Note XVIII‑1 — Chapter XVIII · PROGRESS OF AFFAIRS IN GUATEMALA. 1541-1550.
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Viceroy Mendoza addressed letters to the bishop of Guatemala, Francisco de la Cueva, and the cabildo respectively. In that sent to the municipality he says: 'You will learn that God was pleased to take to his glory the adelantado Alvarado.' Arévalo, Col. Doc. Antig., 179-80. Tello states that Governor Oñate also send word of Alvarado's death to Guatemala. Hist. N. Gal., 390-7. According to Remesal the first reports were generally discredited, and it was not until the viceroy's letters arrived that any manifestation of sorrow was shown. Hist. Chyapa, 165 et seq. A cabildo was held on the 29th of August.