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A18098	The Spanish colonie, or Briefe chronicle of the acts and gestes of the Spaniardes in the West Indies, called the newe world, for the space of xl. yeeres: written in the Castilian tongue by the reuerend Bishop Bartholomew de las Cases or Casaus, a friar of the order of S. Dominicke. And nowe first translated into english, by M.M.S.; Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias. English	Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1474-1566.; M. M. S., fl. 1583.	1583 (1583)	STC 4739; ESTC S104917	106,639	150

to suffer much an other time Item I say that by the reporte of the Indians themselues there is yet more golde hidden then is come to light the whiche because of the vniustices and cruelties of the Spaniardes they woulde not discouer neyther euer will discouer so long as they shall bee so euyll entreated but will those rather to die with their fellowes Wherein GOD our Lorde hath been highly trespassed agayinst and the kinges Maiestie euill serued hauing beene defrauded in that that his highnesse hath loste suche a countrey as hath been able to yeelde sustenaunce to all Castile for the recouerie of which countrey it will be a matter of great difficulty dispence and charges All these hitherto are the formall woordes of the sayde religious person the which are also ratified by the Byshoppe of Mexico which witnesseth that the reuerende father hath to his knowledge affirmed all the aboue saide It is heere to bee considered that the good father sayeth that he sawe those thynges For that that hee hath beene fiftie or an hundred leagues vp into the conntrey for the space of niene or tenne yeeres and that at the very beginning when there were not as yet but very fewe of the Spaniardes but at the ringing of the golde there were quickly gathered and fleeked thither foure or fiue thousande which shedde themselues foorth ouer many great realmes and prouinces more then fiue hundred or sixe hundred leagues the whiche countrey hath beene throughly destroyed they executing still the selfe same practises and others more barbarous and cruell Of a veritie from that day vnto this presente there hath beene destroyed and brought to desolation moe soules then hee hath compted and they haue with lesse reuerence of GOD or the King and with lesse plttie then before abolished a great part of the linage of mankinde They haue slayne vnto this day in these same realmes and yet dayly they doe slay them moe then foure millions of soules Certayne dayes passed they pricked in shooting with dartes of reedes to death a mightie Queene wife of Eling who is yet King of that Realme whom the Spaniardes by laying handes vpon him compelled to rebell and in rebellion hee persisteth They tooke the Queene his wife and so as hath beene sayde slue her against all reason and iustice beeing greate with childe as shee was as it was said onely to vexe her husband withall If it shoulde bee expedient to recounte the particularities of the cruelties and slaughters that the Spanishe haue committed and yet dayly doe committe in Peru without all doubt they shoulde bee so frightfull and in so great number that all that wee haue hitherto saide of the other partes of the Indies woulde bee shadowed and it woulde seeme a small matter in the respecte of the grieuousnesse and greate number hereof Of the newe realme of Grenado VVIthin the yeere 1539. there tooke their flight together sundry tyrantes flocking from Venesuela from Saint Martha and from Carthagene to search for the Perous and there were also others which came downe from Peru it selfe to assay to make a glade farther into the countrey And they found from beyond S. Marthas and Carthagene 300. leagues vp into the countrey fertile landes and admirable prouinces full of infinite people kinde hearted like the rest and verye riche as well of golde as of precious stones which they call emeraldes Vnto the whiche Prouinces they gaue the name of Newe Grenado For because that the tyraunt whiche came first into this countrey was a grenado borne in our countrey And for because that diuers wicked men and cruell of those whiche roaued ouer this parte were not orious butchers making it as occupation to shedde mans blood hauing the practise and experience of the great fellonies aforementioned in moste part of the other regions of the Indies it is the cause why their diuelishe woorkes haue beene suche and in so great number whiche the circumstaunces doe make appeare so monstrous and odious that they haue farre exceeded the others yea all the gests that haue gone before done by others or by them selues in other Prouinces I will recounte some one or other of an infinite whereof they are giultie as doone by them within these three yeeres and whiche yet they cease not to committe That is that a Gouernour for as muche as hee whiche robbed and slewe in the newe Realme of Grenado woulde not admitte him for consorte with him to robbe and sley as did hee hee procured an enquirie and thereby euidence came in agaynst him with sundrie witnesses vpon the fact of his slaughters disorders and murders which hee had done and doeth as yet vnto this day the processe of which enquirie together with the euidences was read and is kept in the recordes of the counsell of the Indies The witnesses doe depose in the same enquirie that the saide whole realme was in peace the Indians seruing the Spaniards giuing them to eate of their laboure and labouring continually and manuring the grounde and