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History of Mexico, Volume 1, 1516-1521

Note 247 — Chapter X · MULTIPLICATION OF PLOTS. June-July, 1519.

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The bishop of Búrgos, then at Valladolid, spoke so harshly to Puertocarrero that the latter ventured to remonstrate, and demand that their messages be forwarded to the king. A charge was now raked up against Puertocarrero of having three years before carried off a woman from Medellin to the Indies, and for this he was cast into prison. Bernal Diaz, Hist. Verdad., 38; Vetancvrt, Teatro Mex., pt. iii. 119.

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