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Royal
Comme1!-tttries.
dillance
qff
be
fet
fpurs
co
his
orfe, which 'Yas a very comely Beaf! of a
d~rk
Chefnut colour, having h·s neck, breafr and hinder parts covered
w1ch a
thick
Bull's Hide dyed black, that it looked very handfomely, and was a new fort of
ornament and covering which I ever remember
to
have feen before, nor fince
tO
the day chat I
left
that Couotrey
:
but this new fort of hoofing was at that time
very
dangerous
to
the
Mafi:er>
being particularly
noted
and
known
thereby
5
for
he
no
fooner began
to
run towards the Enemy but he
w~
known
and purfued by
Pedro
Martin de
Don Benito,
mounted upon a large Horfe thm and lean, but m
good
breath and as I remember he was of a bayiili colour, and
fo
fwift that he ran three
foot
fdr
che other's one, and fo fetched upon him that he came up with
Ceped11
juff
as he entred upon the wee ground, which was near the Prefident's Camp, and
there he
gave
his Horfe fuch a {l:roke with bis Lance on the hinder parts that
he
bore him down into the mire,
and
gave another wound to
Cepeda
in the
right
Thigh, and had certainly killed him, had not four Cavaliers under the command
of
Alonfo
de
Mendofa,
placed
there on fuch occaGons,
co~e
in
to
his refcue.
Had
not the Horfe been
overcharged
with
the weight of his Bull's Leather, he had cer·
tainly ouc-run and efcaped the Lance of
Pedro
Martin
de
Don Benito,
who was moun–
ted on an old lean Jade; and having performed this piece of
bravery be
returned
again
to
the main Body of
his
Forces ; but
Licenciado Cepeda
being relieved
by
the
timely
fuccours which came to his affiltence, he
was
taken out of
the
mire
into
which he
was
fallen, and condueted to
kHs
the Prefidenc's Hand, who received
him
with great joy, and, as
Gomara
faith, killed him on the
Cheek;
looking up–
on him for fo confiderable a perfon, as that
by
his defertion
Pifarro
was overcomeo
Thus far
Gomara.
After
his example many ocher Souldiers both Horfe and Foot came flocking
in
from all
fides ;
amongfi:
them
was
Martin
de
Arz;jeto,
of whom we formerly made
mention in the Bartel of
Httarina,
and
promifed
to reJate feveral things of him, of ...
YJhich this
partia1lar
!hall ferve for one. He was well mounted on an excellent
Horfe, carrying
his
Lance
in
his Wrefi,
which
fort of Weapon began to be out
of u[e in thofe days;
this
Martin Arvieto
was accompanied by a Souldier called
Pedro
de
ArenM,
born at
Colmenar de
ArenM,
he was little of !l:ature, but a neat
· nirnQle fellow, and efieerned honefl, and a good Souldier
~
he was mounted on
a
prerry
dapper
Mare of a brown Bay, with white fireaks, but fmall and
fit
for the
Mafier, and was more
proper
to
ride about the fueets than for an engagement
in
Bartel ; and becaufe
Arvieto
had taken him under his prote6Hon, he held his Horfe
in
with a fiiffhatld, that he might not leave his
Companion;
which
Pedro
Mar–
tin
obferving, who had already run four or five Footmen thorough with his Lance;
immediately purfued after
them:
M artin
de
Arvieto
who led the way,
paffed
eafi..·
ly
over the rnoorHh ground, but
Pedro de
.Arma"s
Mare floundred
in
it,
and after.
two or
three plunges ilie threw her Rider
into
the mire and dirt, and the girts
of
the
Saddle broke.
Arvieto
turning about and feeing
his
Comrade in the
dirt,
in–
terpofed between him and
Martin
de
Don
Benito,
wliich when
B.enito
faw,
and
that
Arvieto
intended to fight him, he ftopped his Hm{e and ftood frill: whereupon
Martin
de
Arvieto
called
upon
him,
and faid,
Advance R.afcal,
and let us
try
which
of us hath
fucked
the better milk: but
Benito
accepted not the challenge, but re–
turned again ro his companions.
PedrtJ
Martin
made
many
of thefe
Callies~
and a
lafi a fuot took him on the
right
band,
with
which his Lance falling, he came
to
Pifarro
V\
ithout
it,
and told him, Sir, I am now difabled, and unfit farther for yonr
fervice, and thereupon he retired
into
the Rere of the Horfe. During
which
time
all the Souldiers that coul
as well
Hode
as Foot, fled over to the Royal Camp •
which
whe!11:'ra~ifcodeCarvajalfaw,
and
thac,by
reafon of
Pifttrro's
ob!liuacy,
wh~
perfifred
!hll
m
his
own humour, all was brought to
defiruction
and ruine he be–
gan to fing
with
a loud voice;
7bU1.,
Mother, doth the wind cat'r:J
ttw4)'
my
h~irs
two
h.J.
two>
and in
t~is
manner continued finging,
~d.
jelling
upon thofe who
rejeded
hrs
counfel~
uoull there was not
one
man rernauung. At length the nghr
Wing
ofMufquetiers, pretending unto great Faith and Loyalty, defired leave to be de..
ta~hed
from the reft of the Body
to skirmilb with
the Enemy, which being ad–
mitted, and
they
drawn out,
fo
foon as they
found
tbemfelves at fome difiance
off, they all fee to running, and came over to tbe Prefident · which when he and
his Officers.obferved,
they
refolved
to
decline fighting., in,
expeetatioo that
in
a
very
_iliort time all the Forces of
f>ifarro
would come over to them ; the which ac–
cordingly fucceeded; for a party of
thirty
H.orfe
being
drawn out to purfue the
·
Foot,