Marques de Valle.
Cuvierta á la S. C. C. M., El Emperador y Rey de las Españas.
Tiene este decreto:—A su Mag. del Marques del Valle, 3 de Febrero de 44:—Nay que responder: parece letra de Covos.
Original. Archivo de Indias.
No. XVI.—See vol. iv. p. 248
FUNERAL OBSEQUIES OF CORTÉS
[The original of this document is in the Hospital of Jesus, at Mexico; and the following literal translation was made from a copy sent to me from that capital.]
THE INTERMENT OF THE MARQUIS OF THE VALLEY OF OAJACA, HERNAN CORTÉS, AND OF HIS DESCENDANT, DON PEDRO CORTÉS, WHICH TOOK PLACE IN THIS CITY OF MEXICO, FEB. 24, 1629
The remains of Don Hernan Cortés (the first Marquis of the Valley of Oajaca), which lay in the monastery of St. Francis for more than fifty years since they had been brought from Castilleja de la Cuesta, were carried in funeral procession. It also happened that Don Pedro Cortés, Marquis of the Valley, died at the court