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Commentaries.
BooK
IV.
private
correfpo~d~nce.
with
Pifa r:o,
he caufed them to be run through with a
Lance-: though it is fa1d for cercam, that chey were not guilry at lean
p
·
· d L
r.
h
,
u
ictflrro
ne-
ver
.r~ce1ve
etters
1ro1!1
t
em: and about the fame time alfo, and upon the like
fufp1non he caufed
Rad-ngo
de
Ocampo
to be fiabbed
V\
1
ith a Dagger . thou h h
'~as
innocent o.f that
T~eafon
of whic.h he was
fu_fpe~ed
; and in
r~lity deferv~d
~1ghly
from
h1~,
havmg adhered faithfully
to
him m all his Troubles : And be-
1~g
come
to
~stu,
he.gave Orders to
~i~enciado
Alvare-t
to hang up
Gome~
Ef/a–
cto
and
Alva~o
de Carvaptl,
who
~e~e
Cmzens of
Guayaquil,
pretending that they
bad a Confprracy
to
rake away his
life,
&c.
Thus far
Gomara.
.
Tbis great effufion of Bloud and Slaughter gave much caufe of offence ro the
pe~ple
of
Peru,
who every where fpoke
~gainll:
the Vice-king and his Cau[e;
fayrng, that he was
no~~
man to be dealt wuh, who thus upon every light occa–
fion,
o~·
the lean: fufpic1on co_uld put men
to
death ; and therefore many fell off
from his party , and denyed h11n the affifience they otherwife defigned him
for
fear of incurring the like fate with others.
'
Bat now, leaving the Vice-king in
f2.!:!it1t,
and
Gonfalo Pi ptrro
in purfuit ofhim
we
ih~ll
relate the
fucce~s
of tho(e Affairs which paITed in the Kingdom
of~;~
tu,
wnh what happened m the Provmce of the
CharcM,
which are Countreys above
feven hundred Leagues diltant each from the other, and are the utmofi: confines
of
Peru:
which is wonderfull
to
confider that thefe quarrels iliould extend
fo
far
as to influence Affairs at
fo
far a difiance.
>
CH AP. XXVII.
The death of
Francifco
de Ahn
ndras.
The lnfurreRion
of
Diego
Centeno.
The Oppofition which
Alonfo
de
Toro
1nade againfi
it:
and
the defeat
he
gave
hin1.
4tT
TE
have already mentioned, how that many of the Inhabitants of the
Cicy
VV
of
Plate,
whom the Vice-king had fummoned
co
come in
to
his affifience,
were attually on their way
to
him_, but hearing of hi Imprifonmenr, they remr–
ned to their own homes. We have al[o
fa
id, That
Gonftdo
Pifarro
had fem
Fran–
cifco de Almendr1u
\~itb
Commiffion
to
be his Deputy ; knowing him to be a
perfon truely zealous and afiecrionate
to
his Caufe ; and indeed he {hewed him–
ielf really
fo
to
be ; for having information, rhac: a principal Gentleman of thac
place called
D on
Gomez.. de
L una ,
lhould fay in hi houfe , chat ic:
~as
impoffible,
but that one day the Emperour would reign in
Peru,
he prefently took him, and
d apt him up in the common prifon,
~
ith a £hong Guard upon him: but the Cor–
poration of the City made feveral Addrdfes in his behalf which were rejetted by
Francifco
de
Almendr.:u ;
\i\
ith fome kind of
ill
language, which a certain perfon ta–
king notice of, boldly replyed, that if he would not releafe him, they would : at
which
A lmendrt:U
though highly offended, concealed his difpleafure for a while; and
at midnight, went in perfon to the prifon, and there firangled
D on
Gome~,
and draw–
ing his body
to
the Market-place, cut offhis Head, and there left the Corpfe: The
Inhabitams were
fo
greatly offended hereat, as
Carate
in the s-rh Chap. ofhis
20th
Book relates, that the fenfe thereofwas general, and efl:eemed to be a common con–
cernment; and particularly one called
Diego Centeno
;
who was a Native of the
Ci–
ty.
Rod.rigo
rook
it
much to heart, having had a particular friendiliip for
Gome~.
And
though this
Centmo
followed the party of
Pifarro
when he made his firll: Inforrec–
tiQn,
and followed him from
Couo
to
Lo1 Re;·es,
having great interefi: in the Army,
and a Plenipotentiary for the Province of the
Ch1trcM :
yet afterwards, difcovering
the evil defigns and intentions of
Pi2arro,
he obtained leave from him ro return
to
his own eltate, and his Commana over
Indians,
where he quiedy relided un–
till
fuch time as this unhappy death of
Gome~
fell out, which firfl: moved him ro
u[e
the befi means he was abJe to free the Lives and Efiates of that people from
the opprefiion and tyranny of
Francifco
de A lmendrtU :
in order
w
hereunto he com–
municated his
defign
to
the principal Inhabitants of that Councrey, n mely,
Lope
de