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Royal
Commentarie1.
BooK
V.
C H A P. V.
Of
the Confultations and Opirzions concerning the
Revocation
.
of the New L_aws:
and
of the General
Pardon
of
au
jaults and crimes pafl. What private
lnflrutiions had
been given
to
Paniagua;
and
Gon\
lo
Pi~arro's
An-
.
f
wer thereunto.
.
HE E
Letters having at the firll:
confultation been
read three
or four
times
in prefence of
G onfalo PifaYro,
and of
Licenciado Cepeda
and
Francifco de
Car–
'V..?.Jal
;
Pi farro
demand
d
their o inion thereof:
Cepeda
defired
Carva;al
becaufe
~e
\\a toe oldefi man of the company , that he
v.
ould
firfi
fpeak ro (be matter
.
n quefii n,
and though there were fome little
eplies
ben~
een chem,
each
defi–
nng the other to begin firfi : yet at length
ca.,·va1aL
gave hi opinion as follo
·erh:
hefe are,
ir, in reality great offers; Let us not negleet to ac
e
t thefe fair
Con–
dition .
What
fair Conditions, anfwered
Cepeda.
What good or benefit
can
they
b
i g to us?
Why,
faid
Carvajal,
they are,
Sir,
both good and cheap; for
they
rof)ofe a revoca ion of the
1
re Ordinances
l\·hich
gave u
fo
much
caufe
of
difconte
t ,
toge ther \
ith
a
eneral Pardon for all that is paft.
A
d that
for
other matters
a
general Aflembly fhall be held confifting of Members
of rhe
feveral Cirie ,
by
whofe Votes and Direltions, Ru le
tball
be given to order
all
matters tending to the fervice of God,
to
the "'- ellfare of the
ountrey and bene–
fit of the Inhabitants and Planters thereof; v\
hich
is
as
much as "' e e\i r defae
or can poffi ly expeet
:
for by annulling or revoking th
f
e ne
0
dm...nces, v
fc
cure ur
/ ndians
;
our propertie in vv hich was rhe
'He ca fe
T.
hie
m0ved
us
to take up Arms, and ro adv
tore our lives in the
fen
re
th
reof..
Th Gene
ral Pardon exempt
u
from all future Reckoning
for
· at
1
paft
a
Wll
~e
conferve the Government in our
O \\'Il
hands
~
fince that aH the La
\1i
an Rules
which
are to be made, are to pr ceed and to be enaeted fro
and by
the
re
pec–
tive
Corporations of Cities of which
we
are principal member . Nherefore
up·
on
the whole matter my opinion
i,
that\'\ e tbould
ace
t
of
hefe
gracious
Of–
fers, and in anfa er thereunto return Ambaffadours
to
the
re
d
nt,
lignifymg
· our acceptance of the terms pr pofed: and
to
ngradate ur feh e with him_,
let him be invited to
this
place, and carried on men iliould
r
imo
rhe
tty ·
er
his
way hither be _paved wich Plate of 1lver and
I
g
ts
of
1 , and treat d
in the mofi magnificent manner imaginable,
for ha
ing
b
en the
Meffe
g
r
of
fo general a good ro us:
lee us find
fo
e farther way to obli
him
to
deal\\
ith
us
a
Friends , and treat in confidence
ith u :
I d
not doubt but fince
he
bath begun thus generou!ly
to
open hirnfelf hue that he hath yet a larger
Com–
miffion, and
a
pow
r
to confer on you the Gover ment
of rhi
Empire: bur let
the matter
go
how
it
will,
I
am
of opinion, that he fhould be brought to this
place ; and if afterwards his proceedings do not pleafe us, it
~ill
remain frill in
our hand to difpofe of him as we
{hall
think
fi r.
-.
Cepeda
\\as abfolutely ofanother opinion, and oppofed all that
Carvajal
had de–
da d; faying, that thefe fair promifes were words \ ithout
~ecurity
· whi h
power
foll
men could eafily avoid , as they
faw
occafion. That 1f the .
Preli
nc
were once admitted in , he would
f<
draw the heart of all pe ple to him , as ro
order and difpofe every thing according to his own will and pleafure : cha
c rhe
perfon who was fent
with
thefe Leners, was not one of that plain and ftm l
f<
rt
as was pretended ; but
a man
of great fubtlety and under anding, and
full_
f
In–
trigues and Policies
to
delude and affeet the minds of the People
:
and
10
fum
his conclufion was, that they ought not to receive the
refident amongil: them.;
for
that his admittance would prove the ruine and deftruetion of them ·ill.
Ju
was
in
fhort the opinion of th
fe
two
ouncellour , th ugh the
reafo1
1:r
0
an~
Con
were more large; and though
Pifttrro
did not declare him
tlf
at rhar rni:e.
1-
ther one
way
or other,
yet
in his own thoughts he
inclined
mm
to
the
m10n
of
Ce-