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BooK
IV.
Royal
Con11nentarie1.
he was prefent when the Vice-king was
mad~
a prifoner; and that the Judges being
in
the Market-place , upon hreak of ,day fome
Mu~ket-fhot we~e
made upon
chem from a Gallery of the Vke-king s houfe, at which the
Sould1er~
who were
with
rhe
Vice-king were
fo
incenfed,
that
they .refolved to
em.erhis
houfe
?v
force and kill
all
thofe who oppofed them: but the Judges pacified them With
good'words, and
fem
Father
Ga/par de Caroaj al,
.
fuperiour of the Order
o~
St.
!Jo–
minicl
and
Antonio de Robles
,
Brother of
l l£artm de Ro6!es
,
to
let the Vice
kmg
know
~hat
they had no other intention than
on~ly
to
conferve themfelves frof!l
being cranfponed and fhipped away by force,
agam!l:
the exprefs Command ofh1s
Majefly. And chat
if
he pleafed without farther conteft to come into the great
Church, they would there attend him;
other~ife
he w.ould put himfe;lf
into
ma–
nifeft danger, with all thofe who adhered
tC?
hun. Whilft
thef~
Meffengers were
gon
co
the Vice-king, the hundred Sould1ers who were
of
his Guard forfook
him
and revolted alfo co the Judges ; and then the Souldiers , finding the en–
tran~e
open and eafie, began to plunder the Servants Chambers which were
in
the
Courc-yard. About thi$ time
Dr.
Garate,
coming out of his Chamber
ca
joyn with the Vice-king, .met the Judges in
t~e
way, and
feein~ th~t
he
co~ld
not have entrance, he went into the Church with them. The Vice-kmg, havmg
received
his
Meffage, and finding him abandoned by all thofe in whom he
had
placed che greatefi
co~fidence,
he went voluntarily into the
Chu~ch, a~d
th.ere
delivered himfelf up
mto
the hands of the Judges, who brought him co
L:ccncuuio
Cepeda's
Houfe armed as he was with his Coat of
and Ganclec7 and feeing
Cart~te
in company with the refl:;
what,
faid he, Carate,
are
you
a/fo
of
thu
Party!
arc you come al/o to ta/ze me,
in
whom
I
repofed
Jo
much confidence ?
To which he reply–
ed,
whofoever hath told y ou, that
I
am of that number Lin
;
for
it is
notorioufly k._nown
"Rlho are the pcrfonJ who tool.Jou, and who
~ep
you Prifoner.
'
Then Orders were given,
rhat the Vice·king fhould fpeedily be embarked upon one of che Ships, and
fent into
Spain;
lefl:
Gonp t!o Piy_arro,
coming thither, and findmg him in cufl:ody,
iliould
kill
him, or that the Relations of Agent
Suare~
iliould defign the
like
in
revenge for the Murrher of their Kinfman; and that what mifchief befell
him
of that
kind ,
the
fault
of
all
would be objecl:ed untO" them : and farther they
confidered, that
in
cafe they iliould fend him away without fome force or re–
ftrainc
upon him, he might return afhore, and
fall
upon them again: what
to
doe
herein they knew not, or what co refolve,
fo
that they feemed co repent of what
.
they had already done. Howfoever there was no ocher remedy now but they
rnuft proceed ; and
fo
they made
Licenciado Cepeda
their Captain General, who
>
with
a
!hong Guard, condueted the King to the
ea-fide , with intent
to
put ·
him
aboard
a Ship ;
but herein they found
fome
difficulty :
for
D iego
Alvare~
Cu–
ero
,
who
was at
that time Admiral of the Fleet, feeing great numbers of peo–
ple on the fhoar, and chat they were bringing the Vice-king prifoner,
fent Cap–
tain
GeronimfJ
Curbano
in his Long-boat armed with Small-iliot, and fame Pecre–
ro's in the head,
to
command all the Boats belonging
to
the Fleet to come a–
board the Admiral ; and with them he weor to require the Judges
to
fee the
Vice-King at liberty : but this altion produced little effetl:, onely fome
Shot
were interchanged between
the
Sea and the Town .. and
fo
the Admiral returned
a1?ain
to
his Ship. After which che
~uqges
fenc _off
a
Boat co
Cuero,
to
require
him co
furrender the Fleet to them, wHh the Children· of the Marquis
and that
then they would deliver the Vice-king into his hands to be carried away with
one
of the
S~ips; ~nd
if not, that he ':lull:
~xpell: th~
fequel thereof. This Meifage
was
earned with confenc of the VJCe-kmg by Fnar
GafPar
de
Carvajat
who at
the Ship fide openly declared it·,
in
the prefence of
Vaca de Caftro,
r;ho'was then
a Prifoner on board ; which when
Diego Alv are-r.. Cuero
heard ; andkonfidered the
da9ger the
Vice~ing
was in, he prefencly landed the Children of the Marquis
in
the Boats belonging
tO
tbe Fleet together with
Don Antonio
and his Wife·
which
being done , the Judges
farther
required a
f
urrender of the whole Fleet
~r
other–
wife
t~ey
threatned to cut off
t~e H~ad
of the Vice-king. During
chls
Treacy>
Yela l\unnez.,
Brorher of the Vtee-kmg went to and fro with
Meffaaes
between
the Admiral and
t~e
.Tudges; and feeing that
~he
Captains of the Shlps refolved
not co abandon their Charge, they returned
with
the Vice-king
to
the Cicy ender
~
very {hong Guard. Two days after which, the Captains of the Fleet received
m~elhgence,
that the)udges and .Souldiers were contriving
means how
to
fur·
pnze
the
Fleet
by
fenamg
a
!hong
~Party
of Mufquetiers in Boats to
attack chem
:
for