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OOK
V.
R0)1al
Commentaries.
whohave
\~:rore
the Lives of
fo
many men)
to relate fome few pafiages of
my
o.wnmisforru
n
.
But
to
rern1
n
to
what the
af
orefaid Authours have written concerning my Fa–
ther :
I
muft confefs
that
there is no reafon for me to contraditt the tefi:i ony of
, · three fuch imp .rtant Wi
cneffes, nr is
it
reafonable for
e to expeet,
that
any
'
one
fhould
yield
n ire
cre9en.ceto
my
who am a party in the
rnf~
For
my
o , n art
I
am
fatisfied
wnhmmy
fe1 ,
that
ha
e
declared nothmg
uc
the
truth,
and
let other men
judge
as
they pleafe :
I am fufficiently conten d,
t-hat
the characrer which
they
have given of my F3ther {bould
pa~
for
true:
and I do
much
avail
and value
my
fdf
on
the
honour
of
ein
the
on
of
fo
courageous,
refolute
and
valiant
a
Souldier,
as
he; who
in
the
heat
of
a Bartel
fo
cruel
and
bloudy ac;
is btfore
repeated , durft
adventure (as Hifi rians write) to alight
from his H
rfe,
and
f
pare him for his friend; and
amid
ft
of much danger could
• bear that p efence of mind
t
as
to
help
to
fet him on H
rfe-back.
And
if
this
aetion gave a turn co the fortune of the day
'I
and obtained the Vietory fo
Pifar-
1·0
,
certainly there have been none, or at leafi few of thefe examples in the
World..
The(e
Tr
phies
of Honour archieved
by
my Father, I gladly aifume unto my
fel
f: for the efir of honour is
fo
natural
to
all men, that
even
rhofe who have
no
verr.uer
1\'0lt
inef~
to
boafi of, yet rather than \vant
fome
little
gliccerings
of
im
aginary honour,
will
glory in thJt which is their fhame: but forne may objecl,
a d
fay,
that
my Either acted againfi his
Majefiy's
fervice :
To
"'hiL
I make
anf\·er,
rhat laying that
matter afide; the Atlionin
it
felf was brave and merits a
due
l
onour and
ren \ ·n. But ro
return to
chofe
who fled from the
Batcel,
a- ·
mong!l wi1ich the Biihop of
Co~co
was one · and he,
having
dep
reed
f.
om
Cen–
teno
without any
regard
to either fide , or concerning
himfelf
farther '' ith them ,
returned
to his
Cathedral Church, but he was in coo
much
hafie
co
vifit ir , or
to
n
a
kQ
any ftay
there.
Io
company
with
him were
Alrm(o
tle
Hino1ofa, [ohn
?u!io
de
Ho1eda,
with about fourty other principal Cirizens and ouldi rs, whom I
fa
w
in
that
City,
but
yet
cannot remember their Names, except thofe three former–
ly
mentioned. The Bifhop ( as
I
have intimated in another place , ) 1 dged
in
my
Father's
houfe
with
about fourteen or
fifteen
more, and next morning early
they met in
the
ldfer quare of the
ity near to the Convent of our Lady of
che
Mere.eds;
and
the
e they
travelled ,
and cook the direet way to
Lo.r
Roes;
be–
caufe they
under
ood
that
'Tohn de la Torre
purfued
hard after them; of whofe fuc.:
cefs we !ball [peak in the following Chapter.
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.
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CH AP.
xx
v.
The Proceedings of
John de la
Torre
in
Cozco;
· and
what was
atied
by
other evil Miniflers
in
other
parts.
C
Aptain
{ohn de la Torre
purfuing
thofe who were fled from the Bartel came to
the
City
of
Couo
;
where
he executed his
J
ufiice on
[ohn
Vafque~
de Tapia,
who
had been M
1yor of
the
City
for the King: he likewife hanged his Collegue
_ or
Coaffefiour
named
Licenciado Martel.
Thefe men loft their
lives
for wane
of
d~e
regard
to
themfelves : for they refiing confident of
Centeno'
fuccef againft
P1:f.arro,
acted with great zeal in the King's fervice againft fuch as were of the diC.
attected Parcy : and
.yet they took thefe matters into fo
little
confideration ,
that
thoug~
they
~aw
the Bifhop
fly
away, yet rhey refolved to fiay
by
it,
and
not
quit
the _City,
ur~nll
{ohn de la Torre
came, who made them pay for their errour and in–
cog1tancy
~ith
the
loG
of their lives: but as to the common Souldiers he i!Iued a
P roclamation of Pardon to all thofe who would
lift
themfelve in his Company.
Then he
.gather~d
all
the
.Arm he
could, and
eretted triumphal Arches, and prepa–
red all
thmgs
with
magmfi~ence
and ofl:e:°tation for the
reception
of
P ifarro,
who,
as
he
preten~ed,.
was commg
to
that
City,
to
enjoy the
{ruits
and
happy
confe–
quences of his Vietory : And here he leavied money for payment of the Army,
and
'
.