e for a Sum of Gold. And did I not give you a far larger quantity
than I promised? But if it is your pleasure so to do, send me to your
King of _Spain_, and thus using many words to the same purpose, tending
to the Confusion and Detestation of the _Spanish_ Injustice, he was
burnt to Death. And here let us take into serious Consideration the
Right and Title they had to make this War, the Captivity, Sentence, and
Execution of this Prince, and the Conscience wherewith these Tyrants
have possessed themselves of vast Treasures, which they have
surreptitiously and fraudulently taken away from this King, and a great
many more of the Rulers of these Kingdoms. But as to the great number
of their Enormities committed by those who stile themselves Christians
in order to the extirpation of this People, I will hear repeat some of
them, which in the very beginning were seen by a _Franciscan_,
confirm'd by his own Letters, and signed with his Hand and Seal,
sending some of them to the _Perusian_ Provinces, and others to the
Kingdom of _Castile_: A Copy whereof I have in my Custody, Signed with
his Hand, as I said before; the Contents whereof follow.

I Frier _Marcus de Xlicia_, of the _Franciscan_ Order, and Praefect
of the whole Fraternity residing in the Perusian Provinces, one of
the first among the Religious, who arriv'd with the _Spaniards_
in these parts. I decalre with incontrovertible and undeniable
Testimony, those Transactions, which I saw with my own Eyes, and
particularly such as relate to the usage of the Inhabitants of this
Region. In the first place I was an Eye-Witness, and am certainly
assur'd, that these _Perusians_ are a People, who transcend all other
_Indians_ in Meekness, Clemency, and Love to _Spaniards_; and I have
seen the _Indians_ bestow very liberally on them Gold, Silver, and
Jewels, being very serviceable to them many other wayes. Nor did the
_Indians_ ever betake themselves to their Arms in an Hostile manner,
till by infinite Injuries and Cruelties they were compell'd thereunto:
For on the contrary, they gave the _Spaniards_ an amicable and
honourable Reception in all their Towns, and furnished them with
Provisions, and as many Male and Female Servants as they required.

I can also farther testifie, that the _Spaniards_, without the least
provocation on their part, as soon as they entred upon these
Territories, did burn at the Stake their most Potent _Caciq Ataliba_,
Prince o