[175.] “On account of ashes,” Ruma chah; Brasseur translates this expression, “á cause de billevesées.”
[176.] Juan Rogel was one of the “oidores.”
[177.] Alonso Lopez Cerrato entered upon his duties in Guatemala May 26, 1548.
[179.] Pedro Ramirez de Quiñones. The actor in this attempt was one of the oidores. Bancroft, who refers to the quarrel between the Governor and Bishop Marroquin, does not satisfactorily explain it. See his Hist. of Central America, Vol. II, pp. 326-7. On Ramirez, see Juarros, Hist. Guatemala, Tom. I, pp. 235-6.
[181.] Antonio Rodriguez de Quezada took possession of the Presidency of Guatemala Jan. 14, 1554, and retained it till his death in November, 1558; he was succeeded by Pedro Ramirez. (Comp. Juarros, I, p. 255, with Bancroft, Hist. Cent. Am., II, p. 358, who says 1555.)
[181.] “There was but little between them,” Xa
a halal qui cohol ahauh; this expression is not clear. There appears to be considerable vagueness in the writer’s chronology in this passage.
“He did not condemn any one, because he had no time,” Mani xuban ru
