A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies: Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India, TOGETHER With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first Discovery by them.

								


[Preparer's notes:
1) Though the original title does not appear in this version, this

     is (apart from the preface) a translation of:

    "Brevisima relacion de la destruccíon de las Indias", by

    Bartolome de las Casas, originally published in Seville in 1552.
2) The original archaic spelling and punctuation has been retained]

                         POPERY

                   Truly Display'd in its

                       Bloody Colours:

                       Or, a faithful

                         NARRATIVE

                          OF THE
Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of
Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish
Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India

                         TOGETHER
With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and
Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first
Discovery by them.

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Composed first in Spanish by Bartholomew de las Casas, a Bishop there,
and Eye-Witness of most of these Barbarous Cruelties; afterward Translated
by him into Latin, then by other hands, into High-Dutch, Low-Dutch,
French, and now Taught to Speak Modern English.
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London, Printed for R. Hewson at the Crown in Cornhil,

          near the Stocks-Market.  1689.
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                           THE

                         ARGUMENT

                   OF THIS NARRATIVE

                       By way of

                         PREFACE

                         TO THE

                         READER.

The Reverend Author of this Compendious Summary was Bartholomaeus de las
Casas alias Casaus, a Pious and Religeous person, (as appears by his
zealous Transports in this Narrative for promotion of the Christian
Faith) elevated from a Frier of the Dominican Order to sit in the
Episcopal Chair, who was frequently importuned by Good and Learned Men,
particularly Historians, to Publish this Summary, who so prevailed with
him, that he Collected out of that copious History which might and
ought to be written on this subject, the contents of this concise
Treatise with intention to display unto the World the Enormities, &c.
the Spaniards committed in America during their residence there, to
their eternal ignominy; and for the author finding that no Admonitions
or Reprehensions, how mild soever could operate upon or sink into the
rocky-hearted Tyrants in those Occidental parts; he therefore took up a
firm resolution, being then about 50 years of age (as he himself
declares) to run the Hazards and Dangers by Sea, and the Risque of a
long voyage into Spain _there to acquaint and Certifie the most