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€· HAP.
VI.
fhe
Indians
put
Cuellar
to Death, and enter into
Articles
with
the
other
Prifoners.
S
o
foon as the
Inca
Titu
Attt11ch;,
and
f2.!!J~qui~,
were entred into
Caf[amarca
with the
Spa11iard1
their Prifoners, they examined the
Indians
concernmg the
Death of their
J(ing
Atabua/j?a
;
and being informed that
Cuellar
had been
Clerk~
and drawn up the Indiet:menc, and made all the ProcefS againll:
Atahualpa,
and
had been
prefent to fee their King executed:
And
being likewife informed
that
Francu
de Chave1,
and
Hern~mJ.1J
de
Haro,
arrd others then Prifoners, had appeared
in
favour of
Inca
Atahualpa,
and that they interceded
for his
Life and Liberty
with
fuch heat and earnefinefs, that they adventured their own lives
in
his eaufe :
Upon which full hearing and information of the matter,
Titu Atauchi,
and
f/..uiz–
qui.r..
and the other Captains, refolved that the Clerk
Cuellar
for his bold attempt
on ;he Life of their King, and for having notified the Sentence, Oiould
be
put
to death in the fame form and manner as their King was executed.
But
as to
the other
Spaniard!,
out of ref
pelt
to
Francu de Chaves,
and
Hernando de Haro,
who
had appeared
in
favour of their
Inca,
order was given for the_ir Cure, and that they
fuould
be
well treated, and
civilly
ufed; and that being
recovered
of their
wounds,
they !hould be difmiffed with freedom and prefents. According to
this
deter–
mination the Counfels were executed;
for
Cuellar
being taken out from the very
Prifon where
Atahualpa
had been lodged, and being carrieq to
the
very fame place
of Execution ,
with
a Cryer before him , Proclamation was made as followeth :
The
achacamac
commands
that
this
Auca,
which jig»ijies as mJteh a1 Tyr.Atnt, Trl!J•
tor,
&c.
~nd
all
thofe who have
had
a hand in the Mnrther of onr
late
Inca,
foottld he put
to
death.
Not that
this
form of a Cryer
was
according
to
the ufe of their
Coun–
trey, but onely in imitation and revenge of what had been done m their
Inca,
and
accordingly
Cuellar
was tied and fl:rangled at the very fame
Poft
at which
.At4hu–
alpa
had be@n Executed ; with which a
fhou~
was made,
ThUJ
may all thy
Compa–
nions perifh.
Cuellar
being dead, they left his body expofed the whole day
to
com–
mon view, and towards the Evening buried
it,
imitating in
·aia
particulars the
forms ufed by the
Spaniards
in
Execution of
At11h~alpa.
But
as to
Francu de
Cha-–
ve1,
and his other Companions,
fo
foon as they were cured of their wounds,
and
were in a condition
to
travel, they
befiowed
on them Prefents
of Gold,
and Sil–
ver,
and Emeralds, and difPatched them away with feveral
Indians
to
carry chem
on their fhoulders : But firll: they capitulated with them, as Reprefentatives for
the other
Spani1irdr,
and agreed on feveral Articles
of
Peace and Friend!hip: the
principal of which were thefc:
:
" That all the A& of War and Hofiility, and
~'
Injuries
hitherto committed on either
fide, fhall
ceafe,
and
be pardoned, and
" forgotten. That for the future a Peace !hall
be efl:ablHhed between
the
Spani–
"
ard.;
and the
lndian1,
and that they !hall offer no hurt or damage to each other..
«
That the
Spaniards
fhall not deprive
Manco
lnea
of
his
Empire, becaufe
it
is
his
'' right
to GoV'ern, being
law.full
Heir.
That the
lndi11n1
and
Spaniards
in all their
" Commerce and Negotianions {hall treat
amicably
togetherj and afford help and
, '' fuccour each to the other. That the
Spaniard1
iliall
fet
thofe
Indians
at
liberty
'' whom they hold
in
Chains, and that for the future they
!hall
put none of
the~
:: into Irons,
~ut
freely to ufe them in their fervice. That the Laws made by the
n
pafi:
lnctU,
m
favou~,
_and for the benefit of their people, and which are not re–
"
.p~gnant
to the Chnlhan
Law,
fhall be conferved inviolably in their force and
,, virtue. That
t~e G~wer~our
Do': Francifco
de
Pif 1trro
{hall in a convenient time
~end th~fe
Cap1tulat10ns mto
Spam
to be there ratified and confirmed
by
his Im–
peual
MaJ~ll:y.
All which
tbelndiam,
as well as they were able, gave
to
u~detfiand
UDto
Franau
de
Cl;avcs,
partly
by
figns,
and
partly
by
words, which
were
interpreted
ff
i
b.
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