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BooK
III.
Royal
Commentaries.
This Plot was
[o
publickly talked of over all 'the
C~cy
of
Los
Reyes,
a~d
th_at the
people
'of
Chili
defigned
to
kill
c~e
Marquis, chat
his
Fnends
gave
hllll
fair
no–
tice
and
warning of
the
Treafon
mtended,
to
whom,
as
Carate
reports,
he made
this Anfwer.
c(
That
;the
Chief Heads of that place would guard
his
1
and
fo
little
did he
~'
[eem
to be
concerned
for his own fiifety, that
~e
W<?uld
fr~quently
walk
'' abroad,
attGnded
onely
with
a
f
mgle
Page,
to
certain Mills, which
~e
had fet
" up wiohout the
City.
And when
he
was asked why
be
took not
his
Guards
"
ith
him,
be replied,
he
ould
not
ba~e
the World
believe
that
he
appre–
" headed
aoy fear,
or
intendoo tu
fecur~
himfelf fi:om the La':"yer
Yata de C11tftro.,
' who
was
coming,
as was
reported,
with
Commiffion
co fie m
J
udgme(lt upon
'' him; for
which reafon, and farther to amufe the
Marquis,
the people
of
"
Chili
gave out, that
Vaca
de
Cafaro
was dead.
" It happened
one day that
'f
ofan ·de Rada,,
~ich
.f
ome few
Attendants ,
w~nt
'' and made a
vifit.
to
the Marqms, whom findmg m a Gu-den,
he
asked
h1m
" the reafon why his Lordfhip intended co put him and his Friends to Death :
«
Whereunto the Marquis made Anf
we ,
with an Oath,
that
he
never
had
any
" fuch
intention;
but that on the contrary,
it
might rather be fufpe6ted that
'' they
defigned to kill him , fince
..they
bad
bought Arms
to
that purpo[e ; to
" which
'fohn
de
RAda
made
Anf.wer,
That
it
was not
firange,
that
fince his Lord–
'' {hip
had bought
Lances
1
if
they iliould
pr(}Vide themfelves with
Coats
of
'' Mail for their Defence. To which bold .Saying he was
encouraged>
in con–
,, fidence of
fourty
Men, which he had
then
lying
in
wait not far from
him,
and
" well armed. And
farther
he added,, That
in
cafe
his
Lordfuip was
j~ous
of
'' their
pra6l:ices , he
de!ired onely
leave
for
])on
Diego
de
.4lrr11-1g110,
and
his
Com–
"
~anions,
co retire o
ut of the Countrey.
The
Marquis being far ftom
taking
" thofeW:ords in the
wor.ftfenfe, or
con~iV'iog
fu(picion
thereby,
but com...
("' J)affionating
their
co
ndition,
he af!ured liim with mild and obliging Words,
"
t:hat
thofe Lances were not boughc with defign or ba<d .intention
~ainfi
them:
~'
With which
gathering
fome
Oranges., lae
prefented
them
to
(<Jbn
de
IVtda,
" which were efieemed for a ruriofity
at
cliat
time,
~
the
full,
anct the
moll:
'' early
frnit,
and
with
all told him
in
the
pahlick bearing
of
tbofe then prefeor,
<c
that he fuoald confider, and acquaint him
with
what he
iOOod
in
need, and
it
<'
fuould
be
provided for him.
rob-,,
tl#..R.Ad8
kiffmg bis Hands for the favour,
" left the Marquis
well
affUred of
his
~oe
and honeft meaoing, and without jea·
" loufie,
or
the leafl:
fufpicion
of
a
Plot
againG:
his
Life, and
fo
retired to
his
" Lodging:> where he met
ith the
principal Confpiratours,
and
with
them
" agreed, that Gnce they had miffed of rheir Defign to kill
him
on Midfummer
'' Day,
chat
it
iliould now be perpetrated on the Sunday following.
Thus far
Carate,
the
which
is
confirmed by
Lope~
de
G
etm11r11
in
this
manner.
611
c,
The good Marquis
(fays
he) was as carelelS of his Safety, and as little ap–
,, prehenfive of any Mifchief from the people of
Chili,
as they were intent and
'' felicitous
to
commit the Aet.
Howfoever
they thought fit to
defer
the
Execu–
tion umill
the coming of the
Judge,
and had feen the manner whereby he inten–
ded
to
proceed.
This Delay of the
Almagrians
gave time
to
Antonio Picado,
Secretary to
the
Mar–
quis, to
evidence
his
Refentment with rage and Indignation
again(t
thofe of
Chili
'
for. the impudent affiont offered .to the Marquis, and himfelf, by
the
Rap~
which they
had
fall:ened to
the
Pillory, as'' e before mentioned; but fince this
was
rather a
matter of Threatning, and an
Indication
of what they defigned
to
act,
had
not their
Fear
and Cowardife relhained them ,
the Secretary
in
fcorn
and contempt
of
~hat
they
were
able.
to
per.form,
took
out of his Cap a certain
Medal of Gold, richly
enameled ,
?:tth a 1:mger fcornfully
pointing,
with
this
Motto,.
Thiu much for thofe
of
Chili.
With
w
h1ch
thefe angry Souldiers
were .
fo
far _mcenfed, that .they refolved
to precipitate
the Defign, and
to kill
the
Mar
quis before the
~rnval
of the Judge;
fo
that now they acted more pubHckly
than
befo.re;
by
which
me~ns
the
Plot
coming to
the knowledge
of
a Priefr, he
gave
not~ceco
the
Marqws
o~
the manner
how,
and of the
time
when
this
Affaflinat1on
was co be
~ommrtted;
all which the Marquis communicated
co
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