652 / 1060
6:L6
Royal
Com·mentaries.
BooK
Iii.
CH AP.
XII.
he People of
Rimac,
and other
p~rts,
receive
Vaca de
afl:ro
for
Governour.
Peralvarez,
and his
Coniplices;
.
contrive a
Stratege111e
of War againji
Almagro,
and join
with
Alonfo de Alvarado.
A
Mongll:
the
C.Ommiffions
which
Judge
Paca
de
Caft;o
difpatched ·to feveral
places;
that
for the City of
Lo.1 Reye.1
was direeted to Friar
'IhomM
de
St.
Martin,
Provincial of the Order of the
Domini'can.t,
and to
Francu de Barionuevo·
and to
Geronimo
de
Aliaga,
giving hem power and authority to fuperintend
th~
Government of that
Cicy,
and of the parts thereunto belonging, unri11 he himfelf
arrived chere
in
Perfon.
!hefe Cornmiffions
ere brought and delivered in the Convent of
St.
Dominick,_ "
fome few days after the departure of
A lmagro,
and in the abfence alfo of the
Fa~
tber Pro
incial,
whom
Almagro
had carried wich
him,
to countenance his Enter..
rife \ ith the prefence of Cuch a Perfon. Howfoever the Mayor and Aldermen
of the City alfembled
in
the night, and having opened the Commiffion, they with
common confent obeyed it, and received
raca
de
Caftro
for
Govemour of
that
Empire, and
Geronimo de Aliaga
to be
his
Deputy,
as
the Commiffion fpecified.:
o foon
as
the
Citizens
had paffed this
Aet,
they fled to
Truxillo;
fearing the re–
turn
of
Almagro,
who
as
yet '
as
not advanced fo
far
on
his
march, but that up-
n
the
e
of this Revolution he
was
ready to have returned with
full
intent
to avenge this fudden defertion on the City with Fire,
and
Sword, and other
Cruelties; but then fearing lefl:
this
delay iliould give an advantage to
Alvare~
Holguin,
he refolved to proceed, and to purfue his Delign, which
vvas
of greatefi:
importance. Hovvfoever
in
the Execution thereof many crofs and unfortunate
Accidents occurred
~
for
fo
foon
as
it
vvas
knovvn
in
the
Army,
that a Gover-
our
rom
His
ajefiy vvas arrived
in
the Countrey, many of the principal
Men
revolt d, and deferred him ; amongfr vvhich vvere the Father Provincial,
[ohn de
aaved
a,
the Agitant
Yllen
Suare:;::.,
de
Carvajal,
de
AgHero,
and
Gome:;:., de
Alvarado:
o vfoever
in
defi ight of all thefe difcouragements
Alma!t_o
refolutely purfued
his Pomt and Defign, though to his great difappointment and prejudice his Lieu–
tenant General,
{ohn de Rada,
fell lick, by reafon of vhich he vvas greatly con...
fufed vvichin himfelf vvhat courfe to take; for in ca[e he left him behind,
h~
vvas in danger of falling into the Hands of the Enemy, nor did the Extremity of
bis Sickne'5 admit of any motion; hovvfoever for his fake he lelfened his
days
iournies, and marched very
fofdy,
knovving that his principal bufinefs vvas to
o erthrovv
Alvare:;::.,
Ho!},uin.
Pedro
Alvare:;::.,
being informed hat the Enemy
vvas
dravving near, to vvhom
l1is
Force vv-as much inferiour., he thought it no-vvife prudent to adventure rhe
fuccef5
f
Affairs on the hazard of a Batte! , confidering that the fubfifrence
of his Army vva of great importance to the Service of h· Majefty; vvherefore
to fup
ly
that vhich vas vvamiog in !l:rength
by
forne Stracegeme ofWar,
it
va agr d by a Council of War,
to
detach a Body of tvvency choice Horfe co
ferve for c uts, and to ufe all their endeavours to take fome of the Souldiers of
Alma,gro
v I
id
accordingly happened out; for t
hefe Horfe took three Spies be..i
1 ng·ng to h
nemy,
vhich being brought to
Alva.re:;:.,,
he hanged up tvvo of
h m, and
tl
e h. ·d I e faved, making him great promifes of Revvard for the
fo..
cure, and in hand b Ctovv d on him three thoufand
Pefo.1
of Gold, conditionally;
hat he 0 ould return
the
am of
Almagro,
and there perfaade feveral of chafe
vvhom he Jmevv r
e vv 11 affeCl:ed to him, to revolt from
Almagro,
and afiifr
hun
in the
ight, for that he defigned the next day, by
cvvilighc
of the morning,
to a!fault the
Army
of
Almagro
on the
Eaft..
fide of the Camp,
vhich>
by
reafon
chat