capacious place, and that there it
should be signified unto them, whosoever desired to be set at Liberty
should redeem himself at the Will and Pleasure (as to price;) of the
unjust Governour, or at a certain rate imposed upon himself, his wife
and every Childs head; and to expedite the business prohibited the
administration or allowance of any food to them, till the Gold required
for Redemption was paid down to the utmost grain. Several of them sent
home to discharge the demanded price of their Redemption, and procur'd
their Freedom, as well as they could by one means or other, that so
they might return to their Livelihood and profession, but not long
after he sent other Rogues and Robbers among them to enslave those that
were Redeemed.

To the same Gaol they are brought a second time, being instigated or
rather constrained to a speedy Redemption by hunger and thirst; Thus
many of them were twice or thrice taken, captiv'd and Redeedmed; but
some who were not capable of Depositing such a sum, perished there.
Farthermore this Tyrant was big with an itching desire after the
discovery of the _Perusian_ Mines, which he did accomplish. Nay should
I enumerate the particular Cruelties, Slaughters, _&c._ committed by
him though my discourse would not in the least be contrariant to the
Truth, yet it would not be beleived and only stupifie and amaze the
Reader.

This course the other Tyrants took who set sail from _Venecuela_ and
St. _Martha_ (with the same Resolution of detecting the _Perusian_
Golden, Consecrated Houses as them they esteemed) who found the
fruitful Region so desolate, deserted, and wasted by Fire and Sword,
that those Cruel Tyrants themselves were smitten with wonder and
astonishment at the traces and ruins of such prodigious Devastations.

All these things and many more were prov'd by Witness in the _Indian_
Exchequer, and the Records of their Testimony were entred in that
Court, though these execrable Tyrants burnt many of them that there
might be little or nothing prov'd as a cause of those great
Devastations and Evils perpetrated by them. For the Minister of
Justice who have hitherto lived in _India_, through their obscure and
damnable blindness, were not much sollicitous about the punishment of
the Crimes and Butcheries which have been and are still committed by
these Tyrants, only they may say possibly because such a one, and such
a one hath wickedly and barbarously dealt with the _Indians_, that is