bringing them muche golde and precious stones suche as are emerauldes and all that which they coulde and had the townes and the Lordeshippes and the people being distributed amongst the Spaniardes euery one his share which is all that they studie for for that that it is their meane way to attayne to their last end and scope to witte golde And all beeing subdued to their tyrannie and accustomed bondage the tyrant the principall Captayne which commaunded ouer that countrey tooke the Lorde and King of the countrey and detayned him prisoner sixe or seuen monethes exacting of him golde and emerauldes without cause or reason at all The sayde king who was named Bogata for feare which they put him in sayde that he woulde giue them an house full of gold hoping that hee shoulde escape out of the handes of him whiche tormented him And hee sent Indians which shoulde bringe him golde and by times one after an other they brought in a great quantitie of golde and precious stones But bec ause the king did not giue an whole house full of golde the Spaniardes did kill him sethence that hee did not accomplishe that which he had promised The tyraunt commaunding that this king shoulde bee arraigned before him selfe They sommon and accuse in this order the greatest king of all that countrey and the tyraunt giueth sentence condemning him to bee racked and tormented if hee doe not furnishe forth the house full of golde They giue him the torture and the strapado with cordes they flinge burnyng sewe● vppon his naked belly they lay on boltes vpon his feete which were fastened to one stake and gyrd his neck fast vnto another stake two men holding both his handes and so they set fire vnto his feete and the tyrant comming vp and downe nowe and then willeth him to haue his death giuen him by little and little if hee made not readie the golde Thus they dispatched and did to death that noble Lord in those torments

the edge of the sword They made certayne Gibbets long and low in such sort that the feete of the hanged on touched in a maner the ground euery one enough for thirteene in the honour and worship of our Sauiour and his twelue Apostles as they vsed to speake and setting to fire burned them all quicke that were fastened Vnto all others whom they vsed to take and reserue aliue cutting off their two handes as neere as might bee and so letting them hang they sayd Get you with these letters to carry tydinges to those which are fled by the mountaines They murdered commonly the Lordes and nobilitie on this fashion They made certayne gra●es of perches layed on pickforkes and made a litle fire vnderneath to the intent that by litle and litle yelling and despeiring in these tormentes they might giue vp the ghost One time I sawe foure or fiue of the principall Lordes roasted and broyled vppon these gradeirons Also I thinke that there were two or three of these gredirons garmshed with the lyke furniture and for that they cryed out pitioussy which thing troubled the Captayne that hee could not then sleepe hee commaunded to strangle them The Sergeant which was worse then the hangman that burned them I knowe his name and friendes in Seuill woulde not haue them strangled but him se●fe putting boulets in their mouthes to the ende y t they should not crie put to the fire vntil they were softly rosted after his desire I haue seene all the aforesayd things and others infinite And forasmuch as all the people which coulde flee hid themselues in the mountaynes and mounted on the toppes of them fled from the men so without all manhood emptie of all pitie behauing them as sauage beastes the slaughterers and deadly enemies of mankinde they taught their houndes fierce dogs to teare them in peeces at the first viewe and in the space that one might say a Credo assayled and deuoured an Indian as if it had been a swine These dogges wrought great destructions and slaughters And forasmuche as sometimes although seldom when the indians put to death some Spaniards vpon good right and lawe of due Iustice they made a Lawe betweene them that for one Spaniarde they had to stay an hundreth Indians The realmes which were in this Ile of Hispaniola THere were in this Ile Hispaniola fiue greate principall realmes and fiue very mightie Kinges vnto whome almost all the other Lordes obeyed whiche were without number There were also certaine Lordes of other seuerall Prouinces which did not acknowledge for soueraigne any of these Kinges One realme was named Magua which is as much to say as the kingdome of the playne This plaine is one of the most famous and most admirable thinges of all that is in the worlde For it contayneth fourescore leagues of grounde from the South sea vnto the North sea hauing in breadth fiue leagues and eight vnto tenne It hath in one side and other exceeding high mountaynes There entreth into it aboue thirtie thousande riuers and lakes of the which twelue are as great as Ebro and Duero and Guadalqueuir And all the riuers which issue out of a Mountayne which is towardes the West in number about fiue and twentie thousande are very rich of golde In the which mountayne or mountaynes is contayned the prouince of Cibao from whence the mines of Cibao take their names and from whence commeth the same exquisite golde and fiue of 24. karrets which is so renowined in these partes The King and Lorde of this realme was called Guarionex which had vnder him his Vassals and Lieges so great and mightie that euery one of them was able to set forth threescore thousande men of armes for the seruice