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Royal
Commentaries.
BooK
IV.
Diego
Centen~
lrad
firfr _fee
up his
St~ndard.
-
Bob11dilla
was the Me!fenger
hereo~
and upon
t~is
occafion
1t
may be pertment to our purpofe not to omit a articular
paifag€ which
h~ppe~ed
hereupon, that a matter [or markable may not be for–
gotten. There hved m
Areqmpa
a vertuous and charitable Woman,
called
'f
o.tnn.1.
of
Leyton,
ho bad been
a
Servant
to
the
Lady
Cat11/ina Leyon
a Woman of as
no~le
a
FamiJy.
as any
is
of chat name in the Kingdom of
Porr~1gal,
and
\x.
as th
W
1fe of
Eranci[co
de Carva;al,
thou~
fome, to
re~d
r her odious, \
ill
have
her
to
have been
his
Whore; but certainly fhe
was
h1s
ife, and greatly efieemed
by her
Husband,
and all
the Nobility of
feru,
and
indeed her Perfon and
ertues
and noble Birth did deferve no lefS.
'
This
Lady bred
up
and maintained this
[oanna Leyton
for
fo
long
a
time that at
length ilie took that name, and called her felf
Leyton;
and then
afterw~ds
mar–
ried
her
to
a
perfon of honour called
Francifco
Yofo,
and fbe
was
a Perfon of
fo
great honour that
FrancifCo
Carvajal
loved her as
his
m
n Daughter. During thefe
troubles
and
rev~lutions
caufed
by
Gony_4lo
Piftm:o
fhe al ,,
y
favoured
the
ing's
fide, and often mterceded
for
forne of them with her Mafl:er
Carva1at;
others
fhe affified with her Money, and fome fue concealed in her Hou e, and particu.
lady lbe hid three at t!hat time when
Go»f41o
Pifarro
fir(l:
entred into
Rimac \:
ith
that llaughter and impr.ifonment of people which we have before related.
Fr11.n–
cifco
de
ca-~vajal,
whoie knowledge nothing efcaped, took her afide, and asked her
where thof
e
three men were which fhe
had
hidden ; ilie denied to know of any,
but he confidently charging her with
it,
and naming one of them, whom he
fu..
f
petted,
lhe
was fo confounded, that
!he
could
not
longer
perfift
in
the denial;
-and therefore,
taking
a manly courage, it is true, faid fhe, they are in fuch a
Chamber, and I
will
bring them to you with a Knife, that you may cut their
Throats
and drink
thfir
Bloud,
and eat their Ftefh, that fo you may be glutted
and fatiated with humane Bloud after which you are
fo
thirfiy: and
fo
being
juft
going away,
Carvajal
ealled her, and faid, let them alone, let them alone, and let
me alone alfo, and the Devil take thee : and thus
'f
oanna Leyton
gained her point
and vi&my over him. This, relation I received from one of the greatefi: enemies
that
Carvajal
had, but a perfon of great probity,
called
Gon falo Silveftre,
of
whom
we have
formerly
made menrion.
Some fhort time after
chis
foanna
de
Leyton
went to live at
Areqttepa,where
Dio11.Jfio
de
Bobadil/11,
brought the
Heads
of·
Lope
de
Mendofa, Nrcho!tU de
Eredia,
and of three
or four others; and before he went
to
pay
his refpecrs
to
Pedro
de
Frw1tn,
who
was Governour of that City under
Gonfalo Pifarro,
he made a Hit to this
{Mn11a
Leyton,
believing that fhe would gladly hear of the health of her Mafier
Francifco
tit.
Carvaptl.
The Lady received him with a good welcome, and having
firfl:
paffed
the ufual complements at meeting, and made enquiry after the welfare of her–
Lord, ilie
earnefily
entreatt!d
Bobadilla
to
deliver the Head of
Lope
de
M~ndofa
inro
her
hand
that fbe might have the fatisfaltion to bury
it
in fuch manner as be–
came a perfon of his merit and loyalty to his
King ;
but
Bobadilla
excufed himfelf,
faying, chat he durft not doe
it,
for that fhe well knew the fevere humour of
Carva;al
his Lord, who would for fuch an offence hang him and quarter him ; but
fhe fHll
continued her importunity, and defired him for
od's fake
to
let her have
it,
and that !he
\l\'Ould
give him
two
hundred pieces of
Eight,
wherewith he might
oblige and help one of his indigent ouldier , for \ hat good
faid ilie, can
it
doe
you, fince the Head · difmembred fr-0m the Body,
to
drag
it
through the
treets,
and fix it on the Gallo·
'S?
But
Bohadilla
ill
I
defired
her
xcufe three or four rimes
ith the fame words, and fhe continued
to
pref5 him with the greateft earnefinelS
in
the world; but at length, feeing
th~a
fhe could not prevail
ith all h r increa–
ties and
romifes, fhe gre\ angry, and then faid,
well,
fat
it
up
rhen
m the name
of
God but kpow that
yo#
had
better
have let
it
a/on~;
and
that
the two hHndred pucu
of
Eight
which
I
offered
fo r it,
J
will
employ
in Maj[es
to-
be
[aid
for
his
Soul ;
and
I
tell
thee
farther
that he, whofaever he
u,
that
u
net contented to
have
that Head hono1tra61
b11-
ried,
will
not
live
long and I hope fhortly to fee
thy
He~d
in. the place of it.
.
This difcourfe parring thu ,
Bobadilla
(a the Hifionan
fay)
wa
ready to
d1e
\\ ith
I
ghter, admiring rn h at the Dial
e
he had
ith
{omma L
ton
~d
from
er\ ·ent dire&ly to preCent che
ead to
Pedro
Je·R~
nteL
And
comn:an~mg
rhe
Jndia~u
t
unfold
l th
' herein the) ' -ere em
rappe
the
~
1t
fo
a\ -
k rdly, and
ere
fo
puzzted
at
it,
t~a
he wa . forced ro ome bimfc
If
ana
la
rh~m
en= {( me o che
:pani
ds
a
m
y,
fa1d
that
che
ad flank
but
JJof;a.d,dl/.
ma e