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Royal CommentarieI.
r8croK
IV.
~ead
was
expofed ,
or at
l~a!l:
that
he
confented thereunto :
but the truth
1s,
he
was
t~ouble~
at
the achon, and
_that
fo
foon
as he was informed there–
of he
g~ve
1mmed1ate order
to
have
it
removed ; . the
which is confirmed
by
the
te~1mony
_of
Gomara:
but
fla~tery an~ ~a~ti~lity
to a
fide
is
always
preva–
lent wtCh Wnters,
who
by
addmg or
d1mm1fhmg can
make
a
fiery
tum
whi
h
way foever they
pleafe.
Gomara,
f
peaking
of
the death
of
the Vice-king faith.
That
whe~ Hernan~o
de Torres
had
with
a
l;low fiunned
BLafco
Nun:ie~
and
knocked him
from
his
Hor[e,
and (as
many
believe)
unknown co
him by reafon
that he
was
under
the d.iCguife
of
an
Indian
habit
1
Herrera
the Confelrour
to
Pi–
farr?,
came
to
confefs
l~1m;
and fir!l:
aske~j
who
he was,
to
which
B/11/Co
Nunne:e.
replied,
rhat
that
qu~!hon
was
not material;
for he
was
ro doe his Office
which
, he delired
him without
farther queries
to
perform; for
he was afraid
~f
fome
corments
and cruelties
would be committed
on his
perfon.
Thus far
Gomar"
!hen came the Executioners and
cuff
off his head and expofed
it
on
the
gallows :
and
fome rude
and infolent Souldiers
drew
out
fome
hairs
from
his beard·
and~
dif
dain
and
~riumph ~aid,
Your crue.l
and
paffi~nate tempe~
hath
brought
you to
this: a cercam
Captam of my
,acquaintance
earned fome
harrs of his beard about
· him
for feveral days, untill they were
taken from him
by
order.
Thus
did
this
unfortunate Gentleman end
his
days , for infifiing too earnefily on thofe methods
which were neither agteeable
to
the confritution
of
the Kingdom, nor yet to
th~
fervice
of
the
IGng,
whence
that effufion of
bloud
enfoed and thofe many
com–
motions
as
have been related
in
the preceding Hiftory: and
which proved
fatal
as
well
to
lndiam
as
to
Spaniard1,
as
will
alfo
farther appear
in
the
fequel of
that Re–
lation
which
fiill remains. And though his
obfiinacy
in
this
point
is
much bla..
med
by many,
yet
certainly
he
is in part
co
be excufed
on account of
th~fe
pre–
cife and fevere commands he brought from Court, and
which
he was
by
the
fu.
preme power enjoined
to
execute; as
will
be proved
by
the tefiimony of
thofe
Authours whom we ihall hereafter have occafion to name ; and as he
himfelf
did
often
fay,
as before mentioned.
CH AP.
.XXXV.
The Funeral
of
the Vice-/Jng.
·
The
A?Jions
of
Gon~alo
Pi–
~arro
after
the Battel.
The
Pardon
he gave to
Vela
N
unnez,
and of the good Laws he enafled for the better
Governnzent of that
J{ingdo11i.
G
Onfalo Pifarro
feeing that
he
had
gained
-a
clear
Vit"tory,
cauf~d
the
Trumpets
to
fauna
a retreat:
for
he perceived that his
peop.Jewere greatly difperfed
in the
purfuit , whereby much
bloud
was
nneceffarily
fpilt : on the fide
?f
che
Vice-king
two
hundred men
were !lain, and
not
above feven of
the
Sould1ers of
Piyarro,
as
Carate
reports :
becaufe
the
people
of the
Vice-
king were
fo
tired and
weary with
their long
march
the
oight
before,
~hat
they feemed
~acher
to
fuffer
themfelves
to
be killed than
to
fight; and herem
hey
fhewed their great
zeal
~o
his Majefiy, and their
readinefs
to
di~
in
his
fer
vice. The
bo~Hes
of the
flam
w.ere
buried
promifcuoufiy coget.her
m the field
whe.rethey
died,
_iix
~r
feven
Corpfe
being
laid rogether in the Grave : but the bodies. of the
Vice-
kin~
,
of
Sancho
Sanche~
a
Avila,
of
Licenciado Gallego,
and
of
Captat!l
Cepeda,
a Nauve of
Plafencia,
were
brought
to
rhe City, and
there
folernnly interred
~
and.
Gonfal~
Pifarro,
and
the other
chief Commanders attended
the
Corpfe, cloathed
m mour·
ning
and carrying fadnefs
in
their countenances. The perfons wounded .were
DM.
Alonfa Je Monte Mayor, Sebaftian
Governour of
Belalcttfar,
Hernande~
Giron:.
~t
of
Caceres,
Car11te
makes
no -mention , though
Djego
F'rnande~
fpeaks
of hun
10
thefe words ;
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