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R.oyal Commentarie1.
BooK
III.
de
RojM,
of
Garrilaffe
de
la P'ega,
and of
all
other the Inhabitants of that
Town
whom he kne\V well affected co the party of
Pifarro.
'
Another Melfenger was
fent
into the
Provine~
of
Chachapny~,
which
Alonfo
de
Alvarado
had kept
in
peace and quiet; and who having feen and read
the Decla–
ration of
Don Diego,
which promifed
great
rewards co
fuch as
obeyed
him and
th
reamed
fuch as
oppofed him ; he notwithfianding
f
eized on the Meifenge;
and
perfuaded
a
hundred that were with him
to
follow him and ferve his
Majea;.
to
which they having yielded
a chearfull
affenr he declared
for
the
King,
and
fe~
up
his
Standard. And though
Almagro
wrote him very
kind
Letters, endeavouring
ro
allure him to his
parry;
he refufed all
his
Offers, procefiing, chat he
would ne–
ver
own or acknowledge him for Governour, untill fuch time as
he had
feen
bis
Majefiis exprefs Commiffion, and CGmrnands for the fame; which as
he
knew
his Majefry would
~ever gr~nt,
fo
h~
did not doubt, but with the help of God,
and the Valour of his Sould1ers, to revenge the bloud of the Marquis,
and punHh
the contempt which he had put on the Authority of
his
Majefiy.
All
which
Al–
varado
adventured
to
fay and
aet,
trufiing to the advantage of the fimation
of that
Countrey, .which, as
W€
have
faid
i.n feveral places,
~as
very .Mountainous;
by
help of
which, he
hoped to fecure his fmall force, untill
fuch
time as recruits
and
greater numbers of thofe who were
Pifarriff..t
could come in
to
joyn with
him;
being well affured that all that party, and the pe9pje inhabiting along the Coafi,
would readily
affifi,
and ferve the Emperour. Where now we
will
leave
them
for a while
to
treat of others, who followed the fame courfe.
The
Officers and Infiruments of
Almagro,
which
were difpatched
with
his
Commiffion to
Couo
1
durfi not proceed with the like rigour there, as in other
places; for they well knew, that as there were many
well-affe~ed
perfons in
chat
City,
fo
chore, who were rich and principal Men there, and had power over
che
Indians,
were
all
devoted to the fervice of his Majefty. And chat the
contrary
party
confified onely of fome poor, indigent Souldiers, and fuch
as
were newly come
into that Countrey, who hoped by fuch difiurbances and alterations
to
make their
formnes. Thofe who were the Chief Jullices at that time in the City were
Diego
de
Silva,
(whom we have formerly mentioned under
the
Name of the Son
of
Fe.
liciano
de
Silv.a,
a Native of the City of
Rodrigo,)
together with
Fr11ncu
de
Carvt¥–
jal,
who afterwards was Major-General to
Gon~alo
Pif arro.
Thefe perfons having feen
the
Orders, did not
think
fit
to irritate the contrary
party by
a
fl at
and down-right denial of
all
compliance ;
btlt
having confulced
the
Jurats, and the Community of the City Council, recumed an[wer, That in an
ACl:
of fuch great weight and importance, it was neceffary
chat
Don Diego
!hould
fend a more ample power than that which he had already done, whicfi
feemed
fhort and defecl:ive in many particulars; upon tend€r
of
which they promifed co
receive
him for
their Governour
:
Bue
this
was
fa1d,
not with any intention
to
comply, but onely
to
amufe them, and
fpin
out rime untill they could unite weir
forces, which were, for the mofi part, dHperfed
in
their
poffeffions,
and
employe-d
in
the Gold Mines, of
which
mofl: of the Inhabitants of that City
of
Couo
bad
fome !hares allotted to them.
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