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Commentaries.
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V.
him.
i.f
it pef!ible,
faid l;e,
that you fhould fanfie and imagine me to be
fa
~.>1gr
tefi
fl
to forgHt the kjnd and charitable entertain
ment1
received from you, fome
year
1
paft
·
/1
h~
very
City? or to believe, that
in
retHrn
thn-e.ofI
jhoHld not embrace
aO
,occlljions
tm
t~
k._nown
nry
gratit11de
?
u
it
poffeblc Jo.,. me
to
be
fo
fhort
of
memory
M
not to rcmembo
~
e
kjnd(y y ou took._ me and my Famify to ) ·our own home, (when there
WM
no place
t
er .
0711
)
.
.
.
o receive
m
an_d entertained
UJ
there for days
an~
months, until/ foch time
M
Marquu
Pi~arro,
of glonom mem_ory,
ha~
made
ot~r
prqVJ"jions for me.
An~
having, ever confarved
the
thoughts hereof
m
my
mind,
1
car-oed
gt-eat refpell to
every
thmg
wherein
J'OU
were
cone
_
ned;
for
though
I
had jitjficient inf(}rmation, that
Diego Centeno
-WM
concealed
wit~
your
po~lfion,
and tkoHgh
I
k...~ew
the very
Cav~
it
[elf
whe*l'e he
WM
hid, and nourijhed;
yqur lnd1an1, yet
I
wm~ed
at
tt,
and took.. no notice thereof, that
I
might not give you trouh!e
nor bring yoltunder
a
prejudice or ill notion with
my
Lord the Gove-mour.
I
might
then
ea:
ft/y
(if
I
had pleafed)
fent
fame
FileJ
of
MufqueticrJ and hll7le brought
Diego Centeno
to
me;
/mt
for .)'O!"r
fak! .
z
forbore to
perfe~ute
him, notwithftanding tke
m~rtal
enmity
he–
tween
iu.
Nor . indeed dsd
I
much value hsm
;
far
he who coHld
fa/mm
to tak!
hu
ref
11
ge
in a Cave
WM
not much to be feared; not doubting but whenfoever he {ho11/d adventHrt
again abroad, and dare to
ta~
11p Arms againft
11!J
Lord the Guoernour,
I
/hould drive
him
into another
Cave,
M
1
have done
jince
hu flight
from
Huarina,
where
by
the
blejfing
of
God, and ajfijlence of Friend!,
I
gained a jignal Pillory.
And nuw, jince for
your
f
ak!
1
tool not vengetlnce
01t
an enemy
wh~m
I had within my power, how
m11ch
more
jhould
J
refpeEl your perf<m, and thofe whomyou own
far
JOur frient:U and acquaintance? and to af–
fure yolt
of
thefe my real intentions, I give
you
free leave to return unto your home, and
there repofe and reft with
M
muth freedom ana fecurity
M
you can de.fire.
And a/fa
you
m11y
affi1re all the Inhabitttnts
of
rhu City, and all fuch
M
were
tak.fn1Wd b-t'ought back in
JOHY company, that for ;your fak...e they are pardoned and exempted from that punifhment which
their offences have de(erved.
And herewith he
acquitted
and
difmHfed
Mig11el CtJr..
nejo,
and
freed the
City
of the
fears and
apprehenfions they were
in for having
with zeal and affeetion fhewed
chemfelves a&ive
in
his
Majefiy's Service,
arrd for
the
affifiance they had given to
Diega Centeno.
This Story I learned, not
onely by
common reporc,
but
from
the particular
relation of
Gonfalo
Silveftre,
who was a
profeffed enemy ro
Francifco
de
Carvajal,
as
he
was a
fall:
and faitbfull
friend
to
Diego Centeno,
having
adhered to
him and accompanied him
in
all his adverfi·
ties aad
misfortunes
rill
the day of
his death, as
will
appear hereafcer. And on
this occafion I
produce
this authentick 'Nitnefs to confirm the
truth
of
what
I
have fpoke ;
for
I
pretend
to
flatter no
man, bat
really
and
ttuiy
co
Jay
down
matters of
falt
according as
they
have paffed.
Carvajal,
having gathered
what Arms
and
Horfes
he
could
find
in
Areq11epA,
re·
turned
co
Pifarro,
\'\'ho was
fiill on his march
co
Co:
t.co:for by
reafon
of che many
fick
and
wounded in the
Camp,
he
was forced to
continue
longer at
HHarina
than
was intended. And here it is very
obfervable, that
thofe of
Pifarro's
Party
who
were
rich took care
and
compaffion of
the
wounded men belonging
co
Centeno,
and
dividing
them amongfl:
chemfelves carried
them to their own Tents, where they
provided for their maintenance and cure.
It
was my Father's lot to
have
twelve
affigned to him, of which
fix
dyed on the
march, and fix
happened co
live and
recover.
I knew two
of chem,
one was called
Diego
de
Papia,
a Gentleman
of
good Quality, and a perfon of vertue, who made many
grarefulJ
acknowledg–
ments for the care which was taken of him. When I came for
Spain
I lefc him
in
the Houfe
of
Diego de Silvia,
who
was Godfather to me at my Confirmation.
The
other
was called
Francifco
de
Penna,
whofe
name agreed well with his nature,
which
fignifies a
Rock,
and
indeed
fo
hardy was he,
that though
he
had received
three great !lafhes on
che
Crown of
hi,?
Head, from the firfr ro the fall
of
which
chere wag about three fingers dillance; and
thoqgh
his Skull was
fo
broke chat the
Chirurgeon was forced to take out fame Bones ; and having no better Inllruments
to
rrepao
his
Head, he made ufe of
a
Smith's Pincers in chis operation,
yet
had
he rhe fortune and llrengrh
to
recover.
And
this farther !hewed the foundnefs and
hardinefs of his £omplexion, that,
not\Vithfianding
all thefe wounds, and
th~
unfit·
nefs of th{! Infiruments that he
recovered
without Fever, or
any
other
acc1de~t;
and
yet
kept no rule
or
regimen in his
Diet,
but
ace
w
hacfoever
was
fee
before
~tm.
The \ hich indeed was very llrange, and never heard or feeo before ; and fo
might
well
be
called
Franci{co Penna
rather than
de Penna,
which is
Franc~
Rock_,
and
noc
FranciJ of the
Roe~
And having faid thus much,
it
will
be
now
time
for us ro re·
cum ro the Prefidenr.
CHAP.