606 / 1060
Royal
Commentaries.
BooK
Ii.
,
C HA ·P.
xx
xv.
.lo
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.
The Marquis nominate_g
_Captains
for the War.
Gonzalo
Pi~arro
n1akgs
his
Efcape
ou of
Prifon.
The
Semence
given
by
the
Vmpires concerning the Government.
.
The
Interview
between
th~
two
Governour s :
And
the
Liber-
ty
of
Hernando Pic;arro4
·
'
I
'
S
o
fuon as the
Marquis
was
i-erurned
to
the
Q~
of
tos Reyu,
he began his
Preparations for
a War agaiofi
Aif»"'gro,
his
Drums
were
beat
up
fQr new
Leavies and Advices w€te difpatched along d;ie CQaft
of
all
matters
which
ha..q
paifed: Up>on which
the
people flocked together
in
fuch numbers,
that
Ji~'"
ving
increa{ed his Army "<Jery
confiderably,
hl! gave out
his
Comruiffions
to
qm..
tains and other Officers.
Pedro
de
Valdivia,
and
Antonio,..
de
riU11lva,
were ordif.
ned
Major·Generals;
the Son of
Eollonel
~illal'Va
was
made
Searge~nt
Major!
Pn-am:.11-re1,.
Diego
aa
R.oj.u,
a~d
AuJtifo.
de
Mercadil~)..
_
were
appointed,'
pp.
t~~
of
Horfe:
ll1ega
~
Vrbino
Nat!~ve o~ Or~un»1t,
the
.l\.lf\finan of
Johti
/e
Vr/Jjno
w~~
tnade Captain
of
Laociers:
Nurma
Je
CAftro,.,
and
Pfter
de
Yergat1t,
who h~d
heert
a Soulciler
in
Flande.r.r,
and
broughc~ with
him frotn
Ehence
into
thCl
lndi.es,'\
C'Qll\·
pany
of Mufquetiers
widl
Ammunitlb~';
and
neceffi~jes
agreea
ple thereumo
~
were
confirmed
by
Commiffion for
Offi<!ers of
thar
A(f
lhia.
Thefe
Co~rnanders
mufiered ejght hundred choice
6ouid.
ers ·
vh.
ftx
p_grid;ecl
Foor, and rwo
hundre(:j
Horfe,
with
which
Force rhe
Marquis
marched
out
of
!01
ReyeJ
to
fight
Almagro.
Whilll
ma11ters
facceeded,
as we
have
related,
between
the
Marquis,
(lnd
Alm.a–
gr<;,,_
the
Pr oners
w
nicb
remained
in
c~o,
were tontriving the manner
how
tQ
obtain their defired Liberty ; and in regard chat the nature of civil Wars
is
fuch,
as
that Mens Minds are eaGly corrupted and [educed
to
the cqntrary Failiion;
fo
on
chis occalion thefe wanted not Men, who, upon promife of Reward,
were
perfuaded
ro
fell the Loyalty and Faith which they
had
fworn to
Almagro,
and
his Deputy
Graviel
de
RojM
;
the price whereof was not paid in hand,
but
on the
bare Promife of
Gam:-11/0 Pir;arro,
and
Alonfo
de
Alvarado
with about fifty or
fixty
more, who were then Prifoners
in
the
Cajfana;
the Perfons who were privy
to
this efcape, were about forcy
in
number, and were the Gaards of the Prifon;
who having licence
to
go
in
and
out to the Prifoners,
as
occafion ferved; they left
them infl:ruments
to
file ·off their Chains and Arms
for
their Defence; and
h -
ving other Souldiers ' ith them
in-
the Plot, theY, provided' them with Horfes,
and other neceffaries, for their Flight: The Prifoners, and their Complices, be–
ing
in readinefs to make their efcape with the filence of rhe night, it happened,
that fome time before the matter was
to~
put in Execution, that
Graviel
de
RojM,
as
\7\
as his Cufiome, every night came
to
vifit the Prifoners, where having opened
the Doors, he found the Prifoners loofe, and at Liberty, and he himfelf taken;
for being encornpaffed by them all, they told him plainly, that either he muft
refolve
to
go with them, or dye upon the place.
Graviel
de
RojM
feeing
himfelf
thus unexpettedly furprifed, and not being in
any
Capacity
co
make
a
Re·
fifience
coJ;l~nted
to
what they required, and
fo
in company with about an
huiw
M~
he was forced with thofe who had taken him Prifoner, roge–
ther with tbofe who revolted,
to
the par ty of
Francifco Pifarro,
having
free
paffage by way of the Mountains ,
for
A.lmagro,
with his Forces, was quarcered
in the Plains by
the
Sea·coaft.
ome