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Royal
Commentaries.
B o oK
Ill.
Doct:our
Ve~que~,
the Chief
J
ufHce, and to
Picado
his Secrecary ; but they were ·
fo
far from being concerned, or allarmed herewith, that they i1ighced the reporr
and told him that no Danger could be apprehended fro:n fuch poor and
incon~
fiderable Wretches,
whom amine and Poverty provoked to complain and
threaten. Howfoever the jealoufie hereof made fuch Impreffion in the Mind
of the
M~rquis,
that he forbore to go
to
~a~
unto the Great Church on that
Day, whteh was the Feaft of St.
rohn Baptijf,
m the Year is
41.
being the Day
appointed
for the Execution of
tf1at
Murther. The like caution he ufed on
S1mday
following, being the
26th.
of
(une,
on pretence of
fome
lndifpofition of
Body, intending
to
flmt himfelf up for fome days, · that he
might
the
better
con–
fult
with his Party and Friends concerning the means to fecure
his
own Perfon
and ft1pprefs thofe bold and daring Seditions, which
were
arrived at the highefi
degree of Iofolence. The principal Officers of the City miffing the Marquis at
Mafs, went
to
enquire the caufe, and the fiate of
his
Health;
and having made
· their Court
and
Vifit, they returned again to their own Houfes, onely
Dotl:our
Yelaviuez,
and
Franci.r
de
Chaves,
his true and
intimate Friend,
remai–
ned
with him.
The Confpiratours of
Cbili
obferving
that
the
Marquis
began to grow
cau–
tious how he expofed his Petfon, and that
many
of the principal Perfons of his
party made him frequent vifits, they fufpeCl:ed that
Come
Plot and Defign was
contriving to cut them off;
with which
apprehenfion becoming defperare, on
that very
Sunday,
about the hour of Dinner , and when the Marquis had fcarce
dined,
a party of the
A1fa1Iinates
appeared at a corner of the Market-place, on
the left hand of the Cathedral
Church,
which joins
to
the Lodging of
D~n
Diego
de
Almagro
the younger; where
meeting
the principal of the Confpiratours, they
palfed clear
over the
Market-place,
wnich
is very large, and wide, and went di–
rectly
to
the Houfe of the Marquis, of which they were thirteen
in
number,
twelve of
which
Gomara
particularly names, not fpecifying of what Countrey
they were, but
fers
them down
in
this
manner
following.
{ ohn
de
R11da,
the Chief Leader,
Martin
de
Bilbao, Diego Mendez, Chriftopher de
Sofa,
M"rtm Carrillo,
Arbolancha Hinogeros,
Narvae~,
S.
Mi/tan,
PorrM,
Yela~ue~,
Francu
Nunne~,
and
Gome~ Pere~;
which are
all
that
Gomara
mentions. Thefe
went over the Market-place
with
cheir Swords drawn,
crying
out with Joud
voices,
· May
the
Tyrant Traitour
perifh, who hath
rnurrhered the
Judge w.hom
the Emperour fent to execute Jull:ice upon him. The reafon which induced them
fo
publickly to own
their
Fae!, was, that the People of the Oty, who were
theh
in their Hou[es, might imagine that the Confpiratours were more in number,
than
they
really were; and therefore might be cautious bow they left their
Houfes for fuccour and afftfl:ence of the Marquis. Indeed
it
was a bold and
rafl1
Atcempr, to alt in fuch a publick manner; but fuch was the Fate of the Mar–
qui, chat the
Almll[,rian5
gained their point, and fucceeded in the Revenge inten–
ded,
by
che Death of the Marquis, as
will
appear more at large in the
followin~
Chapter.
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