Diego Columbus refuses Bobadilla’s demand for the prisoners Guevara and Riquelme

Once the said royal patent letter was notified, the commander Bobadilla said at once, as pesquisidor, that, since the Admiral was not there, he required the said Don Diego, his brother, and the alcalde and alcaldes, in the name of the Sovereigns, that inasmuch as he had learned that in the fortress of that villa of Sancto Domingo there were held, to be hanged, Don Hernando de Guevara and Pedro de Riquelme and three others, they should give and deliver them to him at once, with the trials that had been made against them, and the parties who accused them should appear, and by whose order they were held, because Their Highnesses sent him here for this alone, to deliver them; because, the said trials and the cause of each one having been seen, he, as pesquisidor, in the name of Their Highnesses, wished to take cognizance of the causes and was ready to do all fulfilment of justice. …