Spanish archives of New Mexico, volume 2

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158 THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW THE SPANISH ARCHIVES MEXICO ‘‘Before me: ** XPTTOBAL DE GONGORA, ‘‘Notary to the Council. oo OF MiguEL Martin. | hen, oti immediately, I had a é qT: in the vies i of God, our Lord, and the sign ross, Which having taken ; he promised to : c 4 pnd . uth in whatever he might know or that might be Ss his ee nee if eee Thursday or Palm Sunday he took ee Ore Met Pt hail teak Ne Sok es Oak le ominguez, to the church in the New Town eet 1e should of Santa Sse thes a speak and declare it; the declarant ey nursday was the day on which he took his he teh W oo the said church and not Palm Sunday aaa oe It 1s true that his wife, having come out day, met him by chance and gave him a bl church on this Saying ‘Curse you, it is your fault that y ow in the face, and that this decme’ hates mother-in-law 5 larant re i , Saying: “Who is my mother-in-law?’ and his told hi wife Fas ince — [daughter] of Zhiconqueto and this ‘Don’t be a fool, what was not in your — year was nak ie a your hurt,’ he should speak and declare it; this declar that church his vee a it is true that coming out of the those words that she fede eee him a push and said hig oS that this declarant replied, Don’t be ieaiciis cei and his is i eal if it is true that he had criminal intimacy with foo marriage, his he sl ates apres of Zhiconqueto, before or after said ° speak and declare it; declarant that he eerie ab oO told nothing else eccurred beyond ae such intimacy and that what had been gn apne in this respect is false. ies he aac ae why he denies this when in a conversation pe Rael, the youth who is a cousin of his wife, and ae a befo s 1s brother-in-law Tom4s Giron and his ominguez, he confessed that he had had criminal sittin with two Indian women of the Village of acy witl and Taos when they w : ia eae of the village of San Juan, and that he confessed to his said wife, Leonor Dominguez aa the daughter of the said Biecha: 1t was the Indian who is why he denied that he y queto; why did he say that and wedding, let him Speak and anita married soon after the oo declarant said that all this which 1s asked him is Of of no use and is malicious and trumped upup an a2 that neith er the one nor the other happened; and this is his answer. OF NEW MEXICO 109 Asked why when his wife had asked him to take ‘‘Ath. her to the house of Catherina Lujan to get some lime he took her to the house of the Indian Zhiconqueto, and afterwards the said Leonor Dominguez, seeing the deception, he smiled, as if admitting his malicious intent, let him speak and declare; declarant said that it is false that his wife said that to him outside the house of Catherina Lujan; she had before, but after that she asked to be taken to the house of Catarina, wife of Zhiconqueto, where Martin Fernandez was when they arrived, and he saw everything and knows ; what passed there which was not as his said wife declares this is his answer. Asked if it is true that while he was in the house “Sth he the animal on which he came got away and therefore went off to catch it, let him speak and declare: declarant animal said that it is false; it did not happen, because the when tied found he which horse a was came he on which this he went down where he had left him on going up; and is his answer. Asked how he denies all this when having been to ‘6th. with the said village of San Juan, he returned to his house could his arms and hands swollen and so disabled that he not eat with his hands; and he said it came from having fallen down the stairs at the time he was trying to mount to 1nto the house of the said Indian woman who had tried and dejure him because he had married, let him speak home clare; declarant said that it is true that he returned but not for as stated, with his wrists swollen and crippled and that a the reason given, nor did he say any such thing him at with was Antonito, named -law, youth, his brother-in answer. his is this and so; not was it that that time and saw why, having said that it was true that the said ‘Asked he Indian woman was his mistress, he afterwards said that ; and declare was joking and now denies it; let him speak anyhe never said declarant said that it is false and that . answer. his is this and sort, that of thing “7th. Maria aw, Asked if he does not know that his sister-in-lhad Lujan, wife of his brother, Sebastian Martin, women of the been bewitched, it is suspected, by the Indian same village of San Juan, let him speak and declare; dec- larant said that he knew nothing about it having been away him; at that time and when he came back nothing was told and again him to put were questions other although and he knew nothing more again concerning things, he said having been read than he had declared; and his declaration that it to him, he said he had nothing to add nor to alter;