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Royal

Commenta rie1.

BooK

II.

,, " 'Ti .well that there

ants not thofe who are agrieved at the fatisfaction which

given tom Honour, by tl1e

eath of

Pedro

Le-rm~:

Whofoever he is let

him iµeak

arly in pu?lick,

~nd

not in

~ecret

and

.ob[~e

Whifpers ; for' by

~eaveos

I am a Man who dare anfwer hnn,

~nd

give him as many fiabs, as I

did to

Pedro de Lerma.

The Governour knmvmg that he meant and aimed at

hi!fl, pref

en.tly

made up

him,

~nd ta~ng

hold

the Col1ar of his Doubler,

tned out

w1.th a loud

v01ce,

fei~e

yau m

the

King

Name, and 1

charge

you alt

affift the

ufltce again.ft

a Traytour and a .LWurtherer.

Whereupon all that vvere pre–

fent took hold

Samaniego,

and put him

Prifon, for

every

one hated him

being tired with his infolences. Hereupon the Governour made Procefs againfr

him

examination and tefiimony

four Wimeffes: the fubfiance wliereof

was

thlS ;

That they had heard

Samamego

fay, that he had killed

Pedro

Lerma

ho was

on~

of his Majefiy's

Captai~,

and who had performed great Service

the Crown m the late Conquefl:, bavmg executed the Office of Lieutenant-Ge–

neral

Marquis

Pifarro

;

and

that

he killed him not in

the

Bartel but as he

lay

wounded in his bed : Being. accufed upon this

~ndict:C!1ent,

wa~

found guilry,

and condetnned to dye ; durmg

the

tnne of

h1ch

Tnal,

the

Jndian1

having erec–

ted a GalJows for

him,

he was brought

forth

to punHhrnent; and the

Jndiani

ha–

ving in their own

Language

proclaimed his Crime, were the Executioners alfo to

hang him up: which was a piece of Jufiice applauded by all who faw and heard

of it.

But to return again to our Hifiory. The

Indiam

did not execute the defign

they

had

agreed,

which

was

kill all

tbe

SpaniardJ

after

the Bartel,

which

they

imagined might have been done, after they were weakned by the common flaugh–

ter: For God,

ho intended by

their

means

propagate the Holy Gofpel

tho

arts, prevented that intention by dilfention amongfi: the

Jndian1

themfelves;

for that the

Indians,

who were the Menial and Dornefiick Servants of the

Spnm•

1trd!,

being affeet:ed with a natural Loyalty to their Mafiers, would not confent

to he Maffiicre of them, but rather judged themfelves obliged to defend and fight

for them ; for the rdmeJ'nbrance

what

\\rfui

encharged thetn by

Huayna Ca–

pac,

and

Manco Inca,

occurred frill

to their mihds,

which

uhey believed, that

an obligation l;iy on them to ferve and obey the

Spaniards.

Thus did the divi–

fion bet een the

Indian

Servants, and the others, prevent the execution of their

defign; from which alfo little fucce!S could have been expetl:ed,

c~nfidering

that

they had no Head, or

Gmeral,

to condu6t them : And

they had had one,

yet,

as HHl:ories

fayl

the

lndian1,

who were on the fide of the Conquerours, would not

well

have accorded with thofe who were vanquifhed,

This Battel happened on the

6th

April

1>38,

which being on a

Saturday,

which

was the day after the Feafi: of

Laz.arm,

the

SpaniardJ

conceived a particular

devotion for that Saint; and

remembrance thereof built and dedicated

Church

him in tho[e Plains where thl Battel wa fought, and which

~as

fianding when I departed from thence. Within this Church the Bodies of all

thofe who

ere flain, both of one fide and the other, were interred

And

though fome alledge,

thac

the Battel happened on the 26th of

April,

I cannot

.but believe that

was an Errour of the Printer, who lnftead

put dowh

26.

Blcu

'f/al1rFJ-·

de cribing the Grandure of the

City

Couo,

rouahes fome particu–

lars relating to this Batte! , and fays :

" Tfuat

in thofe

Plains

there is a Church dedicated to St.

La~tt'l'UJ,

where for

a long time lay interred the Bodies of thofe who were flain in i:hat Fight. Af..

' ' tenvard a

Spaniard>

who was one of the Conqnerours, a Perfon both NobJe

'' and Religious,

was

accufromed to refort frequennly thither to pray for the

" Souls of thofe who were interred in chat place. And h:iving continued rhis

devotion for a long tltne, at length he happened to hoor fighs and deep groans

" from the Vaults of

the

Church, and therewith appear6d before him the Perfofi

one of his friends, which had been there {lain ;

but

he faid nothing more

" him than onely co int eat him, that he would continue his vifits to

chat

~hurch

' 4

freq~ently

at certain Hours both by Day and Night... At firfr the

Sp1111iard

'' poffelfed with great fear at the fight of this Apparmon, but

length

bemg

_' accu-