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made anfwer, No, Gentlemen, faid he; the Heads. of.our
Ene~~es
cut offwith
·
our
own
hands do never fiink , but rather
fineil
f
weer ,
by
which
he !hewed
himfeJf a true Schobr and Servant ro
Carvajal,
for all
his
Difciples were of the
tame
fl:amp.
Francifco de Carvajal
having thus defeated Captain
Diego
G'enreno,
and killed
Lo–
pe de Mendora,
McholM
de
Eredia,
an9 'mhers;
·a~d
having
refre~ed
bis Sou1diers
and gratifiea thofe who revolted co him at the River of
Plate.,
with Horfes, Arms
and
Money;
the
beuer
to
oblige them
m
him, he kept
his
head-quarters
ar
the
Ciry
of
Plate,
making what Money
he
was
able
to
fend to
Pifarro.
·
About this
time the
Souldiers
(of
the
Invafion)
who were many of them
noble
by
birth>,
being
afhamed
to
have
been
fo
eaftly overcome, and angry
at
the
death of
NicholM
de Eredia
their chief Commander, and other their Companions,
entered into aConfpirawy
to
revenge the fame with
the
bloud
of
Carv11,jal:
and that
cruly
in
pure revenge , and nor out of
covetoufne~
, as fome report ; but
chat
is
not probable , becau[e not long before
they
were
fo
generous
as
to
refufe
money
which
\has offered .them for their
Pay.
The
principal Confpiratours were
Lewis
Pardomo,
Alonfo
CamarJ!.o,
and others who had formerly been pardoned
by
Carvajal,
as
we have mentioned before; and with thefe thirty others were engaged in the Plot
whofe names ate not known, and
agreed
'to kill
him on fuch
a day,
and
all
ofthem
cook an Oad1 of
Secrecy, laying
their hands on a Crucifix.
Bur
Carvajal,
who
was a fufpicious man , and carefull of his own perfon , and had many friends
who were very true m
him
came to a difcovery of the whole
Confpiraqr,
to pre...
vent
which,
he
£eized
uµon
the principal Aetou s
~herein,
and with
great
fmy
and
fnadnelS uttered in a raving
manner
thefe words, as
Diego
Fernandez..
reports;
Senior
Balmafada,
and other Cavaliers of the invafion have confpired to kill me, not–
withfl:anding my kind treatment of them,
and
the
refpelt
I <hewed them abO\
e
dre true
andloyal
Servants of
my
Gdvern©ur and Lord
Piptrro,
&c.
And
th.ushaving put fix or.[even of the principal Plotters
to
death,
he
pardo–
ned all
the refi ; buc
to
fecure himfelf from
them ,
knowing them to be defpe–
rare
men ;
he
fent them in the nature of banHhment to
Gony_alo
Pifarro
by diffe–
rent
ways,
to
whom he had lately wrote a relation of all Eaffages, and
how
his
Enemies
were
totally routed and defeated ; and about the fame
time
Franci.fco
de
Carvajal
received in exchange of his relation an account of the
Battel
at
GJ"itu
wherein the.Vice-king
was
{lain, with what elfe he had done afcer this
f~fs ~
and
how he intended
to
goe co -the
Gicy
of
Los
Reyes
,
where he delired
to
meet
Carvajal,
thanhey
might there eonfult, and agree upon foch meafures and methods
as were
to
Be
taken
for
the
fucure.
.
.
- .
T:he
fu_bfiance
of
Prancifco de
Carvajal's
Letter to
Gon~a
lo
Jli~arro,
and of hi5 Difcourfe
by
word of 11ioq,th, per–
fuacling btm
to
p
·oclaini
himfelf
King of
Petu.
And
how
others
enc-Ouraged
him
thereunto.
~
T
HIS forronate Ne\'
S'PUt
Carvajal
into a thoufand thoughts concerning the
fiat~
of
.Pip1rro>s
affairs)
~ontrivi~g
how it might be poflible for him to per–
p~tuat:
his
po~er
and !ule ;. not meamng.under
t~e
Emperonr, but
by
virtue of
hlS ov;n
abfol?te
and mdepeodent authomy, having
·uh affifrence of his own
~rother ~nd
his own Arms,. won and &ained that Empire.
Diego
Fernandez
in the
f<?urry moth
Chapter of his Book recites the whole Letter wherein he advifes
him to
ra~e.
on himfelf
the
Titl~
of
~ing:
And when afte;wards he and
Pif~rro
~et
at
Rimac
1
·he then made
this
Difcourfe to him which we think
fit
to
anti-
ap
and repeat out
of its
due place.
'
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Sir~