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from the time that
it
firft begun to the end th reof, and
till
the day
0
hi
Death, continued for the
fpace
of thirteen Months., and
forne
few
day •
It
is faid, that he was the Son of a Knight of the Habit of St.
<john
· his W
i
afterwards entered her felf a Non in a Convene in the City or'
Los
Reyes
where !he lived with Religious Devotion. But about
t
n
years
aft rwards:
a Gentleman
called
Gomez..
de Cha1tes,
a
Native
of
the
City of
Rodriu.o,
be–
ing lnuch affelted with the Vertue, Goodnefs,
and
Devotion of.!>
Donna
,
.(Wencia de
.Almaraz..,
the
Widow of
Hernandez..,
defired to perform
fome
ACl:ion, whereby
:he might
pleafe
~
and
oblige
her; and
fuppofin
g
that
none could be more acceptable than to take her
Husband
7
s.
Head
from the
Spike
on which
it
was fixed ; he.,
with
anothe_r Friend, brought a Ladder
by
night
to
the
place., where
he
Head
was,
and not
diftinguilhing
the Head
of
Hernandez.,
from
thofe of
Pi
f
llrro
and
Carvajal,
to
be fore 0f the
right,
they took them
au
three
away together'
and buried them
privately
in a
Convent.
And
though the
Juftice made diligent
enquiry after
thofe
who
had
comn1itted
this piece of
Robbery, yet no
difcovery was
made there–
of: For in regard the fight of the Head of
Pifarro
was an Eye.foar to
the
People.,
to
hom his Memory was
frill
grateful:
Inquifition
was
not
made with
fuch
ftriCtnefs ,
as the Commands of
the
Officers
required.
This
Rel~tion
was
given
me
by
a
Gentlem
n,
who
f
pent feveral
years
of
.
his Life in Service of his Majefty in the Empires of
Mexico,
a d
Perit,
his Name is
Don
Lewis de C
annaveral,
and
nm
Iives in
the
City
of
Ct>r–
doua.
Howfoever
at the beginning
of the year,
1612.,
a
Frier of
the
Seraphical Order of St.
Francss,
who was a great Divine
and born in
Pertt,
called
L ewis
Geronino de Ore,
difcourfing
of thefe Head ,
gave
me
another
Relation ;
and told
me , That in
the
Convene
of
St.
Francis,
in
the City
of
Los
Reye1,
five Heads
were
there depofited, he nam d
Pt
farro,
Carvajal,
and
Hernandez. Gi>ron,
but for the other two, h
could not
fay
whofe
they
were:
Only
that that
Religious
Houfe kept
thew the re in
Depofite,
mthout
Burigl ;
and
that
he
was
very
defirous to know
be
Head of
Carvaprl,
having
been
a Man of great
Fame,
and Reputation
in
that
Kingdom.
I told
him, that
he
might have
known
tha
by
th
Infrription
engraven
on
the
Iron
Grate,
on which
the Head was fix d ;
but he
anfwered,
that the Heads
were
taken from the It0n Spike, and
. laid promifcuoufiy
together : AU the difference bet een thefe
two R
lati–
oos is; that the Friers
of
the. Convent would not bury
the
H .ad ,
for
fear of being concern d in the Robbery, but only k pt them to Depo–
fite, or Cuftody.,
to be forth-coming in
cafe
th
y
lh uld be d
an-
' ed
by
the
courfe
of
J
ufl:ice.
This Religious Frier
travelled
from
Madrid
to
Cadiz..,
by
Order of his
Supetiours.,
and Command
of
the
Royal
Council
of the
Indies,
to
difpat
h away twenty
f4
ur Friers, a d
to accompany them hirnfelf
to the
Kingdoms
of
Florida
to preach the
Gofpel
to
thofe Gentil s:
I cannot
fay
certainly
ht. h r he V\ent
with them, or whe her he
returned
after he
had
diJpatched
thofe
A pofile .
He
defired me
to give him one of the Book
I had
rote
of the Hiftory of
Florida
:
And I
prefented him with thr e
pies
thereof, and four of thefe
QUf
Commentaries, with which the Good Fa–
ther was much
pleafed,
which he teftified
by
the many tha.nks he gave me.
May
bis Divine
Majefty
profper
them
in
this undert<tki ri g.,
to
the
intent
that they ma
draw
tho~
poor
Wretches
out of the
ark
aby~
of
Idolatry to the kno ledge and Service of rhe true God ..
And
here
it
wiH
not
be from our purpofe to r late the ftrange manner of
the death
Qf
Captain
Baltafar Ytl
z..qmz..,
fo
that
Hernandez.. Giron
ay
not
go to his Grave alone, and without fome Company.
It
appened fome
months after the former
paffages
that
Baltafar Velaz:.,que'/:.;
r liarng in t he
City of
Los
Reyes,
and behaving himfelf like a brave young
aprain, he had
two Impofthumes which broke
out
near his Groin,
which
he out
of
bra-
ery neglecting to Cure., apply'd
thrngs
to r pel and drive them in, not
fuffrring them
to
operate and break outwardly.,
which
had been the only a e
remedy ; but th Corruption fe!teriog within, cau fc d a
~ancer
in
h1
o
:
ls
ith
fo
much heat, that he was
almoft
roafted ahv .
The Ph fittans
rrot
koO\ 'in
0
what o -appl ., gave him
inegar to refre{h him, which erved
only