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was at
Panama
and or°the Condition of the Captains and Sou]diers
which
were
embarked rhe:eupoo, and how that
Pedro de Hinojofa
wa~
Admiral thereof: for. all
which Advices and Promifes the Prefidenc returned him
thanks, and
prom1fed
him in the name of his Majefiy a fuitable reward, defuiog his fecrecy in the whole
matter: And thus Peace and Friendfhip being agreed between them, they pri–
vately. difcourfed every night
roget~er,
an
Hernan Mexia
ga':e him an account
9f
'
all matters which they wrote
to
him from
Panama.
Thus did the Prefident gam
every day
~pon
the good "ills and affeetions of the People and Souldiery,
fo
that
many of them went co dine and
c~nverfe
with him ; and in. all
h~s
difcourfes, he
told chem
plainly
That
he came thither to no other end and mtenuon, than onely
to reduce chem to their obedience and loyalty due to his Maj fiy by terms of peace
and friend lhip,
and
with promifes of reward : That the King had given him full
power and auchofir·y to promife them a general Pardon for all crimes and faults
which were already pafi ; and that
if
People would not be contented herewith
on fair term , he for his part was ready, wuhout farther force, to rerurn fpeedily into
Spain.
This
\)\ras
his common difcourfe and decl ration at all times, when he was
in publick, \ ith intention that
the
report here
f
might be fpread in all parts
of
the Empire : fome
f(
w
days after the arrival of the Prefident at
N omhre de Dios
7
Meichior
de
Verdugo,
of whom we have formerly made mention appeared before the
City of
Panama,
~
ith intemion to enter with his
t\
o Ships into rhe P rt: But
the
Citizens were
in great combuftion hereupon, by reafon that they feared and
hated the
perf01
of
Verdugo,
and believed that he was commanded thither
by
rhe
order of the Prefidenr :
but
to clear himfelf of this fufpicion,
he
wrote a Letter
himfelf to
Verdugo,
and fent
it
by the hand
of
an intimate friend of his,
r~·
as
a
Church-man;
ordering
Verd11go,
upon no terms wha
f<
ever
co come
to
Nom6re
de
Dio1
_,
but to go
to
any ocher place, which fhould be mor convenient
d that
he fhould refi:ore the Ships and Goods
which
he had taken r the true Proprietors.
This was the Contents of hat was wrote in
t
e
L tter · but then privately
and
by word
of
tnoath ; he gave him orders to reta
"O
to
Nicara ua,
an
chere
to expett fuch farther directions which fhould
be
fent him:>
the which wo Id rend
greatly to his Majefiy's Service. But
Melchio-t"
Verdugo,
infiead of returning to
Ni-
1
caragua,
failed into
Spain,
much doubting his fecuricy in that Count1
ey,
for that
he
nad
rendred
hirnfelf fo odiou
co the People, chat he thought
himfelf
in no
place
fecure or fafe. And being in
Spain,
hi Imperial Majelly .honoured him wirh
the habit of
a11tiago.
I
faw
him once in the Anti-chamber of the
moll:
Catbo..
lick
King
Philip
the Second, in the
ye1r
156
3.
But
foo11
after Informations came
againfl:
him of all
t
e
Pyracies
he had commicted in
Peru,
and
the
other Vio–
lences
and
Mifchiefs he
had
done in
Nica~agua
and
Nombre
de
Dios;
which
were
fuch.great .and
c~ying f1~s,
that he was in danger of_ l5eing deprived of the honour
of his habit , wuh
..
h1ch
he became
fo
fad and deJeeted , that his
countenanc~
changed and fhe ed the inward farrow of his mind: but afterwards, at the In–
tercefiion
of Friends he obtained his Majefiy's Pardon, and returned into
Pera.
C H A P.
III.
The Prefident fends
Hernan
Mexia
to
Panama
to quiet the
D!fturbances which
were
nzade
hy
Pedro Hinojofa ,
and
difpatches an
A111haf!adour
to
Gon~alo Pi~arro
;
who ha–
ving Intelligence
of the coming
'of
the Prefident
,
fends
Melfengers
to
the
Emperour.
T
HE Prefident made preparations to
ten.lmagain
to
PanamA
where
he
ho–
ped
~ mea~s
of
his good.
conduct
. to reduce
Pedro
Je
Hi~ofa,
with che
other Captams
w~xch
were
chet~ quarr~red,
co due allegiance unto their Empe–
rour : for acc0rd10g to the
relaa.onwhich
Hern~nd<J
Mex iJJ de
GHWJan
had
givea
him