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Show IE me Cd Ee ee Cet ee he Bed Bed ak eee 124 THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO —s Pee a Bed Saat 7 etS dh tadal akend heha et sel Fadl A Sad ete te el nat eT tthe techies eG ee eer ee ee rd ee ee ee ee ee ree es out immense effort and expense to the royal exchecquer; and this necessitates beginning the restoration with urgency at this time, especially when we have the experience we are now going through of the plot executed by the Apostates of the Zufi Province in killing the three Spaniards who were there associated with the Apostate Rebels of the Province of Zufii, the latter more emboldened because of the entrance made by the said governor [Cubero] tarrying selfishly and ostentatiously, seeing with his own eyes that the army of his Majesty had gone on with all haste, and also by the declaration made by Sebastian Rodriguez, the drummer, in virtue of the information from an Indian who was at his house in the middle of the night, in order that the steps and precautions necessary to a business of such importance might be undertaken; the Conspiracy entered into to destroy this said Province with the counsel and assistance of the heathen Apaches, which, united in surrounding this said Province, will be apparent because the said governor, Dn Pedro Rodriguez Cubero knew all this and had the Indians taken who are now in prison in the said Valla —what motives he had to desert the said Province leaving on Shrove Tuesday, taking the manifest risk of losing everything; and it was also seen that two heathen Apaches had come to ask of the Lieutena nt-general, Roque Madrid, for the said prisoners, when the declarati on made by the said Sebastian Rodriguez was true; and this said Cabildo of Justice and Administration also declared that the said Governor D. Pedro Rodriguez Cubero, who, in all of the time of his government, was solely [occupied] 10 drinking and writing papers with no reason whatever [but with great apparent service to his majesty and zealous in his royal service, Imagining things he had no business t0 [imagine], ascribing faults and crimes to those who had not committed them, like that which he attributed to the said Sr. Marqués [De Vargas], after having been given his place, and this said Cabildo is sure of the high sense of duty of the said Sr. Marqués in the interest of all that was and has been under his charge ; this has been evident it is neces- e ek 4 ee eee dtd Sea eee a ee ee ee Sary to say though the said Sr. Marqués asks it in the said preceding paper, it is our duty to give him fully and completely the satisfaction he demands and should have, for the false charges unjustly made against him outside the term of his ineumbency, since the same were made up, hatched and invented by the said D. Pedro Rodriguez Cubero and his secretary, Domingo de la Barreda, and return ing to the text of the said paper, presented by the said Sr. THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO 125 Marqués, we will say that the Town of Galisteo was left peopled by the said Sr. Marqués with the Indians of the Thano nation and served as a rampart to this said town and to the Village of Pecos and the said governor ordered it abandoned, notwithstanding the representation and expostulation made to him by this said Cabildo that such depopulation should not be carried out, because it would result in giving the said heathen Apaches the greatest boldness, affording them a door by which to enter this Town and the said village of the Pecos and a continuing of the constant murders and thefts which they have committed, the number of which is omitted because there is not enough room in this paper, for it was necessary to make it voluminous ; and notwithstanding our said remonstrances he persisted 1n its abandonment; and in regard to the point that the said governor annulled and broke up the titles and grants of land given by the said Sr. Marqués as conqueror to the inhab- itants of this said Province, it is a matter of public notor1- ety, although this said Cabildo did not witness 1t [it is] the cause which has started the many suits which the said att Marqués did not wish to take cognizance of and on : what took place at the time of his residency as well as : . of the said governor, all of which contained herein 1s _ ne and truth, as [are] all the other points which are lon baile in the said paper of the said Sr. Marqués; by virtue = which we also certify to His Majesty, as aforesaid, that it may reach his Royal notice of the form and manner 10 which the said Sr. Marqués delivered the said two villages in the said year ninety-seven and how the said ao delivered them ruined and desolate, and the Province wit all its warlike ramparts in dire dread of a general vo acy of the arrogant Indians of this Province, the insults un- ek fee justly offered to the said Sr. Marqués by the false made against him, the imprisonment of his pies Beet lasted two years and [some] months, which also we dec ar for the relief of our consciences, and although on our par d there may be presented many petitions against Sefior Governor and Marqués by our Procurador, ee con ge Garzia Jurado, they have been for the reason that . 2 fill a publie duty toward the said [Marqués] as 7 ‘caked the said Governor; appearances were that what he as a was just, assuming the mask of the exchecquer often a . ing on the said exchecquer, and this said a paper, as it [the cabildo] knows nothing about in ae Das ters, it follows his suggestions and upon that have ies oe many money losses, as well as those of honor as 1) a |