[83]: Charlevoix, in his History of San Domingo (lib. iii. p. 199), states that the suit against Columbus was conducted in writing; that written charges were sent to him, to which he replied in the same way. This is contrary to the statements of Las Casas, Herrera, and Fernando Columbus. The admiral himself, in his letter to the nurse of Prince Juan, after relating the manner in which he and his brothers had been thrown into irons, and confined separately, without being visited by Bobadilla, or permitted to see any other persons, expressly adds, "I make oath that I do not know for what I am imprisoned." Again, in a letter written some time afterwards from Jamaica, he says, "I was taken and thrown with two of my brothers in a ship, loaded with irons, with little clothing and much ill-treatment, without being summoned or convicted by justice."
[84]: Herrera, decad. i. lib. iv. cap. 10. Oviedo, Cronica. lib. iii. cap. 6.
[85]: Muñoz, Hist. N. Mundo, part unpublished.
[86]: Hist. del Almirante, cap. 86.
[87]: Las Casas, Hist. Ind., lib. i. cap. 180, MS.
[88]: Las Casas, Hist. Ind., lib. i. cap. 180, MS.
[89]: Hist. del Almirante, cap. 86.
[90]: Las Casas, Hist. Ind., lib. i. cap. 182.
[91]: Oviedo, Cronica, lib. iii. cap. 6.
[92]: Las Casas, lib. i. cap. 182. Two thousand ducats, or two thousand eight hundred and forty-six dollars, equivalent to eight thousand five hundred and thirty-eight dollars of the present day.