Within a week Montezuma was treacherously seized by the Spaniards and kept a prisoner in their quarters, watched day and night by their soldiers.

Then came event upon event.

Certain lords in the coast lands having killed some Spaniards, were summoned to Mexico by the instigation of Cortes.

They came and were burned alive in the courtyard of the palace.

Nor was this all, for Montezuma, their monarch, was forced to witness the execution with fetters on his ankles.