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Updated: May 2, 2025
Sensible of the detriment suffered by the royal interests in consequence of the disagreement between the present generals, Judge Santillan and Archbishop Loyasa, to which the defeat of Meneses was obviously owing, these very unfit persons for military command were displaced, and Paulo de Meneses was invested in the office of commander-in-chief, with Pedro de Puertocarrero as his lieutenant-general.
Yet the woman's disbelief was quickened into malevolence by the jealous fear that what he had told them of himself might, after all, be true. Upon that malevolence she acted forthwith, lodging an information with Don Rodrigo de Santillan, the Alcalde of Valladolid. Very late that night Espinosa was roused from his sleep to find his room invaded by alguaziles the police of the Alcalde.
Two of them were from Anne one of which supplies the extract I have given; the other two from Frey Miguel himself. Those letters startled Don Rodrigo de Santillan. He was a shrewd reasoner and well-informed. He knew how the justice of Castile was kept on the alert by the persistent plottings of the Portuguese Pretender, Don Antonio, sometime Prior of Crato.
Besides the army which they authorized Alvarado to raise and command in Las Charcas, the judges thought it necessary to raise another army at Lima, of which Santillan, one of themselves and the archbishop of Lima were appointed conjunct generals.
Among this motley crowd we forced our way, till we reached the house of my father's agent, a Spanish merchant, Don Jose Torres de Santillan by name, a very honest and good man. As the plan of his house was similar to that of most of the larger dwellings in Lima, I will describe it.
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