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Royal Com1nentaries.
XXXVll.
·
Of the
J11fonnation·
and Procefa
which
w~
given
in,
dnd
made againfl
Atahualpa.
T
HE Trial
of
Atahua!pte
wa long a!1d folernn,
though
Gomara
touches
Upon
it
in fhort. But the
manner
was
tbIS :
The Governour
himfelf
was
Lord
Chief Jufiice of the Bench, and with
him
prefided
Don Diego de A lmagro,
his
Companion; the Clerk of the
Cour~
was
San–
cho de Cuellar·
there was
alfo
an
Attorney General appointed
in
behalf
of the
King,
and Council allowed for
Atahu11/p11;
and others were affigned to bring
in
die
Witndles
and
take
their
T
efiimonies upon twelve feveral Interrogatories;
there
ere alfo fwo other
Judges
named, to be Affiftants,
and
give
their
opinions
in
e
Cafe,
whom, for refpe6t,
1
think not
fit
to nominate, though they were
fuf–
ficiemly
known
co
me.
The
firfr
Interrogatory was this :
Did
you
know
H11ayna
Capac
and
his
Wives?
and how
many had he? The zd. Was
H11afcar
Inca
his lawfully begotten Sun
and
Heir of this Kingdom?
and
was
Atahualpa
illegitimate, and a Baftard; and
not Son of the King, but of fome
Indian
of
f2.!titu?
The
3d.
Had the
lnta
other
Sons befides thofe
before
mentioned?
The
4th.
Did
Atahualpa
inherit this
Em..
pire
by
virtue
of bis Father's Tefiament, or
did
he ufurp it
by
Tyranny? The
5th.
Was
Huafcar
dilinher-iced
of
his
Kingdom
by
his
Far
her's
Tefiament,
or
'W"as
he
.declared
Heir?
The
6th.
Was
H11a[car
filll
living, or was he dead? or did he
dye
a natural
Death,
or
was he
killed
by
order of
Atahualpa?
and when was
ir,
either before
or fince the coming of the
Spaniards?
The
7th.
Was
AtahuAlpa
an
Idolater?
and
did he command his
Subjetts
to facrifice Men and Children?
The
8rh.
Did
Atahualpa
raife unjuft Wars? and was he
guilty
of the
Bloud
of much
People?
The 9th.
Did
Atah11alpa
entertain
many
Concubines? The
1
oth.
Did
Atah11alpa
receive the Tribute of the
Empire
fince the
Spania-,d.r
took
the
poffefiion
cf
it?
and
did
he confume
and
embezle it?
The
11th.
Do you
know
that
fince
the corning in of the
Spaniards
that
Atah11alpa
hath
given Prefents or Gifts
out
of
the
Royal Treafury
to
his
Kindred
and Captains? and
how,
and
in
what
manner
hath he embezled
and
wail
the Wealth of the Publick? The
12th.
Do yon know
that King
Arahttalpa
hath fince his
lmprifonment
treated
with
any
Captains
and
Souldiei:s
to
rebell, and
raife War againO:
the
Spaniards?
and
what
Levies
of Men,
and what Preparations
of Arms
have
been made for
War?
Up–
on thefe
Incerogatories they examined
ten feveral
Perfons; feven
of which were
Servants to the
Spaniards,
and three of them were not, that
fo
they might not ap–
pear
to
be
rheir Creatures; yet they all
declared
whatfoever
Philipilio
put into
their
Mouths,
as
Gomara
affirms
Onely
there was one
Witnefs,
who was
none
of the
Servants belonging to
the
Spaniards,
called
~efje,
who
was Captain
of
a Com–
pany, being
the laO:
that
was
to be examined, fufpetting that the Interpreter
would
fay
fomething which he had not tellified, he,
to prevent
it,
anfwered
in
{hort, either in
the
Affirrn1tive, or
in the
Negative,
faying either
r.
which
is
yes~
or
Manam,
which
is
no. And
left the
Interpreter
iliould
falftfie
th~fe
Words,
which
~ere
not
well underfi:_ood
_by
the Perfons prefent, when he fpake
in
the
affirmative,
he would nod
with
his Head two
or
three times, and when
in
the
, negative,
l;.e
woul~
{hake with
h~s
Head and _his Right.hand, at which the
Judges
much admired ,
bemg
pleafed
w1th
the
fubnlty
of the
Indian.
Howfoever
the
Death
of
Atahualpa
being determined, Sentence was
paffed
upon
him and accor–
dingly
he was executed, as we
have
already declared, though many
~f
chem,
as
well fuch as
1?~lon?_e<l
to
Pifarro,
as thofe who came \vith
Almagro,
\
ho were
of
a
genero~s
Spmt, diffented, and protefted againfl: the Falt. The
Names
of the
moft emment amongfl: t?em
w~re
Francifco de
Chaves,
and
D iego
de
Chaves,
who
were Brothers,
and Nauves
of
Truxillo, Francifco du Fuentes, Pedro de Ayala, Die1.o
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