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BooK
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Royal
Commentaries.
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heard him fay; for when I was a Boy, or a young Lad, he would
~lways
have me
with him, and upon a cercain time
ca:vajal
came
to
fpeak
to
him, and r_hough
there was none in the Room prefent with them befides
my
felf, yet
Carva;al
not
being willing that
I
!hould hear any thing which
~as
between
t~em
whifpered
him in the ear; what
it'~
asJ ·could not hear, but
P1ptrro
anfwered
ma
few words7
which were, Look you Father.
have feen· him
fomeames
at Dinner, for he always ate
in
publick; his
Table was very long, and
held at
Jeaft an hundred people: at the upper end of
which he fate himfelf: and ".on each hand there was a void fpace left
which
might
contain two perfons ; at which diftance all Souldiers face down a they pleafed ;.
onely the Captains and
~itize~s di~
not ·
d~e
with him, unlefs.
it
were
iri
their
own Houfes.
I
dined with him twice at his own Table, by his command and
invitation; one of which wa on
CandlemM-day,
and then his Son
Don Fernando,
· and
Don Francifco
his
Nephew,
who
as on to his Brother the Ma quis, and
f
ate fianding
at
the void place of
his
Table, and he carved for us all, and gave
from his own Plate; all
hich
I
faw, being then about the age of n·ne
a s,
which
I
coippleated on the twelfth day o
April
follo 'ing, and do certifie the
truth thereof, having been anJeye-witoe£S of what I have before mentioned;
fo
that Hillorians
may
yield
more
credit
to
me herein than
to
thofe who fpeak out.
of prejudice, and with ranc ur and malice
to
his perfo .
In
like manner they ac·
rufe him, and
fay
that he
to0k
a ·ay
all
the Fifths and Revenue belonging to the
King; with the Tributes which were paidrby the
Indian.I,
and
t
e £{fares of thofe
who took up Arms againfi
him,
which together amounted to
ove
two third
parts of all the Income of
Peru
;
and yet ·
for
all this they
fay
that his Souldiers
were unpaid,
at
which they remained mu h unfatisfied; but
we
may eafily
refute
this errour and this rnill:ake of
W
ricers, when it is confidered, chat for certain
he
left no hidden Treafu
es
at the time of
his
death. They alfo accufo
him
ofAdul–
tery and Incontinence, with many aggravating circumfiances, which
are
mofi nof"
toriou
in
che lives of Governours and men in eminent places.
But to return
to
our Hifiory: We i:nuft know, chat during the time
that
Gon-
2alo Pi2arro
refided at
Lo.I Reye.I
;
it happened that
Vela
Nunne~,
Brother to the late
Vice-Ki g, came co an unfortunate end-by means of Captain
[ohn de la
Torre,
who
fame
years before had married an
Indian
Woman, \ ' o vas
Da
ghter to the
C11-
raca
of the Province of
Puerto
Vie;o:
The
Indian.I,
pleafing the
fe lves with he
honourable alliance of
a
Spaniard,
whom they eil:e
m·
g a d preferring befc re
.
their Riche , difcovered unto him a Treafure of an
u dre and fifty tooufand
Ducats
in
Gold and Emeralds, which \\ere hidd n \ ithi
the
Tombs of their
Ancefiours.
[ohn
de
la
Torre,
having thus made his fortune, h d
a
mind
to
leave
Gon–
falo
Pifarro,
and re
urn
i o
.Spain,
and there
to
enjoy his Riche : but
then
confi–
aering
ith himfelf th t his Rebellion and Altions againfi the King were
too
well kno-vn
(for
he
was
one of thofe who core out the Hairs of the Vice-king's
Beard and put them into aMedall) he feared he iliould
be
cal ed
in
quefiion, and
not live fecurely and in peace at home : wherefore to take off thi blerni
1
from
hi
, and doe fome remarkable fervice, he perfuaded
Vela
Nunne~
to
ke
his
e cape
Hh
him, on one of the Ships then in Port, promifing to
affi!l:
him chere–
in, in cafe
he would engage his Relations
m
favour and proteCt him, for the good
fervices
~e
1ad done in delivering him out of the hands of that Tyrant.
Pela
Nunne~
hearkned
to
the propofals he ad made him,
buc
then fiories and rumours
fly·
g
about that the King had confirmed
Gonfalo Pifarro
in the Government,
Vela
Nunne:z:,
prefently changed his mind, and began to
ntrive in what manner he
~ight
·fix
himf:If in the good opinion of
Gonfalo
Pi
1arro.
rohn
de
la
Tovre
o
fer–
vmg this
alterat
'> ,
and fearing lefi he or
fome
o ners of his Confidenrs !hould
make a
.difcovety_
fo
Piiarro
of the Compaet or Plot that was
bet~
·een them,
thought
it
to
be
~1s
bell
c~urfe
to be. before-hand with them in the difcovery;
and
fo
went to
Pi
p irro
and
mformed
him of the deGgn of
J7ela
Nunne~
to QJake his
efcape,. fur which they cut off his Head, and hanged and quartered a other con–
cerned m the
fa
Plo : ho vfoever, it was the common talk that
this
piece of
cr.uelty was alted at the perfuafion onely of
Li~en2iado
Carvajal;
for
Pifarro
had
a
kmdnefs for
re!a
~ . u;.ine~, who~
he loved for hlS good nacure and fweet difpofici–
on, and
ever
mc.1.med to put him to death. And chis was the fate of this poor
Gentl_emao, by the falfe accufation of a treache ous fellow, who was a
illain of
the h1ghefr nature.
Francifco
de
Carv11-jal,
having fame days before received
in-
D d d d d
celligence