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BooK
III.
Royal
Commentaries.
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liRoantS; .or
ill
affeet@d,
weise
feized, and
ton~erred
to the
u[e
of
their
o
n
party,
wno
being
poor-,
(as we have before mentioned ) had need thereof to repair
sheir
fortunes.
·
·a
Pohn
~Rada
was
the
Perfbn nominated for
Gen~ral:
1
ohn
T ello de
Guvna~,
a
Native of
Sevllle
and
Ftttncu
de
Chaves,
a
near Kinfman of the
other
Frttncu
de
ChA'llt.t,
who
was killed
with
the Marquis,
were
made
Capt~ins
;
for
it
is
on~
or
the effential
mlfedes
of Civil War for
Brothers
to
fight agamfl:
Brothers.
L1ke–
wife
th~iftopher
Sotelo
received a
Commiffion
t:o
be a Captain, and others \
re
nornin~ted
for
other
Offices. At die
news
of thefe alterations, all
the
idle
Spani-
4'ds
and
Vagabonds,
which
were void
of etnployment in
Peru,
came
flocking
to
die
City
of
101
Reyes
;
fo
that in
a
fhott
time
Al'magro
had cotnpofed
an
Anny
of
more than
eight hundred
Men:
In confidence of which force, he
difpatched
his
Orders and Commands
to
Co:ao,
and
all the
Cities
of
Peru,
namely to
Are111epa,
to the
CharcttJ
and
to
all
places
along
the
Sea-coafi
of
Tntxilto,
and to the
Inland
Qontries
of
~he
Cht:tchapf!YM,
to receive and acknowledge
hlrn
for a
bfolute Lord
and
Govertmur
over all the
Empire.
One or rwo Cities complied a.nd
obeyed,
rather out of fear
than love, becaufe they had
not power co
make refifience againlt
fifty
Men, which
were fent
againft
them :
but
other
Cities
tefufed ro
fubmit,
as
will
prefently
appear.
It
is
a comtnon phrafe
in
the
Lan~age
of
Peru
to
fay,
Vp
the
Coaft,
anti
down
th6
CM.ft;
not that
Upon
the
Sea}
which is a Plain, there
can
be Up
or
Down ;
·but
it is
a
term
ufed
in
the
New Navigation, in refpeet
tb
the
Saudi-wind
V\
hich
always
blows Trade, ot
the
fatne way in
thofe
Seas,
Pd11nma
lying
to
Lee·\ 'ard
of
Peru;
fo
on
the
cc
trary thofe
who
Sail from
Panama
o
Peru
mufr turn to
.- Wind-ward,
whKh
ls,
as
it were, up-hill, as the
other
is
down.
rob-ti
de
Rdda,
as
we
have
laid, having
had a
great
hand in
the
late Revolution,
· took upc>n
him to
Hfue out all ComrnHiion in the
Name
of
Almagro,
Without com–
rnnflicating
the
fenfe
or
fubfiante
thereof
to
his
orhet
Companions,
who hacl been
equally
cohcerned
with
him
in
the
Murther
of the
Marquis;
which was
the caufe
«Jf
fnuch
f
pleen
and
rnallce
amobgll:
the
principal
Men,
fo
that
they
began
to
ban–
dy
atnongfi thetnfelves, attd contrive ways
ih
what manner
to
kill
him.
- The
Plot
bemg
difcovered
Franci{co de
Chave.>
endured
the Wrack, and
afrer..
wards
was hangep, being the Ring-leader of
this
Confpiracy; feveral others were
likewlfe
for
the fame caufe put
to
death,
atnongll:
which
A ntonio
de
Orihuela,
a Na-
itte
of
Salamd!Jca,
was
one,
though
lately
come
from
Spain,
having on
the
Way
fi'oM
thence
filid, that
the
parry
Which now ruled
were
a
company
of
Tyrants;
Qfret
which rafh
faying,
he was
ill
advifed
to adventure his
life
in their
hands.
(/arcia
d~
AlvdYttdo
was
One
of
thofe
Officers
whom
Almagn:>
employed
to
take
~lfeffion
of T
6wn
and
Plahtatlcm~
for his ufe, and
~
,,Souldiers, and to
plufldet Horfes,
and
to
difatrn
all thofe of the t:ontrary patty who had command
\'et
Indians,
or
any
power, being
efteemed for Enemies ro
the
Government.
~tordingly
he
'ent co
Tf#x illo
whera
he difc.batged
Diego
de
Mora
from being
Jtldge
of
that place, th6ugh
he
had
been deputed in
that Office
by
Don Diego
de
.Almagro
5
but having
kept
a correfpondence with
Alor!/o
de
Alvarado,
who
~as
of
the contrary faetion,
he
was efl:eemed for one
difaffect:ed,
and not
fit
for
chat em–
ploymenL
In
the City of
SL
Michel
he put
Francifco de Po-anediano,
and
Hernando de
VillegM
to death, befides
other Outrages: And
in
Huanucu
he
killed
Alonfo de Cabrera'
who had
once been Steward to
Francifeo Pif arro,
becaufe
he
had
made a party
t~
joyn
together,
and
fly
to
the
King's Forces.
Another
infrrument or Officer
they
had procured,
named
Diego
Mende:l:.
who
went to the
Town
of
Plate
in
the
CharcM,
which they
found witliour
peopl~
be–
caufe
they
had all difperfed
themfelves by
feveral ways
to
meet at
Couo
a~d
co
declare
for
.t~e
King ,
as
.will
prefently
app~ar.
Howfoever,
Diego
Me:de~
took
great
q?ant1~1es
of Gold m that
Town,
which the
Spaniard1
had
with privity of
the
Indians
hidden
and concealed;
but
fuch was
the cowardife
of
that
poor-fpiri–
ted
people,
that
upon
the
le_afr
threat they immediately made
a
difcovery.
Mgreove~,
he
made
a
feizure
of
fixty thoufand
Pefos
of refined
Silver,
digged
from
the
Mines of
de!
Porco,
for
as
yet thofe of
Potocjj
were
not
difcovered ; and
confifcated to the ufe of
Aimagro
all the
lndian1
Riches
and
W ealth
vvhich
be...
l?nged
t~
the Marquis
Don Francifco
Pi~arro,
vvhich amounted
to
a
v~ft
fu rn: the
like he did of the
Plantations
of Captain
Diego de Rojttt,
of
Per11ncure:l:.,
of
Graviel
di
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