of the king Guarionex Of the which Lordes I haue knowen some certayne This Guarionex was very obedient and vertuous naturally desirous of peace and well affectioned to the deuotion of the kings of Castile and his people gaue by his commaundement euery housekeeper a certayne kinde of Dromme full of golde but afterwardes being not able to fill the Dromme cutte it off by the middest and gaue the halfe thereof full For the Indians of that Ile had litle or none industrie or practise to gather or drawe golde out of the mines This Caceque presented vnto the king of Castile his seruice in causing to be manured all the landes from the Isavella where the Spanish first sited vnto the Towne of Saint Domingo which are fittie leagues large on condition that hee shoulde exact of them no golde for he sayd and hee sayde the trueth that his subiectes had not the skill to drawe it out As for the manuring which he sayde hee woulde procure to bee done I knowe that hee coulde haue done it very easely and with great readinesse and that it woulde haue been worth vnto the king euery yeere more then three Millions of Castillans besids that it would haue caused that at this houre there had bin aboue fiftie Cities greater then Seuille The payment that they made to this good king and Lord so gracious and so redowbted was to dishonour him in the person of his wife an euill Christian a Captayne rauishing her This king coulde haue attended the tune and opportunitie to auenge him selfe in leuying 〈…〉 drawe him selfe rather and onely 〈…〉 thus being banished from his real●e 〈…〉 of the Cignaios where there was a great Lorde his 〈◊〉 After that the Spaniardes were 〈◊〉 of his 〈◊〉 and ●ee coulde 〈…〉 himselfe 〈…〉 against the Lorde whiche had 〈…〉 and make great ●l●●ghters through the coun●●●y 〈◊〉 they goe 〈…〉 they found and tooke 〈…〉 a Shippe to carrie him to C●stile which shippe was lost uppon the sea and there were wi●h him drowned many Spaniardes and a great quantitie of Golde amongst the whiche also 〈◊〉 the great 〈◊〉 of Golde 〈…〉 weying three thousande 〈…〉 GOD to wreake 〈…〉 The other rea●●tie was called of Mar●●● where 〈◊〉 at this day the port at one of the ●oundes of the play●● 〈◊〉 the North and it is farre greater then the rea●●e of Portugall 〈◊〉 of golde and copper 〈…〉 The king was called 〈◊〉 which had 〈…〉 many great Lordes of the which I have knowen and seene sundrie 〈…〉 first the 〈◊〉 admyrall when he ●●co●ered the I●dies whom at that time that he discouered the Ile the said 〈…〉 so graciously bountifully 〈◊〉 withall the Spaniardes who were with him in 〈◊〉 him 〈…〉 which the Admirall was carried in that he ●●ulde not haue 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 made off in his owne countrey of his owne father This did I ●nderstand of the Admyrals owne mouth This king died in 〈◊〉 the slaughters and cruelties of the Spaniards through 〈…〉 ●●●yng destroyed and ●epri●ed of his 〈◊〉 And in the 〈◊〉 Lordes his subi●ctes died in the tyrannie and 〈◊〉 that shall be declared hereafter The thirde Realme and dominion was M●gu●●● a countrey also admirable very healthsome and very fertile where the best 〈…〉 The 〈…〉 was named 〈…〉

vnto his charge altogether vntruly that by his commaundement the people assembled The king answered that in all the countrey there mooued not a leafe of a tree without his good will that if there assembled any people they were to beleeue that it was by his commaundement and as touching himselfe that hee was prisoner and they might slay him All this not withstanding they condemned him to bee brent aliue but at the request of some certayne the Captayne caused him to bee strangled and beeing strangled hee was burned This king vnderstanding his sentence sayde Wherefore will you burne mee What trespasse haue I done yee Did not you promise mee to set mee at libertie if I gaue you the golde and haue I not performed more then I promised Seeinges you will needes haue it so sende mee to your king of Spayne speaking other thinges to the great confusion and detestation of the great wrongfulnesse that the Spaniardes vsed whom in the ende they burned Here let be considered the right and title of this warfare the imprisonment of this prince the sentence and the execution of his death and the conscience whereby they possesse great treasures as in deed they haue robbed in those realmes from this king and other seuerall lordes infinite As touching the innumerable cruelties and notable for y e mischiefes and enormities withall committed in the rooting out of those peoples by them who call them selues Christians I will here rehearse some certayne the which a fryer of S. Frauncis order sawe at the beginning and the same certified vnder his name and signe sending them into all those quarters and amongst others into this realme of Castile whereof I retayne a copie in my keeping in the which it is thus written I Frier Marke of the order of Saint Frauncis commissarie ouer the other friers of the same order in the prouinces of Peru and who was one of the first religious men w t entred into the saide prouinces with the Spaniardes doe say bearing true testimonie of certayne things the which I haue seene with mine eyes in that countrey namely concerning the entreating and conquestes made ouer the naturall inhabitaunts of the countrey first of all I am an eyed witnesse and haue certayn knoweledge that those Indians of Peru are a people the most kinde hearted that hath been seen among all the Indians beeing curteous in conuersation and friendly vnto the Spaniardes And