[XVIII‑19] Bernal Diaz, Hist. Verdad. (ed. Paris, 1837), iv. 467.
[XVIII‑20] None dared to occupy the few houses left, and a large barrack was constructed on the outskirts of the town as a common dwelling-place. Pacheco and Cárdenas, Col. Doc., iii. 386.
[XVIII‑21] Remesal, Hist. Chyapa, 366.
[XVIII‑22] Torquemada attended one of these processions. He writes: 'iban cada Año, en el mismo Dia, que le corresponde al de el anegamiento (y Yo me hallé én ella vn Año ...) pidiendo á Dios seguridad en la segunda Poblacion, y perdon de averle ofendido.' i. 327.
[XVIII‑23] Soon after the death of Bishop Marroquin the custom was discontinued, although he left a fund to support its observance. Bernal Diaz, Hist. Verdad., (ed. Paris, 1837), iv. 468-9. It was established at a meeting of the cabildo on September 9, 1542. Remesal, Hist. Chyapa, 559. After the old church was pulled down the procession marched to the Franciscan convent in the old city. Vazquez, Chron. de Gvat., 164-6.
[XVIII‑24] Id., 366; Escamilla, Noticias Curiosas de Guat., MS., 1.
[XVIII‑25] These were the oidor Maldonado, Juan de Alvarado, a nephew of the deceased adelantado, and Juan Chavez, a resident of Santiago. Marroquin, in Pacheco and Cárdenas, Col. Doc., xiii. 271. Juan de Alvarado was a nephew of the adelantado, and according to Bernal Diaz went to Spain with Pedro, a natural son of the conqueror, neither being ever heard of afterward. Hist. Verdad., 237.
[XVIII‑26] He recommends as honorable gentlemen, Sancho de Baraona, a conquistador, Hernan Mendez, and Doctor Blas Cota. Id., 376-7. Consult also Remesal, Hist. Chyapa, 58-9, 365.
[XVIII‑27] 'Hizo mucho daño en las tiendas y mercaderias.' Pacheco and Cárdenas, Col. Doc., iii. 388. The cabildo in a letter to the king, dated September 10, 1543, says, 'perdimos casi todos lo que teníamos.' Arévalo, Col. Doc. Antig., 20.
[XVIII‑28] It will be remembered that Alvarado appointed Marroquin his executor. The bishop justifies this proceeding by the necessity of the occasion. Had the distribution not been made he assures the king that two thirds of the Spaniards would have left, but he adds that, nevertheless, the greater portion of Alvarado's Indians had been reserved to his children. Id., xiii. 268-9.