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Royal
Commentaries.
B00K
III.
And
fince we are not
able
to
extoll
his
praifes to that
de~ree
which they deferve
we muft refer the defea: of our Expreflions to be
fup~lied
by
his
own Aas
and
Conquefis,
which
f
peak themfelves. And
fo
we
lliall
pafS
fotward
in
our
Hiftory.
.c
HAP. X.
I
Don
Diego
de
Almagro
Ad,,,iiniflers
an
Oath of
AUegiance
to all
Officers, taufing
thern
to
[wear
Fealty
to
him.
as
Governour
of
Peru ;
and fends
h~
Warrants
into
ditJers.
parts of the Kingdom, which are
oppofed
and refifled.
T
HE Marquis being
thus
flain,
as before
related
caufe
chiefly by
the over–
confidence of
Fr1t11dfco
de
Chaves;
for hctd he flmt the
doors
1
as he was or...
dered, the
Marquis,
and fuch as
were
with him, might
have had
time
to
have
3rined themfelves,
whilfi
th
e Affaffmates
were
employed
ifi
breaking
open
the
d~ors ~
and. perhaps_
in
t~lt
mann.erthey
might
have prevailed
over
rheir
Ene–
mies :
For
if
the Marqws, and
his Brother,
and
two
Pages,
were able without
their
defenfive Arrns to kill four of thofe
Ruffians,
as fame
Authours
report, be–
fides thofe who were wounded by rhetn ; whar may we imagine they would
have
done,
had
they been in
a readinefs, and
well appointed
?
And
had
thofe who
leaped out of the Windows
flood
to ir, at1d joyned with their Mafiers,
'tis
very
probable they might have
been
able
to
have
refilled, and overcome rhem;
but
when a
mifchief
once comes with futprize ,
it
is hardly prevented by
humane
Counfels. That
Negro
which
Gomara
fays,
vvas killed
by
chefe
Villains,_ vvas
one vvho
hearing the
bafle, catne up the
fiairs
to
help
his Malter, or to dye
vvith
him: but vvhen he came
to the
door, he underfiood
that
he
vvas
already killed;
vvherefore
he
ift'"ended
to
have
locked and barred the door,
fo
as to have kept
them
in untill he
could
have
called
the Juftice :
But as
the
Negro
vvas !hutting
and fafining the doors, orre of
the
Aflafftnates
happened
to come out,
and
gueffing
at the intention of the
Negro,
fell
upon him,
and fiabbed him
tO
death with his
Dagger. There were
feven killed
on
the fide of
the
Marquis,
amongll
which
the
Serva
ht .
of
Chaves
was one ; foon afrer
which
the
faction
of
Almagro
went
out inco the Market·
place, and
publHhed their Vitlory. This was the fare of that
good
Marquls,
who petilhed
rather
by
the
negligence
and
obfiinacy of
his
own
P~ople,
than
by
the
p'6wet
and
firength of his
Enemies. Upon
the news
of
his
Death
a gteat
rumult
was
raifed
through
the whole
Cicy
;
forne
cried our,
chey
have wounded
the King by the
Death
of the Marquis, others with a
loud
voice
proclaimed, the !yrant is dead, and the Murcher .of
Almagro
revenged.
Wich
this
manner
of noife
and confufion
many
of
wefe
different parries, both of one
fide an
of
the
bther, ran out
frotn
theit Houfes co favour their
refpe6tive
Fa&i–
on ;
upon
which
quarrels
and difputes
f
~etal
were killed and wounded ; bat
fo
foon
as
it
as knowti
that
the
Marquis
was killed, all his party
retired,
and che
point was decided.
Then
thofe
of
Chili
brought forth
Don Diego A lmal!'.o,
Junior,
proclaiming him
King
of
Per".
The tumult of that day being ceafed,
he
was
fo·orn
hy
the
Cotporation of
that
City robe Governour of
chat
Coumrey, none
dating
to contradiet, or quell:ion, whatf6ever that prevailing party required.
In
p rfuance hereof,
the
late
Minifrers and
Officers
of Juilice ere all difplaced, and
others appointed
in
their fieads.
The
rich
and powerfoil Men
were
all
impri–
foned,
and
thofe of
any
Efiates
in
los
Reyu,
which were ill affetted, were all
feized and their Goods confifcated. Then
they
took all rhe Fifths
belonging
ro
the
King,
which
being_already gathered,
amounted co a vaft furn.
In
like
man.
1er
all
the
GGods
and
Efiates of
foGh
as were dead, or abfenr, and efieemed Ma–
lignanrs,,