The herald., 1895-05-12

it appears that one of the two betrayed
the plot to Cortes. whereupon he imme-
diately took steps to prevent the consum-
onHs5o %ason Of do it s,DdSyv, BY sending a6d crs tor
tobal de Oil, and Pedro de Alvarado and
Andres de Tapia and myself and others
of his friends, and informing us of what
he knew. and without more ado he led us
to the house OF Villafana, where we found
great many Others who were in the plot
with him. and four Alguazils who were
with us arrested Villafana. and those who
were with him. sseing this. began to flee.
but Cortes ordered some of them also to
be detained. and when Villafana had been
taken prisoner Cortes privately search ed
him and found III his breast list signed
by all the conspirators, and seeing there
the names of many men of Importance
he gave out that Villafana had eaten the
LIST and that nothing had been found up
on him.
He Immediately caused proceedings to
be commenced against Villafana, and he
made confession before witnesses and
two alcades in ordinary. and Cortes and the
Mastro de Campo, Cristobal de Oil, sitting
as Judges, sentenc ed him to be hung from
a window of the house he lived in, and
the sentence was Immediately executed.
Cortes made no further investigation IN
the matter although he kept some parties
prisoners for some time after wards. but
this was only done to strike them with GER
ror; but from this time on he always had
bodyguard composed of twelve soldiers.
and with Antonio dc Quinones,. native
of Zamora for Captain. And although he
sssimulated with those who were impli-
Gated he never afterwards trusted them.
Cortes now, seeing that the brigan-.
tines were all finished and furnished
with sails and oars and everything
necessary for their use, and the canal
cut by which to enter the lake, sent
to the neighbofing towns which were
friendly to us, ordering each one TO fur
nish 5000 darts with copper heads for our
crossbows within eight days, and to each
one he sent Spanish crossbow bolt to
serve as model. and within the required
time they brought us over 5000 bolts.
He then caused all the arms in camp to
be examined and repaired. and the horses
to be all newly shod. and the soldiers.
horse and foot. were continually exercised
in the use of their arms. He also sent to
Tlascala and Cholula and Guxocingo,
calling on them to send him 20, 600 war
rors by the day of Corpus Christi to
commence the siege of Mexico. and he
also notified the men of Chalco and TAI
manaco and the towns subject to them.
and also Don fernando the lord of TeZ-
cuco. and they all replied that they would
do as he commanded.
On the second dav of Espiritu Santo.
in the year 1921, Cortes ordered review
city of Tezcuco and he found that he had
"a horse and $50 soldiers of sword and
shield, besides many armed with lances,
and 1874 crossbowmen ana arquebusiers.
He assigned to each btigantine twelve
crossbowmen and arquebusiers. VINO were
not to row. for each one had twelve rowers
besides, making with the Captain crew
of TWENTY-FIVE men for each brigantines
and making with the artillery men
300 men in the thirteen brigantines. He
then issued the following rules;
First-That no one should under any
circumstances blaspheme the holy anne OF
our Lord Jesus Christ nor of His Blessed
Mother nor the holy apostles nor the holy
saints. under grave penalties.
Second-That no soldier should illtreat
our allies nor forcibly take anything from
them, not even spoils OF war.
Third-That no soldier should dare un-
der any circumstances. either by day or
night, to go to any of the towns OF our al
lies without special permission.
Fourth-That all soldiers should keep
their arms IN good repair
Fifth-That no soldier should gamble
penalties.
Sixth-That no soldier, horse or foot,
should Sleep other by day or night,
without all his armor and arms, unless
when severely wounded.
Cortes now ordered that all who were
duty as rover on the brigantines, but
none were anxious to volunteer. and it re-
ouired severe threats to finally obtain the
necessary number, for many of those who
ought to 20 claimed to be hidalgos; but
at length The necessary number was OBJ
tained, and he then assigned the crossooW
men and arquebusers and caused all
necessary munitions of war to be placed
on board of each one. and for Captains he
named Garcia Holguin, Pedro Barba.
Juan de Limpias, Carvajal ell Sordo, Juan
Xaramillo. Geronimo Ruiz de Ia Mota and
Carvajal, his companion. and one fof-
tillo, a good soldier, who had come
recently from CASTLE, and one Zamora
and certain Colmenero and one Lerma,
and Gines Nortes and one Briones. ma
tive of Salamanca. and another Captain
whose name | have forgotten. ana lastly
Miguel Diaz de Aus. Alter all tins haI
been done and the Captains had received
their instructions. there came messengers
saying that the Tlascalans were approach
ing, and with them there came as captain
general Xicotenga sci Mozo. who
brought with him great body OF war
riors from Tlascala and Guaxocingo, and
there came small body of Cholulans,
and have always noticed from the time
we chastsed the Cholulans they never
took an active part for or against us.
When Cortes learned that the Tlascalans
were approaching he went out to receive
them and he embraced Nicotenea "el
moz y, land the other Captains and treated
them very honorably. and the Tlascaans
made gallant show as tney marched
into the city. all completely armed and
with their banners spread for apart from
the white eagle of Tlascaa. each Captain
had his own device, and as they marched
they shouted "Viva el Emperor nuest-o
Senior and CASTLE CASTLE! rlascala Tlas-
Gala! !" and it took them three hours to
enter the town, there were so many OF
them.