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V.
Royal
Commentaries.
CH AP.
XII.
•
Hoflages are
nzutually
font fronz one fide
to
the
other
,
in
which nzuch caution and
fuhtilty
was
pratiifed
hy
bJJth
Parties. Many principal nzen of
t2.f!:ality
abandon
and
leave
Gon<5alo
Pi~arro.
·
~
W O days
after
this Oath was
adminillred , the
four Ships
under
the com..:
-1.
mand of
Lorenfo
de Aldana
appeared in the Port of
L os
R eyes,
upon
which the
City was
in
a great Confl:ernation; and
Pifarro
ordered che Souldiers to put
themfelves into Arms , and appear
in
the Market-place,
being
then about the
number of
fix hundred
men;
but afterwards caufed chem
all to
draw
up in the
field; where, being in
publick
view,
it
would
be
more
difficult
for
any
perfon
to
revolt or
forfake his Colours : the Camp was pitched about a League from
the
City , and
about
two
from
the Port ; and ,
to
prevent all
efcapes ,
he kept
con–
fiant Guards and Petrolls
of
Horfe between the Camp and the Sea, to intercept
chofe who inclined towards the Enemy: but to
quiet
the
minds of the people,
and
to
know and underfiand the
pretenfions
of
Loren90
de
Ald~na,
an
Inhabitant
of
Los R eyes,
named
{ohn
Fernande~,
was fent to remain wich
A!dan1t,
in nature
of
a
HoO:age,
with
intent
chat
he fhould
fend another
in
the like quality to make
known the defign of
his coming
into
that
Pore ,
and
what his pr€tenfions
were.
Accordingly Captain
Penna
was fent from the Ships, and carried co
Gonfalo
Piyar-
r o
a Copy of the
Prefident's
commiffion
from
his Majell:y,
and
the
general
Pardon _
of
all pall:
Crimes ,
with a Revocacion
of the late Ordinances,
which
had
cau–
fed all
the
difiurbances : And in
regard his Majell:y
was
not
pleafed
to
commie
the Government into
the
hands of
Pifarro, Penna
had
Orders to perfuade
him by
word
of month to
obey
his King, and
fubmic co
his Commands.
And
here
Pa–
l cntinfJ
relates
what we formerly touched, about fending Commiffions; but he is
mifbken
in
his
Difcour[e,
for
matters were now much altered, and it was coo
fate
to
treat of Commiffions
or
Delegation
of
Powers as they
were
called ; for
there
was
noching
now but
noife
and
coofufion ,
and endeavours
to
"efcape ,
as
will
appear by
the
fequel of
this
Hifiory.
Pifarro
aofwered
fomethiog
warmly
to
the
Meffige
which
Penna
had brought him :
and
bid him tell
Lorenfo
de A ldana
and
Pedro de
Hinojofa
and
the refi
who
had
been fworn
friends
to
him,
that they
had
fali1y
betraye him, and been the occafion
to
have him
branded
with the
in–
famous name
of a Traytour, whereas he had never deferved to be
fo
efieemed;
having
fent
Ambaffadours
to his Majefiy to render him an account of all che u
4
anf–
ac.tions
of
chafe parts ;
chat
his
intentions were· never to
offend
the King,
but
to
quiet and compofe the
difl:urbaoc;es of
the Countrey , and order every
thing
for
his Majefiy's better ferv.ice . He added many other things
like
a troubled and an
angry man
complaining
of the falfenefs of friends
and
ingratitude
of
men
whom
he had raifed and preferred
to
offices and
places
of T
n~fi
,
in
requital
of which
they
had
uojufily and
bafely
fold
him;
He
ordered that Captain
Penna
fhould be
lodged
in
the
TeRt
of
Ant onio de R ibera,
without liberry to converfe
with
any per–
fon , that
fo
t~e
difpatches and orders he brought might
not
be divulged amongft
the people; fome Authours fay, that the fame night
Pifarro
tryed if he could
cor–
rupt him with money to !how him a way how
Aldana
s Ship might be betrayed
to
hi~,
and
fo r
that
fervice, he promifed
a
reward of a hundred thoufand
pieces
of Eight , believing, that if he could gain that Ship, the others would of courfe
f~ll
imo
his
hands :
but
Penna
made anfwer, that he\\ as not the perfon they took
h1~n
fo!;
for
that
~11 ~he
advqntage
and
interell:
in
the
world
could never
prevail
with him
to be guilty of a Treachery
fo
mean
and
rnanifeft
as that·
and therefore
it was an affront
to
propofe it
to
him : the day following
Pifrzrro
~rdered
him to
be returned fafe to the Ships, which was performed according to rhe faith and
pledges which were given: but on the other fide, the Propofals made to
{ohn
Fer–
nande~
had
be~ter
e.ffeet ;
for
Lorenfo de A ldana
having underfl:ood
from.Captain
Penna,
that
Pif11.rro
concealed and
fmothered the Letters
and Papers
which were
fent
I
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