734 / 1060
,
Royal
Commentaries.
BooK
IV.
one ;
to
whotn Major
Gene
rvajal
fent order,
that he
fhould
at that
inllant
cbnfefs
and make his lall: W
d Tefiament; for rhat
it
was decreed he fhould
ptefemly
be
put
to death.
Carvajal
with all
readinefS
fubmitted to the
fentence.
and began to prepare
himfelf
for the fame; the Executioner fi:ood
by
him with
his Halter and Gibbet,
and urged him
td
finifh his Affairs,
howfoever he confr.
nued fomething long
in
his confeffion
:
no quefiion but
he expetted
to
dye with–
out any
reprieve : howf
oever
fuch
as confidered the quality of his
perfon
and
con–
dition
were
of opinion, that he ought not
to
have been
brought under
thofe cir–
curnfiances ;
but fince
it
had
Co
fallen out ;
it
would be
dangerous
to
fuffer
him
ro
ltv~:
but then
it
was confideted, that in cafe
Carvajal
were put
to
death ma·
ny of chofe who were now
in
cuftody
would
follow the fame fate, which
~ould
be a
great
lofs
to
the Kingdom
to
be deprived of the mofl: principal perfons
thereof
who had
always
been faithfull
to
the Interefl: of his Majefiy.
Whilfi
Licenciade
CahJtJJal
remained under thefe fad apprehenfions,
certain
fo–
Der petfons went
co
GOfJ_J~do
Pifatro,
and told
him that
it
were
well to confider
in
this cafe
how
great
an
Intereff the
Licenciado
Car vajal
had in his Comrey; and
that the Agent
Carvc;y~d,
who was his
brother,
was put
to
death by
the Vice-king
fur
tto other caufe or rea0h, than
becaufe
his man follo\: ed the party and fide of
Pirti1rt(},
al1ti
theref
ote , for the very
metit
of his brother, and for the fervices of
tnis
~tfoo,
he
fhouk1
fpare
his
life
who
was arrd
might
be of great ufe and
be–
nefit
M
hin'l
fut
the futute. And
as
eo
the
efcape of
Vaca
de
Caftro
all rhe World
as
well
!Atisfied, That fleither
L icenciado Carvajal
nor
the
others
~ho
were
impri–
funed
upon
fu$id0n
w~e
concerned
herein ;
and that all
this
jealoufie
did arife
from
the
Vainceofures
offO'rtle people, for
which th&'e
wa
no jufi
caufe
or ground.
To
all which
Detl (ation
Gonyalo
Pt'farro
anfwered
little, but
feerned angry
and
difiu
bed,
tommandi
~ that none
fhou
move him farcher in that matter. Here–
upon
Carvajal
and
his
Frien.dsrefolved
to
proceed another way
5
which
was
by
meatls of
th€ Major
G
epetal,to
whom they
fecretly
prefeored
a Wedge
-0f
gold
t9
the
value
-Of
two thouflmd pieces of Eight, and promifed him much more ;
the
wbich
Having
accepted,
he
began
to
be
a little backward
and
cold
in
the exe–
curiotl
of
the
ft:!ntehce
j
and
~
ent
and t:ame
fo
ofren, untill at length, both
Carva–
jftl
al\d -all the
othei-s
who were
irnprifoned were
fee
at liberty: So this matter
be–
ipg
-over, they
began co
contrive the
manner,,
how
Hernando
Bachicao
might be
dif~<thed
a
wa.~
,
as was
agreed
:
for which
there
now happened an opportunity
by the
~rival
of a
Br~dnrine
from
A reqdef a
,
which being freighted for this
pur–
pofe
and
cr-rmed
with
lOme
of
the Cannon
hich
Gonfafo
Pifarro
brought
from
Oot co ;
'iltfcbioao
embarked
t'hereupon,
and
ith him Doetmir
Te«ada
and
Francifto
MttltlrJnado, '
itl1
about fixty NfolR}uetiers
who
offered
themfelve
olunrariJy
on that
vei~.
And
cl
us
coa{l:ing alohg the {hoar, upon
information
that the
ice·king
was at
T umbe:t.
j
he arrived
early
one morning in
chat
Port;
where being efpyed
by fome people belonging to
the
Vice-king an Allarum was prefemly given, that
G onf afo P ip1.rro
with a
{hong
force
was
coming
by
ea; which pm them all
into
that
crffiightn1euc
and
-ronftermttion,
that-the
Vice-k-ffig with all
his
fer-c--e,
-confi..
fiing
of about a hundred and fifty men
fled
away to
~itu ;
but fome
of
them
remained
behind to
receive
Bachicao,
who took
two
Ships
which he found
in
the
Port, and with
them
fa
ed
!O
P,uerto
Viejo,
where,
and
in
other parts
he raifed
about a hundred and
fifty
men whom he
embarked
aboard his Ships; but the
Vice-king
without
other
flop
or fray hafiened
to
~itu.
Thus far
Auguftine Ga–
rate,
who
a h
made
cl€ar feveral
Paliages
which were confufed and obfcure in
oth~
Wrirers.
l3ut now oo return to the Ingot ofGold which
Francifco
Carvajal
received;
It
is
certain tbat he made a Trade of fuch Bribes as thefe, where
the Accufacion
was
falfe , and then he would fufpend
the
Execution of the entence , untill means
were made
with
Gonfalo Pi
f arro
for a
Pardon , and
in this manner he gor great
fums
of
money :
but
in
cafe
che
crime objetl:ed
were true ,
than
nothing
cQuld
nevru
·th
h)m , neither
Preform
nor
Io
treaties ,
to
delay the
f
peedy
execution
of
Jufiice:
if
or
1
he
was
zealous and faithfull to his Parry, both in puoifhment of
Enemies ,
abd
ili
me
g-obd
tteattment
and reward of
Friends
and Abetrour
of his
Catl'fe: brttHifiorians-give him the Charaeter of a molt covetous and cruel
per–
fon:
'tis
true,
Ire had
bofh
one .and rhe
orher
in his
nacure,
but
not
in
fo
high
degree !as
is
reported ;
for though he
was guilty of
great effafions of
blou9 ,
yet
it
wasfor
the
advancemem
and
fecuricy of
his
own
parEy,
which he aeted
10
pur·
fuance