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Show See ated er en 3 ee ee ee ee Aa ‘ aed ee i SP rae eRe ENT hearar 7 oe ga pe nr dentech naira thh Sef a Fhe et ee Bes pee Be ee ear eck) 5g THE SPANISH ARCHIVES THE SPANISH ARCHIVES MEXICO OF NEW Bn eee Bo Se he ae he mr ses ROR Rat nT ane bee Ch hrd a ts on aks 7be eeha | eee 7 am LILI ee SNS eer SOLUTES Sires a a Pe at ce - the governor and captain general, together with the witnesses and interpreters, who witnessed all before me the secretary. ‘Don ANTONIO DE OTERMiN, JUAN LUCERO DE Gopoy, JUAN Rum pe Caceres, Pepro pE Letva, NicoLas RODRIGUEZ, Luis GRANILLO, SEBASTIAN DE HerrerA, JUAN DE LUNA y PApImLua. ‘‘Before me: ‘CWRANCISCO XAVIER. ‘Secretary of Government and War.’’ ‘At this the said camping place and plaza de armas of this army, on the nineteenth day of December, one thousand six hundred and eighty-one, in the inquiries of this case, his Excellency caused to appear before him an Indian held as a prisoner, named José, versed in the Castillian language, a servant of the sargento mayor Sebastian de Herran away rera, who and joined in the who, the apostates, eo pe ee = presence of the interpreters and accompanying witnesses, being sworn by his Excellency, in due form of law, for God Cd Ppa our Lord and by the sign of the cross, under which charge, 5: and having been absolved, he promised to state the truth to the best of his information and as interrogated, and having been made to understand the gravity of an oath, and ed Lted ae et asked why he ran away from the house of his master, the said sargento mayor Sebastian de Herrera, and came to live ar with the traitorous apostate Indians of New Mexico, with ees whom he had been up to the present when he had come with ‘That the reason he came away was because he us, hesaid: and a companion named Domingo had been suffering from hunger in the captured town and that said companion disturbed this affiant, urging him to come to New for a while to acquaint themselves with ee te a Indians and to advise the Spaniards they did not come with the intention with the revolting apostate traitors, rival, killed his companion, the said son that the Pecos Indians had seen ws! a ; id ea aa 1 . Sod eePs et eo ee ee ee < ed ee ee ee ry ’ ee me - a et 4 — a by the side of the Spaniards; the things Mexico of the of any treason; that of remaining forever who, after their arDomingo for the reahim fight in the Villa and that for the reason that he had lost his companion he had remained until now he saw the Spaniards and came to them saying ; not to be careless about their horses, because he had heard the traitors OF NEW MEXICO 97 nt crimes, majesty and for the commission of so many differe ‘There were and who were the instigators of the revolt? and the other two Indians of San Juan, one named Popé and another Taqu, and another from Taos named Xaca knows these from San Ildefonso named Francisco; that he the illwere given causes the that and , leaders were the hands of the present treatment and offenses received at the de campo secretary, Francisco Xavier and the maestre Don Luis de Alonso Garcia, and the sargentos mayores beat them and Quintana and ‘Diego Lopez, because they them work made and ngs, belongi their them from took ed. answer he this and them;’ pay and did not asked for what known reason or whether it has ‘‘Being has been there, come to his knowedge during the time he s and things why the apostates burned the images, churche them, killing of s trophie making and g scoffin cult, of divine did, he they acts other the ting commit and the priests stat- ly ‘That he knows and he heard it general answered: besieged by them, they ed that while the Villa was being of The God burned the church and cried in loud voices: and the Holy the Spaniards is dead; he was the father pieces of rotten Mary his mother; and the saints were so they ordered and ; lived alone god their wood; and that and rosaries; the burning of all the temples, images, crosses all bathed themselves and, upon finishing this work, they the water of bapin the rivers, declaring that this purged and in the tism, and built their temples on the four sides center of the where they plaza with offered up small flour, enclosures plumes and of piled rocks, seeds of the superstitious rites, g1Vmaguey, corn and tobacco and other should that henceforth they ing the children to understand captains and leaders comall do likewise; and that the of Jesus and manded that at no place should the names given them in names the discard to and spoken, be Mary the wives God had given holy baptism, to separate fromto take unto themselves such them in holy matrimony and at immediately. others as they desired; and that he saw_th they ordered.their upon the departure of the Spaniards. houses where. they estufas_constructed, these being the the entire kingdom the hout practice idolatry, and throug e Cachina was danced, for that purpos having made many And this he answer- say that even though they might make peace with the Span- devil.’ masks with the likeness of the iards, they would come at night to run away their horses : and this he answered to this question. ‘Being asked what causes or motives the revolting Indians had for failing in the law of God, in obedience to his disthe dispositions or matters ‘‘Being asked what were touching the return of the tes, aposta said the by cussed living suited them, Spaniards, and how the life they were ed to the question. © "ng cys nnn gp |
