messengers are so cruell, so impious, and so horrible Tyrants; that they should lose, for this onely Cause, their goods, lands, liberty, wiues, children, and life; which is a thing vnreasona∣ble, absurd, & worthy of all reproach, infamy, & it Hell selfe.
Thus, wisely speaking of the same matter, though vpon another occasion, discourseth the Reuerend Bishop of Chiap∣pa, a principall Citie of New Spaine in the Indies, called Fiyat Bartholmy dalle Case, by Nation a Spanyard, by birth a Siuili∣an, but zealous of Iustice, and a friend of truth, in his books of the destruction of the Indies.
But returning to our Subiect; The King Atabaliba was iustly scandalized, and grieuously moued, at this so learned preaching, that answering to euery point, amongst other things he said these words.
Obedecer al Papa no me esta bien; porque dene de ser loco; pa∣esdà lo que no es suyo, y me manda dexar el Reyno que yè heredè de mi padre, y quiere, que yo le dè à qui en no conesco. That is.
To obey the Pope is not good for mee, because hee must needs be a foole, seeing he giueth that to another, which is none of his, and commands me to leaue that Kingdome, which I haue inherited from my father, and would, I should giue it to one, that I know not what he is.
He could not certainly answer more wisely, according to the Proposition; which was also false; Seeing the Pope was not so void of Iudgement, to haue granted any such conquest to the Catholique King, or any other, especially by the way of warre, as the holy Preacher with threats, did af∣firme; being in it selfe, vniust and wicked: And therefore the aforementioned Bishop of Chiappa carnestly defending the truth, did send vpon this matter thirty propositions to the Royall Councell of India, printed in Cinill in the yeare 1552. In the 23 whereof, he thus speaketh.
Soiurgallos primero por guerra, es ferma, y uia centraria de la ley, y yugo suaue, y cargalegera, y mansedumbre de Iesu Christo. Esla propia, que lleuè Mahoma, y lleuaron los Romanos, con que inquietaron, y robaron el mondo. Es la, que tienen oy, los Tur∣cos, y Meres, y que comenca à tener, el Xarife. Y per tanto, es