A final missive in the Franciscan barrage [of 1657] was a letter from the mico and principales of Tolomato, who asked the king to tell their governor that between the 12-league haulover and the ferry to San Juan del Puerto they had plenty to do without being called away from their fields to do unpaid chores for him and his cronies, unloading ships at the presidio, bringing logs from the woods, and making palm thatch. Most of the cargoes they carried to San Juan, they said, were rescates belonging to the governors and the soldiers, who offered them no pay but hard words and blows with a stick (Santiago and the Principales of Tolomato, 1658). The Tolomato letter was overkill, for the king had already acted, ordering don Diego de Rebolledo arrested for the "cruelty and inhumanity" with which he had repressed a revolt that he himself had provoked. Before the governor could mount a defense, he died. (Bushnell SS)