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Show 162 THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO an co : ; poke Just as she had s of this said Tow hae afi davik avit nos las declared before the Rivas, examining justice wn, and having charged her with saying in that it was the Sunday of the Resurrection ee aoe nada that these things hapsald that through gh herher f fear of justi justic rar Ss else she had been frightened i trom malicious intent; and this is her ans- er toe ta er ae LJ = or) i a Ppa Sit he :: a ; oe ape THE SPANISH ARCHIVES ie idcco ae —— se od —" Seed as tel ae a mane& from what motiv: e she said she would see nan, Leonor Dominguez, and that perha ps she could oe giv . ae some remedy, a declarant said that because of a ka a he oe nea in her it seemed to her it would be that God there might Te suai be some other trouble had sent upon her; that she believed herself bewitel . the pares ever sickness 1 Spanish women said what- nad it was that [ they were bewitched], and that this j a it and no oe oe reason and motive she had in saying she affirms an re ared in the preceding declarations; which | although on this matter different questions were put what she had d : ler, She said she knew nothing more than that she is of t] certifies under the oath she has taken; and knowing how | - age stated ; she does not sign because of not [to write]. present. I, the said judge, with the notary ae JUAN DE URIBARRI : me ‘‘Bef ore ec ¢ Sp tORAL DE Goncora, s . Catarina R ; having seen and certified that self with the? bas crippled legs and could not move herBaed F orders a t of the irons with which she was conturned to the ho ler to be freed from them, and thus re- ing her there hgh of the Captain Antonio y Sassi, plac- proceedings; thus order a convenience, pending further ed and signed with the said notary of the council. JUAN DE URIBARRI. ‘‘Before me: 4 e XPTTOBAL DE GONGORA Notary to the Council. Pi ea eg TRANSMITTAL, Juan de a. foe Ty sengento appertaining the Judge in eethisandcase,yeas, having issued theaT writs those cited, of San Juan, touching their having done her injury by diabolic art, and having considered the DECREE AND Writ. j Immed iately, 163 Salazar y Villa, Knight of the Order of Santiago, Marqués de la Pefiuela, Governor and Captain General of this jurisdiction and the Provinces of New Mexico and custodian of its forces and forts, by virtue and order of which I transmit the said proceedings to his Tribunal, that his lordship, justified therein by his zeal, may declare and pronounce sentence, as seems to him best, which will be as always, the wisest and in due legal form; In witness whereof this last said decree of transmittal is signed with the notary to the council, to whom order is given to send and place it in the hands of the said Seor Marqués, Governor and Captain General ; these the said proceedings ut supra. ‘¢ JUAN DE URIBARRI. ‘Before me: XPTTOBAL DE GONGORA, Notary to the Cabildo. ‘At the Villa of Santa Fe, on the thirty-first day of the month of May, seventeen hundred and eight, I, the Admiral, Don Joseph Chacén Medina Salazar y Villa, Knight of the Order of Santiago, Marqués de la Pefiuela Governor and Captain General of this District and the Provinces of New in Mexico, having seen and read the declarations certified these proceedings, and the complaint lodged by Dofia Leonor Dominguez against Catharina Rosa, wife of Zhiconqueto, and Angelina Pumazo, his daughter, and Catharina Lujan, Indians of the Village otary to the Cabildo. Then, » OF NEW MEXICO al] ereto and uly decree issued h Se sortPliance affirmed the: declaredoy ‘i with Joseph y Senor Admiral Don and obedience Chacén Medina to Me such matters declarations thereupon with the attention that the said Dona require, and the information submitted by of] Martin FerLeonor Dominguez, together with [that wife of Pedro. de the and Contreras, de Casilda nandez, Avila, and the husband of the Complainant, all agreed m the aforesaid, in setting forth that it is false, futile and redespicable, by reason of which and of the good effects sulting from the said proceedings, I must declare, as I do to by these presents declare, the said three Indian women be free as regards tions contained that this decree above mentioned interior and of the [matter] produced in the declara- in the preceding pages, and be it known and sentence [judgment] in favor of the is signed together with my secretary of the war, who is ordered to make it publicly on, known in their persons and certify to its proclamati PENUELA. dated as above. ‘“Before me: ‘GASPAR DE Los RiI0s, EL Marquis DE LA ‘Secretary of the Interior and of War. |