Note 502 — Chapter XVII · CAPTURE OF THE EMPEROR. November, 1519.
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Hist. Verdad., 74. Cortés in his quiet way writes to the king that, after passing six days in the great city, and finding that for various reasons ‘it suited the royal interest and our safety to have this lord in my power, and not wholly at liberty, lest he change in the proposal and desire manifested to serve Y. H.... I resolved to seize and place him in the quarter where I was.’ Cartas, 88-9.