I sawe them giue to the Spanishe in abundaunce golde siluer and precious stones and all that was asked them and that they had doing them all kinde of seruice lawfull And the Indians neuer yee ded foorth to warre but kept them in peace so long time as they gaue them not occasion by their euill entreating of them and their cruelties but contrariwise receiued them with all amitie and honour in their boroughes in giuing them to eate and as many slaues mankinde and women kind as they demaunded for their seruice Item I am witnesse that without that the Indians gaue occasion the Spanish as soone as they were entred the lande after that the greate Cacike Atabaliba had giuen to the Spanish more then two millions of gold and had put into their power the whole countrie without resistance incontinent they burned the said Atabaliba which was Lord of the whole countrie And after him they brent his captayne generall Cochilimaca who had come to the gouernour in peace with other Lords In the like maner also a fewe dayes after they burned a great Lorde named Chamba of the prouince of Quito without any fault at all and without hauing giuen the least occasion that might bee In like maner they burned vniustly Schappera Lorde of the Canaries Also they brent the feete of Aluis a great Lorde amongst all those which were in Quito and caused him to endure sundrie other torments to make him tell where was the gold of Atabaliba of the whiche treasure as it appeared hee knewe nothing Also they brent in Quito Cosopanga who was gouernour of all the prouinces of Quito which vpon the request to him first made by Sebastian of Bernalcasar Captayne vnder the gouernour was come to them in peace and onely because hee gaue them not golde so much as hee demaunded of him their burned him with very many other Caciks and principall Lorde And for ought that I can vnderstand the intente of the Spaniards was that there shoulde not bee lefte aliue one Lorde in the whole countrey Item I certifie that the Spaniardes caused to assemble a great number of the Indians and socked them vp in three great housen as many as coulde be pored in and setting to fire they burned them all without that they had done the least thing that might bee or had giuen to the Spanishe the least occasion thereof whatsoeuer And it came to passe that a priest who is named Ocanna drewe a young boy out of the fire in the which hee burned which perceiuing an other Spaniarde tooke from out of his handes the boy and flunge him into the middest of the flames where he was resolued into ashes together with others The which Spaniarde returning the same day to the campe fell downe dead suddenly and mine aduice was hee should not bee buried Item I affirme to haue seene with myne owne eyes that the Spanishe haue cutte the handes the noses and the eares of the Indians and of their women without any other cause or purpose saue onely that so it came into their fantasie and that in so many places and quarters that it shoulde bee too tedious to rehearse And I haue seene that the Spanishe haue made their Mastiues runne vpon the Indians to rent them in pieces And moreouer I haue seene by them brent so many houses and whole borughes or towneshippes that I am not able to tell the number Also it is true that they violently plucked the little infants from the mothers dugges and taking them by the armes did throwe them from them as farre as they coulde Together with other enormities and cruelties without any cause whiche gaue me astonishment to behold them and woulde be to long to rehearse them Item I sawe when as they sent for the Cacikes and other principall Indians to come see them in peace and assuraunce to them made promising them safe conduct and incontinent as they were arriued they burned them They burned two whiles I was present the one in Andon and the other in Tumbala and I coulde neuer preuaile with them to haue them deliuered from burning preached I vnto them neuer so muche And in God and my conscience for ought that euer I coulde perceiue the Indians of Peru neuer lift themselues vp nor neuer rebelled for any other cause but for the euill entreating of the other side as is manifest vnto euery one and for iust cause the Spaniardes destroying them tyrannously against all reason and iustice with al their countrey working vpon them so many outrages that they were determined to die rather then

naked as they were to kill them if they did stirre and then bound them And those which fled they hewed them in peeces Howbeit som of the Indies which fled both of the hurt not hurt with others that had not come within the house toke their bowes arrowes and assembled themselues in another house about an hundred or two hundred persons And as they kept the gate the Spaniards set fire on the house burned them aliue After with their purchase which might bee of an hundred or fourescore persons of them which they had bounde they get them to the Ile of saint Iohn where they solde the one moitie and thence to the Ile of Hispaniola where they solde the other moity As I reprehended the captaine for this notable treason at the same time and at the same Ile of Saint Iohn hee made an answere Syr quiet your selfe for that matter So haue they commanded me to doe and giuen me instruction which sent mee that if I coulde not take them by warre I shoulde take them vnder countenance and colour of peace And in truth the Captaine tolde mee that in all his life he neuer had founde father nor mother but in this Isle of the Trinitie in respect of the