Lord, I thought that my job requires me and satisfies my conscience removes the cowardice that is just I have to write a VM
has been pleased God to punish the city of León and land with three terrible instruments of punishment, which has been in this a 99 year very high fever disease has been of great confusion to see that in a single day many houses have been left alone and take time to bury parents and children and servants, fleeing parents of the children, leaving as orphans are very large quantities and widows, and uncut land, and cattle paciéndolas without knowing the few neighbors who have fallen are those which stray cattle.
The second punishment that until now has run over six to eight years now has been very great sterility of the fruits of the earth, in great need of bread, sold to great famine, no bill or fee and can be saved, especially in years 97 and 98, up from 99 above all from this harvest, hunger was so great that very large numbers of people died della.
The third persequición that this city has had 10 to 12 years now and currently have a great extreme, has been lack of justice, being so little jealous of good governance and public good of the poor and justice has been and is the cause of the poor and rich finishes are very close to being poor, that last provision was made here by Don Alonso Cornejo waiter and poor and inexperienced, who died there will be eight or nine months. Brought by a licensed Lieutenant Antonio Maldonado and three constables, I think for certain things that have never come worst ministers of justice to do so great thefts and bad treatment to bring the farms and the poor farmers as they did the time the mayor lived, for whose death the said lieutenant makes this the office of magistrate by way of poor laborer, marking and counting the days to increase their pay and resources.
Councilman Don Pedro Castanon de Villafañe. August 25 1599.
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(The Lawyers Lawyers Castellanos under Philip III. Pelorson JM )
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