Chimalpahin evinced the greatest admiration for Juan’s wife. “The people thought [Zárate] very evil, but although the Mexica were angry about the priest because he treated them like this, they had patience, they kept it inside, no one dared to make it public and make complaint to the Royal Audiencia.” These were remarkable words for the seventeenth century, a direct avowal of hidden feelings: They kept it inside, no one dared to make it public. And Chimalpahin added that it would have remained thus “if it hadn’t been for María López, who was so bold as to accuse him before the lord judges.”
