ians_ when Transported out of their Native
Country into any other, soon dye; because they are shortned in their
allowance of Food, and the Task impos'd on them no ways dimished, they
being only bought for Labour. And by this means, there have been taken
out of this Province Five Hundred Thousand Inhabitants and upward, who
before were Freemen, and made Slaves, and in the Wars made on them, and
the horrid Bondage they were reduc'd unto Fifty or Sixty Thousand more
have perished, and to this day very many still are destroy'd. Now all
these Slaughters have been committed within the space of Fourteen years
inclusively, possibly in this Province of _Nicaraqua_ there remains
Four or Five Thousand Men who are put to Death by ordinary and personal
Opressions, whereas (according to what is said already) it did exceed
other Countries of the World in multitude of People.

_Of new_ SPAIN.

New _Spain_ was discovered _Anno Dom._ 1517. and in the detection there
was no first or second Attempt, but all were exposed to slaughter. The
year ensuing those _Spaniards_ (who style themselves Christians) came
thither to rob, kill and slay, though they pretend they undertook this
Voyage to people the Countrey. From this year to the present, _viz._
1542. the Injustice, Violence and Tyranny of the _Spaniards_ came to
the highest degree of extremety: for they had shook hands with and bid
adieu to all fear of God and the King, unmindful of themselves in this
sad and deplorable condition, for the Destructions, Cruelties,
Butcheries, Devastations, the Domolishing of Cities, Depradations,
_&c._ which they perpetrated in so many and such ample Kingdoms, are
such and so great, and strike the minds of Men with so great horror,
that all we have related before are inconsiderable comparatively to
those which have been acted from the year 1518 to 1542, and to this
very month of _September_ that we now live to see the most heavy,
grievous and detestable things are committed, that the Rule we laid
down before as a Maxim might be induputably verified, to wit, that from
the beginning they ran headlong from bad to worse, and were overcome in
their Diabolical acts and wickedness only by themselves.

Thus from the first entrance of the _Spaniards_ into _New Spain_, which
hapned on the 18th day of _April_ in the said month of the year 1518,
to 1530, the space of ten whole years, there was no end or period put
to the Destruction and Sla