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Commentaries.
de th. telling
Peter
de!
Bdrco
particularly, who was the
!aft.ofthe three which
he
ha~ged;
That in regard he had been
a
Captain, and on
e of ~he
C?nquerours of
that Councrey; and was
a
perfon of quality, and one of the _richelt
m
thofe parts,
he would grant him this privilege at
hls
death ,
~o c~ufe
which of the boughs
be
pleafed
for his
gallows. But to
Lewu
de
Leon .
his.Life
was
~anteg
at
the
lnter–
ceffion of
a
brother f his, who
was
a Sould1er
m.Gonf alo Ps2arro.s
Army,
and
who begged it
as
a pecial
grac~
and.
fa
your unto him.
.
.
The Judges being terrified w1th this piece
of
Cruelty , and
fean~g
left
the hke
fentence fhould be executed on all the others who
~ere th~n
m pnfon , and that
the
City
!h0uld be given up for a prey
t~
the Sould1ery, m cafa. they deferred
longer to perform
t
eir
dema ds. They w1th
all
earnefineiS fenc to the perfons to
whofe Counfels they had referred themfelves in this matter, t_hat they !J1ould
im–
mediately give in their opinions: whereupon every one,
mrmme contradicente,
gave
their
V
ores
char the Government fhould be conferred on
Gonfalo
Pif.arro;
which
the Judges infiandy made known to him.' forrendting up to
hlm all
the
Power
_of
that
Province unri!l fuch time as his Ma1ell:y's pleafure fhould
be
known
t~em :
And hereupon they renounced their CommHiions
of~~aring
and.
decerrninin~
Cau–
fes
and refigned all into the Governours hands, giving fecancy to refide m the
Cicy and fit on che Bench, and hear
all
Caufes
and Aetions of complaint which .
fhouid
be
brought before them. Thus
far
Augu.
[fine.deCarate.
And here we
will
cut fuort the Thread of thi
s D1fcourfe, left we fhould feem
over cedbus
in
this Chapter.
.C HA P.
XIX.
Gon~al
Pi\arro
i:S
proclainzed Governour of
Peru,
His En–
try
into
the
City of
Los
Reyes.
The death
of
Captain
Gumiel.
The Citizyns of
Cozco
are
{et
at
Liberty.
T
HE
execution of
Pedro del B11rco, Martin de Florenda,
and
{ohn
d6
Saavedra
made a great noife, and was occafion of much difcontenr and murmurings
both
in
the City and in the Camp: for ( as
D iego
Fernande~
de Carvap tl
reports
in
the
twenty
fifth Chapter of
his
Book) the people apprehended, chat
as
Franci.fco
de
Carvajal
had
been
[o
bloudy as co
kill
thofe three, he would farther proceed in his
Tragedy to the deach of
all the
others who were imprifoned for the like caufe: fur
which reafon many of ·the Citizens of
Rimac
and Captains and Souldiers of the
Army
made their Addreifes to
Gon9a!o Pi9arro,
befeeching him not to fuffer the
effufion of
fo
much Noble Bloud, and of perfons who had been Inll:ruments and
engaged in the Conquell: of the Empire ; for fuch an
Aet
ofCruelty would render
him
odious
ro
the whole World. Whereupon
Gonfalo Pi2arro,
who was
a
per–
fon of
a
render and flexible nature, gave immediately
a
very
rich
Medal and
a
Ring to
be
carried to
Fr4ncifco
Carvajal
(who well knew that both of them belon–
ged
to
Pif arro)
to ferve
for a
token and fign
to
him to defifl:
from
farther fpil...
ling of Bloud.
But as
co
the particulars of what
is
related farther concerning the death of tbofe
men whom
Carv ajal
put to death; I have learned frotn rhofe who were then pre–
f~t,
that thofe Citizens were put to death folely by the
will
and authority of
Car–
va1al,
\:'ithout
t~e
order, privity
~r
knowledge of
Gon2alo Plf1trro.
For all the
Commiffion
~hKh
he had
was
this, that he <hould goe, and quiet the p·eople ;
for underfl:andmg that
all
the
City
being in great confl:ernation were ready to a–
~~ndon t~e pl~ce;
he fent him with Orders to pacifie them, (hat they might re–
JOlC~
at his .f}rnval.
Ca:vajal ,
who well enough underllood his meaning replied
to him ,
fa~mg,
I prom1fe your Lordfuip, that I
will
fo
order Matters, that .they
,
f
hall be .obliged to goe _forth and meet you
:
to perform and make good his word,
(
accord1.ngto the Martial
\Vay
of expreffion ) he hanged the threemen
in
the
way
where Piptrro
was to pafs, which he called the meeting of him, and fah:J, that this
wa