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tefi
feveri.ty: and accordingly
it
was concluded amongfl: thofe who were unconcer–
ned
in this fafe Condutl: and Pardon; to
kill
Gafpar
4e
Ri;a.;, Philip de
Gutiere~,
. the fon of
Alonfo de Gutiere
,
·ho wa Treafurer
t?
.his
I,v1.a1eH:~
and
~~rn
at
.Ma–
drid
and alfo
Aria&
.ll-fald~nado-
Gentleman of
Ga!ttta,
wbo,
wlth
Phibp
Gutierc:1:.,
had'loitered two or three days Journey behind in
Guamanga,
upon pretence of cer–
tam bufineffes to be done there in order to their Journey ; but during their ftay at
that place
Gony_alo
Piftt rro
dif
peeded
Pedro de P1telles
with a
party
of Horfe to take
off their
Heaas :
bot the execution of
Gajpar
Rodriguez:.
was more difficulr, for he
v~
as then a Captain in the
ield,
a~d
aCl:ually at. the head of almofi two hundred
Lan es, and being a IJerfon ' .ry
nch,
of
~reat
mterefr, and very popular, they
could not act their defi n
pubhckly
upon him, and therefore hey had recourfe to
rhis Strategeme.
G~nptlo
PJ_rarro
comn:~mded ~n
hundred
an~
fifty
Harqtiebufiers
of Captain
Cermenno
Company to be m a_read1i:ie£S, and
having
given om to each
of them private Arms, and
l.aced the Artillery m good order,
he
called the Cap–
tains
to
come
to
him, tellin
them that he
had
certain advices, which he had late–
ly received from
LoJ Reyes,
to communicate
to
them~
And being all come, and
amongfi the reft
Ga(par
RMrigue;;::,,
Gonfalo Pifarro
fiept out of his Tent, which was
well guarded with Cannon
1
and pretending a
it
were fome other bufinefs, in the
mean time the Major-General
Carva}'l:tl
cromes to
Gafpar
Rodrigue~,
and laying
his
hand on the hilt of his Sword, drew it out of the Scabbard, advifing him to call
for a Priefi: and confefs, for that he "vas to die immediately :
·Gafpar
•Rodrigue~
re–
fified a while, pretending
to
be innocent, and to clear hirnfelf of chofu accufacions
which were again!l: him ; but that would not ferve his urn, for immediately they
cut off his head.
The execution of thefe men terrified the whole Cam , and more particularly
thofe who were confcious to themfelves of being Complices in ch·e fame Attion
for which rhofe were put to death ; and thefe aets
of
feverity were t\le more af–
frighting becaufe they were the
full:
which
Gonfalo
Pifarro
had committed fince the
ufurpation of his tyrannical Power.
ome few days afterwards,
Doh
Baltafar
and
his Comrades came t
he Camp bringing
Balta{ar
de
:Loayfa
and
Hernando
CavaluJf,
(as we have faid) Prifoners
~
but the
day
before he knew that they were to enter
into the Camp, he fenc his Major General
Carvajal
before hirn, with orders thac
wherefoever he met them he iliould put them to death: bat fuch was the good
fortune of
Loayfa
and
Cavallos,
that they millaking their way, the Major General
was difappointed of his prize, and the Prifoners were brought to the Camp, where
fo
many interceffours appeared in favour of the two Delinquents, that
Loa>fa
was
relea[ed and fent away without any provifion made for him, but
Hernando
de
Ca–
vallos
was
continued, and carried away with the reft of the Army. Thus far is
the account given
by
Garate
in the
fifth
Book and the eleventh Chapter.
In
fine,
they
killed
Gafpar
Rodrigue~
and
his
Accomplices, whofe death was
ha–
fiened and occaGoned by their applications to the Vice-king for a Pardon and a
fafe
Condutt, which he and his adherents demanded
fi
r fafecy of then- lives
as
Gomara
confirms in the
164th
Chapter of his Book; The Vice-king's
Pardo~
an9 a fafe Conduet was general for all,
Pifarro, Francifco
de
Carvajal,
Benito
de
Car-
11a1al
and fome few others onely
ex~epred ~
at which
Pi_farro
and
his
Major-General
wer~
fo
rn~ch
offended,
th~t
they 1mmed1ately hanged up
Gafjar
Rodrigue~,
Philip
Gutiere;;::,
with the refi; .which are the words of
G<rmarfl.
In this manner this poor
Gentleman
Gajpar
Rodri,gue:1:.
de
Campo Rotondo
ended his days· for being of an
un·
quiet fpirit, he was neither well with thofe who were
called
Tyrants
and Rebels
nor with chofe who
were
efieemed for Loyalifis.
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CHAP.