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BooK
V.
Royal
Commentaries.
{he c
fidently call herfelf upon
he~
knees at his feet , and with .many
~ears
asked
the
lie
of
her
Kinfi.nan
z
Pifarro,
like
a
Gentleman, prefently lifted her from t_he
gr0u~d
;
and
though at firft he
feemed
averfe and hardly perfuaded to grant
hu~
mercy;
yet
t
length
fuffering
himfelf to be overcome with the
~~ayer~
and
Tea~s
of the Lady, a d -.\ ith the
In
treaties of thofe who fiood by and 1omed
1~
the
Pet~tio , he granted her requefi ; . and as a
fig~al
of th.e Pardon (
accor~mg
as
his
cuftom
was in
rhe like cafes )
h1
took
ff
hts
C~p
with
the Medal
~n 1~,
and de–
live
ed
it to her
to
be
{hown
to
Carvajal;
the which was brdught to
h~m
JUfi
at
the
moment of time when
Hernando
Bravo
was
at the fo?t of the Tree wtth the
~alter
about his N ck and ready
to
be trufled up: the wluch fignal from
Gonptlo Pi9arro
ferved for a fufficient Warrant
to
Francifco
de
Carvajal,
who was alfo mollifiea by
the lntreaties of thofe then prefent, who efieemed rhemfelves concerne9 to pro–
mote and favour the Lady,s Petition. And thus
Hernan
Bravo
de
Laguna
efcaped
death, whom
I
knew
a
long time, and left
him living
in
Co~o,
poffefs'd of a fmall
plantation.
.
.
.LlugH/fine
de
Car
ate
in the
feventh
Book
o~
his Hifi?rY Chapter the
fixree~th
ha-
ving
re iared this Pafiage, farther adds
a
particular whICh happened upon thIS
Par–
don very remarkable, which
V\
as
this~
A
cer~ain
Captain called
Alon{o de Carceres>
being then prefent when
Gonfalo
Pifarro
pardoned
Hernan Bravo,
killed
him upon
the Cheek
and
cryed out
wuh a
loud voice , Oh Prince of the World ,
curfed '
be he who,for fear of death
iball
deny thee: notwithftanding which, before three
hours were ended, both he and
Hernan Bravo,
and feveral others revolted, which
was the more ll:range, in regard that an boneft and a confidering perfon might
be–
lie ~
e char a man who had the halter ab uc
his
Neck could not in
fo
iliort a time
have recovered from the agonies
and
ecfiafies of death,
&c.
/,
CH AP. XIII.
~Iartin
·
d Robles
contrives a Plot for hi-5 Efcape.
"l:T
THEN
fo many noble and principal Perfons had deierted
Gonfalo Pifarro
V V
who had been the chief InClruments to incite him to appear
in
defence of
their Lives and Efiares, a great murmuring and trouble was raifed in the Camp:
for as
Carate
relates, many perfons were amongfr them, who
had
from the begin–
ning followed
Piptrro
,
and
given him
fuch affurance of their faith and fidelit}T,
that no man coulo reafonably imagin that they could abandon or betray him : at
which
Piy_arro
was fo enraged and put into that
ill
humour, that no man durll: to
appear in his prefence ; and in his paffion gave Orders
to
the Out-guards to kill any
man ·whom they found without the PrecinCl:s of the Camp : foon after which
a
poor Soaldier happened
to
fall
into their hands, upon no other evidence,
or pre–
fumption rather, than ecaufe he carried two Shirts with
him.
But nothing could
be more infamou
and dHhonourable than what happened the night following ,
when
Martin
de Robles,
pretending
to
be lick, that he might have leave to return
to.the City, fent fecret intelligence to
Diego
Maldonado,
who was a rich man and
a
Cirizen, and the High-confiable of
Couo,
that
Gonfalo
fi~arro,
by advice
~f
his
Captains intended to
kill
him; and therefore out ofthe fenfe of friendiliip
which
was between them, he could not give him better Counfel than exhort him to takd
care of his own fafety.
Diego Maldonado
gave entire credence thereunto, becaufe
he rememhred .that he was once under an
ill
opinion with
Pi9arro,
when
he
fer–
ved the Vice-king againft him, as hath been formerly mentioned.
After
which
they
put him
to
die
torture, upon certain Libells which were fcattered in
Picarro,s
. Tent,
at
the
time
when the Battel
at
~itu
was ready to begin; of
qll
which
though he
was afterwards found innocent , yet the actions of his friend
Antonio
Altamiran~
ferv.ed~fterwards
to
render him the more fufpetl:ed.
/
T~efe ~magmauons
and the
apprehenfio~s
of a tormenting death, which was
prachfed
m
tnofe days, .fo operated on the
m~nd
of
Diego
Maldonado,
that
believing
every
wor~
that
Martin de. R_obles
had told him, he, without making a difcovery
to
any
of his Servants, or
glvmg
order to faddle his Horfes, of which he had
ma-
H h h h h
ny good