640 / 1060
·,
Royal
Commentaries.
BooK
Iii.
Hand, \Yhich
cl
p ing
to
his
mouth, he kiffed it, and
fo
expired his
lafi
Breath.
fo.
d) ed that famous
Don Fran_cifco
Pi~arro,
the moil: renowned amongfi: the Wor:
th1e , who
hath fo much
enriched, and made great and
fiill
by the
Riches
and
Trea[ure he hath
a quired,
continues greatnefS, and Riches to the Crown of
Spain
and to
all the
World,
as
appears by what hath been already declared,
and
what~
manifefied
by
rhe effe
in
thefe our days. And yet not wichfianding
all
this
vaft Treafure and
Greamefs, he
died poor
and forfaken,
having no
Friend
fo
much as to wind him in a fheet, or lay him
in
his Grave; by which
it
may
ap–
pelr, that
all
the favour
and
profpericy which Fortune had been beftowinP on
him during rhe whole courfe of
his
Life,
was
fnatched away on
a
fudden i;
le-fs
than the [pace of one hour. To confirm which
Garate,
in
the 8th
Chapt~r
of
his
4th
Book
hath thefe Words.
" Itl
th1~
tnant\er he refigned
h.
Soul unto God,
and
with the Marquis
tvrn
of
«
h Page5
ere
ki
led , of
rhe
FaCl:ion
of
Chili
four
were killed, belides others
cc
that
\vere
tfangeroufiy
ouhded.
So
foon
as
this
news was fpread through
th~
cc
To
n,
above·
tWO
hundred
Men
appeared
10
favour
of
Dtm Diego de Almagro·
''
hich, though armed
and
in a
readinefs,
yet durft not
declare
rhemfelves,
un~
'' till
they
faw
how the matter fucceeded , and then they difperfed themfelves
cc
over
all
parts
Df
the
City,
feiZing
and
difartning thofe
whoni
rhey beJieved
to
~'
be
ell affetted to the party of
Pifarro.
f
The
Affaffmate5
havlng done their work, came out of
the Houfe
with their
«
ords drawn,
and
b1ou?y;
and
[ohn
de Rf'dn,
caufing_'Almagro.
to mount on
" Hdrfe-back ,
conautte~
htm
through
the
City,
proclaiming
him
Govemour
" over
all
P~11,
cind
fole
lting
thereof. Then they plundered the
fioufes
of the
" Marquis
and
his
Brbther,
and
of
Antonio
Picado;
and caufed the
Corporation
<c
of
die
City
t'o
receive
Don
Diego
for Governour,
(by
virrue
of
that
Olpicula–
,, lion and
Charter, figned
by
h~
Majefiy
at
the time
of
the
firfi
Difcovery
of
'' t'hefe Cmmtries, whereby the Government
of
the
new
T'uledo
was
granted
to
"
Almagro,
and his
Heil!s,
or to
fuch
Perfon
or
Perf
ons as he
fuould
affign.
Af–
~'
ter which
they
uc
f
evercrl to Death, wbom they knew to
be
Servants ana De–
" pendants
on the
Marquis,
wh!cb
caufed
great
Cries
through
the
whole
City,
'c
the Women
eepiog
and
wailing
to fee their Husbands
murthered, and their
'c
oufes
~lundered.
'' AI1
hich
time
none
dur!l:
roocb the Body
df
the
Marquis,
to
bell-ov:~
decent
" Bnrial
thereupon, unlefs
fame
few
Negroes, who rather dragged than carried
" it to the Church, untill
{ohn de 'Barharan,
and
his Wife,
who
were
Inhabitants
'' of
Truxillo,
and
had been
Servants to the Marquis, having
firfr
obtained leave
" of
Almagro
,
buried him and
his
Brother
ih
fuch
decent
tnanner
as
they were
" able. The which they were forced
to
perform with fuch hafie,
that
they
had
'c
fcarce time
to
cloth his Body \ ith the
Habit
of St.
'fago,
of which Order
he
'' was a Knight, and to par on
his
Spurs, before they were rold that thofe of
Chili
" "'ere coming in great hafte
to
cur
off his Head, and to place
it
on the Gallows.
cc
o that
Barbaran
was forced to £lubber over the Funeral and Offices for the
" dead
irh great hafte, defraying the Charges of the Torches, and orher Duties,
cc
at his
m n
E~pet¥=e.
And having
laid
the Body
in
the Grave, they
immedi–
" ately endeavouted to fecure his orts, who
lay
privately concealed
7
for the par–
" ty
of
Chili
were
now
become Mafters of the whole City.
'' Pience we may learn the variety of Fortune in this World ,
if
we confider
cc
in
how
fhorr a time
a
Gentleman was brought to nothing, who had difcovered,
" and governed, and poffeffed fuch a vall: Excent, and
Traer
of
Land, and
King–
,, dorns;
and had befi:owed a greater Revenue, and Riches on others, than the
'' moft
po erfull Prince in the World
was
able co have done;
and
how in a mo–
"
'm~nt
he \ as made to perifh, without time given him to confefs, and pi-epare
" for
his
Soul, or fettle
his
Eftate; and that he fhould be affaffinated
by
rhe
" Hands of twelve Men onely , at Noon-day, and
in
the midfl: of his
City,
cc
where the Inhabitants \Vere all his
erv~mts
and Creatures, Kinfmen and Soul-
" diers, and all had eaten of his Bread,
and
fubfifl:ed
by his
Bounty;
and
afrer
,
cc
this, that none fhould dare to c me unto his Succour, but rather fly from
him,
'' and abandon
hi
Hou(e.
And moreover, rhat his Burial fl1ould be
fo
obfcure,
" that of all the Riches and Greatnefs he poffeifed, there lhould not be lefi:
fo
" much as to
defray
the
Charge
of the
Wax-Candles,
and other Expences of his
-
Funeral
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