 63, 78. It is sufficient voucher for the respectability of this court, that we find in it the name of Dr. Galindez de Carbajal, an eminent Castilian jurist, grown grey in the service of Ferdinand and Isabella, whose confidence he enjoyed in the highest degree.
Page 319 (1).—Sayas, Annales de Aragon, cap. 78.—Herrera, Hist. General, dec. 3, lib. 4, cap. 3.—Probanza en la Villa Segura, MSS.—Declaraciones de Puertocarrero y de Montejo, MSS.
Page 320 (1).—The character of Fonseca has been traced by the same hand which has traced that of Columbus. (Irving's Life and Voyages of Columbus, appendix. No. 32.) Side by side they will go down to posterity in the beautiful page of the historian, though the characters of the two individuals have been inscribed with pens as different from each other as the golden and iron pen which Paolo Giovio tell us he employed in his compositions.
Page 320 (2).—Bernal Diaz, Hist. de la Conquista, cap. 158.
Page 322 (1).—Herrera, Hist. General, dec. 3, lib. 4, cap. 8.
Page 322 (2).—Clavigero, Stor. del Messico, tom. i. p. 271.—Humboldt, Essai Politique, tom. ii. p. 58.
Page 322 (3).—Herrera, Hist. General, ubi supra.
Page 323 (1).—Humboldt, Essai Politique, tom. ii. p. 72.
Page 323 (2).—Rel. d'un gent., ap. Ramusio, tom. iii. fol. 309.
Page 323 (3).—Ibid., ubi supra.
Page 323 (4).—Bernal Diaz, Hist. de la Conquista, cap. 177.
Page 323 (5).—Rel. Quarta de Cortés, ap. Lorenzana, p. 376, nota.
Page 323 (6).—For an account of this singular enterprise, see ante, vol. i. p. 318.446
