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Royal
Commentaries.
BooK
IV.
he Informers,
encourag~d
with. chis Anfwer, _feifed upon fifteen perfons, and
bro~ghr
them
before the Chief Julbce
Peter
Martin
de
Cecilia,
otherwifecalled
Don
Bemto,
f<
r
he
~a
called by both thofe names, who would have put them
on
th
" rack , and paffed
m
nee of condemnation on the leafl: word of confeffion
f~
pa{h n rely zeal u he
·~· a
for the Caufe of
Pifarro,
but
Lorenfo de
Aldana
~ho
w
a
~
Man of
m~
h
more moderation, freed them from his hands, and
fen~
them
to
h .
O\'-"O
Lod mgs, on pretence of
fa
fer cufiody, '' here having
allm\ ed
them
all thmg nece
ry
he afterwards·, under pretence of banifhmem
conveighed
them a ay upon a
hi
which he had
p1o~ided
.for them
5
and°unde; the
ea} of
f<
crecy ga
e
them a{Iurances of his
goo~
mcenuon , to \
11
:hich they formerly
had
not been {hangers.
But
the Party
P1
fttrro
'
as
not contented
ith
rhis
eafie
way of punifhment,
hue
rather hi hly
offend~d ~hereat
; and therefore reprefen–
ce.d
Lorenfo
de
Alda1M
u~t?
Ptfarro.,_
as
a per on mclmed o the concrary Party; but
P1f~rro
fe_
med not \V1lh g
t~
g1. e ear thereunto.,
ither becaufe
he \\
ould
not
behe
e him
to be other than
his
fnend ; or thar being
fo
far
dill:ant from him
as
~iru,
thought it imprudent to manifefi hi d1fpleafure and refencmems againfl:
a
per n
fc
''ell beloved and generally efteemed by the people. By chi
time the
'
f
the Infune
ion of
Diego Centeno,
with what had fucceed din the
Chamu
was come
to
the kno
v
ledge of
Gflnfalo
Pt
pirro,
"ho conceived it
a
matter of high
impo1 tan e., and of
a more
dangerou c nfequence than the trouble at
L o1 Reye1
·and therefore afrer c n ulrarion held
ith hi
fficer , he
gave an immediate Com:
miffion
to
Fr.,mcifco
Cari11yal
tO
g
and
fuppre~
th
e commotions;
in
\\hi
In
refi
lution the gen
raliry of all
the
fficer concurred ,
a
being the mofi brave
and
mofi experienced Captain
f
the Army; thoagh in reality, being weary of his
un–
eahe tern er they \.\'ere defirou to b rid of him
that they might ha,·e the grea–
ter hand
m
the rule of affair . Thu
Carvaptl
\
1
1th a feleet: number onely of
rn
en–
cy
Horfe m \\horn he repofed the greateft confidence departed from the
Con.
fines of
~it11,
and ame
to
r.
Michael
, '
·here outwardly he was received ,
ith
high dernoolharion of honour and refpea: from the Peo le. Howfoever he took
fix of the Chief overnours, and ha ing feverely reproved them for their
perfi–
dy and
falfene~
to
Gonfalo Pifarro,
and for their affection and
zeal
to the
Vice..
king ;
he told them that he refolved once to put
all
their
icy
to
fire, and fo:ord,
and not to leave one
an, Woman or Child alive therein : but confidering
that
chi
was not
an a
of rhe gene ality or of the common people, but onely of
thofe
ho "ere their Head and Rulers ; he therefore refolved to puniili the fault
and
crime
in
them,
~horn
he efleemed
to
be the
rincip3l
Inftruments; and
hav~
ordered chem to make their Confeffion to ..he
Prielt,
he caufi done of them,
who
was
a
lerk, and had fealed the Warrants and
rder which the
ice-king
had
fent
a road
to be executed , but the others , by the earnell: Addreffi and
lici–
tation of their
Wive
and other Relations efcaped, and by the
r yers of F1
iars
and
riefi who arnealy interceded in their favour obtained th
ir
ardon:
how–
foever
he
banifhed them from the Province, confifcated their
Jndum1,
and
fine
them in four thoufand
iece of
ight a piece; thence he ma ched ro
Truxillo
ga–
thering in his way all the Men and Money he \ as able : he laid
Taxes
on the peo–
ple, and gathered them
m
hafie, and
then he
pa!fed
tO
Los
Re
·es,
where he
formed
a
Body of above
t
o hundred Men, and rook the road to
Coi::.co
by \ ay of
t
.e
defarc, and being come to
Huamanca
,
a
fome Authours fay , he brought
that
place under Tribute, and made them pay the Impofitions \Yhich he laid
upon
chem..
Whilft
thefe Matters were
in
agitation, there were delign plotting in
L_os
Reyn
to take away the
Life
of
Lorenfo
de
Aldana
·
for
at
that time people
we~e
fo
u ea
fie and unquiet , that upon every frnall occafion they ":ere ready
.to
~Y
mto a mn#
tiny , and onfpire again
fl:
their Governours , for
~
h1ch the
pr~nci ~l
Amhours
were put to death. And this
was
the third Plot which
~'as
concnyed
m
Loi
Reye1,
which ended with the death of three or four of the chief Confp1rarours, and
of
five or
fix
more than in
H11amanca,
with
Francifco de
Carva1al,
\\ho being
accufed
by thofe in
Los Reyes,
\
ere upon their confeffion put
to
death..
It
was
in
Htutm~
ca
alfo
where
Carva1al
received the
New
of the .retreat of
Dugo Centeno,
and
c~e
Attacques which
Alonfo
de
-i:oro
.had made upon him, and
th~t
ne'
3
return
d
\IC#
carious to
Coz:co :
upon which mtelligence
Carva1al
thought
It
no~
n
ceffary
o prCY
ceed
farther;
confidering that
Diego
Centeno
was retired
:
for
whICh caufe, and be#
caufe he was not willing
co
meet with
Alo11fo
de
Toro,
he
refc
lved
to return
to
Loi
Reyfl,