This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ...conduct in office. Meanwhile, the crown, informed of his excesses, on October 5th, 1545, commissioned Lie. Antonio Chaves to succeed him as governor. Chaves' appointment was for four years at 1000 ducats a year salary. He arrived in Santiago on June 4, 1546, took office next day and proceeded to put de Avila ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ...conduct in office. Meanwhile, the crown, informed of his excesses, on October 5th, 1545, commissioned Lie. Antonio Chaves to succeed him as governor. Chaves' appointment was for four years at 1000 ducats a year salary. He arrived in Santiago on June 4, 1546, took office next day and proceeded to put de Avila through a regular residencia regardless of Estevez's work, suspecting Estevez, possibly, of partiality toward de Avila. A glance into the half dozen or so great volumes of legal documents accumulated in the course of these two investigations shows the governor's house raided, Dona Guiomar resisting; a slave woman threatened with torture (in the presence of Chaves himself) to compel her to disclose where de Avila and his wife hid their treasures, the dirt floor of a country house dug up to discover bars of gold there, the former governor a prisoner and chained to the stocks where slaves were held, next seeking sanctuary in the Franciscan monastery, from there fleeing to the woods where he was ingloriously captured and, finally, sailing away to Spain accompanied by the evidence for and against him, there to face the council for the Indies. Fortunately, he was also accompanied by a box of treasure; it lightened judgment on him. Dona Guiomar, fond spouse that she may have been, now came forward to fight off fines imposed on Juanes by claiming that all the property in sight was hers, not de Avila's. The legal battles they waged lasted for years; finally, however, documents show de Avila freed from jail and, no longer banished from the Indies as he was among first sentences passed on him, he returned with his wife and a retinue of fifteen servants to prosecute as a trader the business between Cuba and the continent in which the doughty widow...
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