and if they did not condescend to it, they menace them with
death and Vassalage, and they who did not forthwith appear to satisfie
the unequitable Mandates, and submit to the will and pleasure of such
unjust and Cruel Men were declared Rebels, and accu's of that Crime
before our Lord the King; and blindess or ignorance of those who were
set over the _Indians_ as Rulers did so darken their understanding that
they did not apprehend that known and incontrovertible Maxim in Law,
_That no Man can be called a Rebel, who is not first proved to be a
subject_. I omit the injuries and prejudice they do to the King
himself, when they spoil and ravage his Kingdoms, and as much as in
them lies, diminish and impair all his Right and Title to the
_Indians_, nay in plain English invalidate and make it null and void.
And these are the worthy Services which the Spaniards do for our Kings
in those Countries, by the injust and colourable pretences aforesaid.

This Tyrant upon the same pretext sent two other Captains, who exceeded
him in impiety and cruelty, if possible to the most flourishing and
Feril (in Fruits and Men) Kingdoms of _Guatemala_, Situate toward the
South, who had also received Orders to go to the Kingdoms of _Naco,
Hondera_, and _Guaymura_, verging upon the North, and are Borderers on
_Mexico_ three hundred miles together. The one was sent by Land and
the other by Sea, and both well furnished with Horse and Foot.

This I declare for a Truth, that the outrages committed by these two,
particularly by him that went to _Guatimala_ (for the other not long
after his departure died a violent Death) would afford matter
sufficient for an entire Volume, and when completed he so crouded with
slaughters, injuries, butcheries and inhuman Desolations, so horrid and
detestable as would Ague-shake the present as well as future ages with
terror.

He that put out to Sea vexed all the Maritime Coasts with his cruel
Incursions; now some inhabitants of the Kingdom of _Jucatan_ which is
seated in the way to the Kingdoms of _Naco_ and _Naymura_, to which
places he steered his course, came to meet him with burthens of
Presents and Gifts: and as soon as he approacht them, sent his Captains
with a party of Soldiers to depopulate their Land, who committed great
spoils and made cruel slaughters among them; and in particular a
Seditious and Rebellious Officer who with three hundres Soldiers entred
a Neighboring Country to _Guatimala_, and there fi