friendly courtesies the Indians had shewed him And this hee spake to his owne greater cōfusion and aggrauating for the surcharge of his owne offences They haue done other things semblable vnto these infinite in this firme lande apprehending the poore people contrary to the safe conduct promised Let it now be weighed what maner of doings these are and whether the Indians in this wise taken might iustly be made slaues At another time the religious Fryars of saint Dominicks order being determined to goe preache and to conuert those nations who had not the light of the doctrine for to saue their souls as is the case at this day of the Indians they sent a religious man licentiate in diuinitie a mā vertuous holy with a laie man of his order his companion to the ende hee shoulde take a viewe of the Countrie to trauerse acquaintance with that people and search out a place commodious to builde monasteries The religious being arriued they receiued them as Angelles commen from heauen and hearde with great affection attention and willingnesse such wordes as the religious at that time were able to giue them to vnderstand more by signes thē otherwise for they knew not the tongue It came to passe that there arriued there another ship after that the ship in whiche the religious men came was departed thence and the Spanish in this vessell keeping their diuelish custome by suttelty without the knowledge of the religious carried away the Lord of the countrie called Alfonso were it y ● Friars had giuē him this name or els others For the Indians loue desire to beare the name of y e Christiās desiring incōtinēt y t it may be giuen them euen before they know any thing y t they may be baptized They induced fraudilētly this Don Alfonso to come aboord their ship with the lady his wife other persōs making sēblāce to go about to feast thē In the end there entred seuenteene persons together w t the Lord and his Lady the Lord trusting that the religious persons being entred into his Countrie woulde keepe the Spaniardes from doyng any wrong for otherwise hee woulde neuer haue put himselfe in the handes of the Spanish The Indians therfore thus being in the ship the traiterous Spaniards hoysed sayles and away they went to Hispaniola with them there selling them for slaues All the Countrie seeing that their Lorde soueraigne Lady were carried away they run to the religious men purposing to kill them The poore men seeing so great a villany were of themselues at apoint to dye for sorrowe and it is well to be beleeued of them that they woulde rather haue gyuen their lyues in the quarrell then to haue accorded that anye such iniury should haue been committed specially considering that was enough to hinder the course begun so as those poore Heathens should neuer neither heare nor hearing beleeue the worde of God Howbeit they appeased the Indians in the best maner they could saying that they woulde write to them at Hispaniola by the first ship that went would take suche care and order in the matter that their soueraigne should be restored them againe with those that were in his companie God sent immediately vpon a ship thither no doubt for the greater confirmation of the damnation of those which there gouerned and they wrote to the Spanishe religious men that were in the Isle of Hispaniola They cry out and call heauen and earth to witnesse against them both first sundrie times after But the Iudges of the audience would neuer giue them audience to do thē iustice for because thēselues had part in the bootie of the Indiās which the tyrants had so against all right reason takē The two religious men which had promised the Indians of the countrie that their Lord Don Alfonso with others shold come home with the rest within foure moneths seeing y t they came not neither in 4. nor 8. made thēselues redy to the death to giue their life whiche they had gaged before they came out of Spaine if neede shoulde bee and in that sort the Indians tooke vengeance on thē in killing them iustly notwithstanding that they were innocent for because that they thought that the religious men had beene the occasion of this treason and for because they sawe that that whiche they had certified and promised them tooke not effect to witte that within foure monethes they shoulde haue home their Lorde and for that at that time they knewe not and nowe as yet they knowe not in that countrey that there is any difference betweene the religious well disposed and the tyrants theeues and robbers the Spaniardes Those religious men therefore right happie suffered vniustly and for the wrong so suffered there is no doubt but they are very martyres and doe raigne at this day with God in the kingdome of heauen in blisse who woulde that by their obedience they shoulde be sent thither and should haue an entent to preache and spredde the holy faith and saue all those soules and suffer those afflictions and death it selfe when it shoulde be presented vnto them for Iesus Christe his sake crucified An other time by reason of the great tyrannies and execrable actes of the cursed ones bearing the name of Christians the Indians slewe other two religious men of Saint Dominickes order and one of Saint Frauncis Whereof I ran be a good witnesse for that I escaped at the time miraculously from the same death of the which it shoulde be a harde matter to entreat and woulde bee to amase men by reason of the grieuousnes and horiblenesse of the case Wherefore I will not lay it abroad for being too tedious vntil his tyme and at the day