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Royal Commentarits.
BOoK
IV.
ned afterwards to
Per11,
where he declared the many hardfhips
they had
fufrained
in that difcovery.
.
An~
upon this occafion I take leave to report a firange accident, which befell
a cercam Gentleman named
Don
'f
ohn
de
lW.endofa,
.
of
w~om
me made mention in
a
for~e~ Ch~pter,
and
horn I knew an lnhab1tanc m
Cozco;
which
ftory,
be–
~aufe
rt
i
curmus, and perhaps not rarely happening in the world before, >ris
fit
.
rt iliould be knot\ n, and the memory thereof conferved.. This Gentleman I
fay
TtrafJrcam:ios
upon a fofem
efrival, throwing the Darr on Horfeback
in
the Market-place of'
11
a port zn
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c:
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c
h
f
h
Spai n
much
LvJ.e::1co
e1ore
e pancu
co
Pet'u?
1or
e
wa
one
d
r ofe
allan
~ ho
accom...
ufed on Horfe-
pamed the
fc
n ous
D on Pedro de Alvarado,
and running with hi Horfe .full fpeed
hac~ ,
and
jafr
as he.was rifing on hi frirrups to tbl'ow his Dart ' ith aJl hi force, his
Horf~
fVhrch tje
on a
fu
en made a full
flop,
and he being a tall and
a
llimm man -and weak in
te~~~~-:J
1:
0111
the
k~e
, wa cafl: over the Hor[e .head,
\~: ith h~
feer hanging in the llirrups,
the
Moor
and
h1
ban~
o_n the ground to fave
~1s
fa
e ; m
wh1
h condition he
had ran great
ufed alfo
hy
haz rd-
o~
h1
life, hacl
net
fome
Friend
who ' ere near him, (
amongfl:
which
the
T urks.
my
Lord and Maller
Garfilaf{o de la
Vega
wa
one )
come timely
to
his
affifiance.
Pardon
thi
fhort
digreffion for the !hangenef of the
accident;
and
fo
we
fhall
remrn again
to
our
Hiltory.
During the time that the
Vice-king
remained a
Prifoner
at the Hland, which is
diflant
about two leagues from the Port,
D <Yti
A lonfo
de
M onte-mayor
( as
Auguftine
de
Carate
reports in the twelfth Chapter of his fifth Book )
together '
ith thofe
who were fent in purfuit of Father
Loa {a
returned, fo rne
of
which
the
]
udges
feifed up n and imprifoned, and others
of
them they difarmed, and imprifoned
them
with feveral
others~
ho came
from
Co~co
in the
H oufes
of
Ca
rain
M artin
de
R oble.r
and
of
other Citizens; and being thu ill-created, they laid a Plot to kill
the
]
udges and
fet
the
Vice-king
at liberty, refioring
him to his po er
and
au–
thority, which they contrived in this manner:
le was
ordered that in the night
fame Mufquets fhould be fired in the Houfe of
M artin
do
Roble.r,
which iliould
be a Ggnal
to
Serjeant
Fr1'ncu
de
Aguirre,
who then kept Guard in
L icenciado
Ce–
peda's
Houfe to kill him, and immediately
to
polfefs and keep the a enue aod
corners of every Street with Souldiers,
and
fend a
Party
into
the
Market-plac-e,
which giving an alarm to Doltour
Texada
and
Licenciado
Alvare~
'
t.isprobable
they would
come
forth
to relieve
Cepeda,
when they would be read
1
o kill
them,
od
then they would
immediately
raife
the
City anef declare
for
the King ; the
which had certainly fucceeded accordingly., had not
ne ' ho " as a
ative
of
Madrid,
and
appointed
to
aa
in the Plot, difcovered all to
Cepedn,
a
Ut
an
hour
. before the defign was to be put in exe
tion.
Imr ediately hereup n
Cepeda
i1fu.
ed out W arrants to feife the
ief
of th fe who \ ere concerned in the Plot, name–
ly
Don
A umfa
de
Monte-ma or,
1ml
de
M enefes
a Citizen of
T alavera,
aptain
Car–
cere.r, Alonfa de
Barrionuroo,
with others, who were
ervant
to
the Vice-king;
and having examined the matter
Barrionuevs
wa condemned to die, but upon
farther conftderation, his Sentence "'as to have his right Hand cat off, having
been the firfi conn·iver in this Confpiracy ; and thus this infurreetioh was fuppref-
fed. Thus
far
Garate.
.
To which we may farther add, That though the Judges found divers others
guilty of that mutiny
1
whom they might ju!Hy have punHhed with death, yet not
to appear bloudy anct tyrannical, which
might
be occafion
of
new Pl ts and Con–
fpiracies, and alfo upon the interceffion of div.ers principal Perfons of the
Cicy
of
Los
Reyes,
they altered the Sentence againft
Barriomuroo,
as we ha e before declared,
and
banifhed
Alonfa
de Monte-ma.Jor
and others
his
Complices
from
the
City
into
divers parts Northwards from thence. All which afterward joyned with the Vice–
king, and accompanied him in all his misfortunes, which proved che ruine
of
ma–
ny of them. After
hich
Cdrate
proceeds on with the Hillary in this manner,
-
The news of thefe paffages as they every
day
fucceeded
w
re carried to
Gonf~lo
Pi9arro,
fuppofing that upon intelligence of t?efe f!latters he
w
ul~
re(ently dif–
band his Army : but he was
far
from that
mtent1on
be
aufe
he imagined that
the rumour of the Vice-king;>s imprifonment was divulged
wit~
defig!'
to
difperfe
bis People, that being abandoned and deferted
by
all,
they
might d1fpofe of h!S
own
Perfon
at their pleafure; which caufed him co k ep hi Force together, and
to march
more
orderly and cautioufiy than before. But
Licenciado Alvare2::..,
wht>
was embarked with the Vice-king, being confcious co himfelf that he had been a
chief
promoter and aetour in
die
defigns againft him, and
~n
the
puniOun~~