Note XVIII‑28 — Chapter XVIII · PROGRESS OF AFFAIRS IN GUATEMALA. 1541-1550.
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It will be remembered that Alvarado appointed Marroquin his executor. The bishop justifies this proceeding by the necessity of the occasion. Had the distribution not been made he assures the king that two thirds of the Spaniards would have left, but he adds that, nevertheless, the greater portion of Alvarado's Indians had been reserved to his children. Id., xiii. 268-9.