The pleasant historie of the conquest of the West India, : now called New Spaine. atchieued by the most woorthie prince Hernando Cortes ... (1596)
López de Gómara, Francisco, 1511-1564, Ternaux-Compans, Henri, 1807-1864. fmo RPJCB · London : Printed by Thomas Creede · leaf 382
The Conqueft of How the Chencerie was firſt placed in Mexico, And certaine diueliſh pretences wrought 7 i againſt Cortes. … among the which was one, wherein he afirmedthat Cor. tez had as many barres of golde and ſiluer, as in Biſcay were barres of pꝛon, and offered to pꝛoue the ſame: but als though it was not true, pet it was ſulpicidus. Pe alſo ears had plucked out one of his exes, and killed with poiſd the Aicentiat…
Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547 · Indian linguistics · Imprint 1596
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