864 / 1060
Royal
Com1nentaries.
·
· BooK
V.
committed again!l:.
~d,
the King and his neighbours. The fame
day
~r ·
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,...
.
I
d h
d
d
d
r; .mcifrn
ne
':a~ayi
was execute :
e \
~
rav\
nan
quart~re
; and
his
quarcersdifi
0
e
m
~1vers
pla.ces about
t~e
C!tY of
Co~o
:
~ut ~1s
Head
with that of
Pif•lrro's
,,
0
earned to
Lima :
and
Pt
f4n'O
s
houfe likew1[e
in
chat
City
emoulhe
J
the ground {l:rewed with
Salt ,
with
a
Motto or lnfcription fee thereupon
'T~
Carva;al,
from the
time
that he was caken,
to
the
time chat he was executed
n
1
e
s
ed as little fear and apprehenGon, and was as little cone med at the
appr~ach
\\
[
death,
as
he bad been at any time of his greate!t profpericy:
for
when the
fe~
rence
was
declared
t~
hitp '· he received
ic
without any alteration or change
in
h~
countenance; and fa1d,
Tis
no matter,
I
can bur dye. That day in the morning
Carvajal
asked how many .had been executed;
an~
when it was cold him, thac
none had been
as
yet; he fa1d, your Lord Prefident
lS
a
very rnercifull Prince
for
if
the fortune of the day had been ours, I iliould at one firring have difpofed of
the quarters of nine hundred men. He was hardly perfuaded
to
come to confef–
fion, for he told them, that he had confefied lately ; and when they talked co him
of refiicution, he laughed aloud ; faying, that he had nothing to fay as to
that
point; and fwore that he owed nothing to any perfon, unlelS half a Royal to
a
Tripe-vrnrnan who
lives
at the Gate of
ArenaL
in
Sevile,
which debt he made
at
the time when he remained there in expeetation of a paifage into the
Jndies.
be–
ing
on the hurdle to be drawn and cr'ouded
into
a Hamper inllead of a
larg~
Flaf.
ket; he faid, Children and Old men are put
into
Cradles
:
and being come
co
the place of execution, the people crouded
fo
to
fee him, that the Hang-man
had
not room to doe his duty ; and thereupon he called
to
them , and faid,
Gentle–
men, pray give the Officer place
to
doe Jufiice.
In
fine, he died more
like a
brave Roman than a good Chrifiian. Thus
far
Palentino,
whofe relation
feems ro
be grounded on the report of fame perfons
who
hated
Carva1al
for the evil
he had
done chem, and not being
able
to
wreak their anger on his perfon, would
fatisfic
their
revenge upon his fame and reputation.
•
CH AP.
XL.
What
Francifco de Carvaj
lfaid
and
did
on
the
day
of
his
death, and what account
Authours
give of his condition
and sk}lfulnefs in War.
B
UT
now
to
return ro what this Aurhour (aid.
It
is not to be believed,
that
a
Biiliop fo religious
as
he of
Couo
\~a
,
{hould either in publick or
in
fecret
!hike an old man of eighty four years of age ; nor
is
it P,robable chat
Diego Cente–
no
who was a difcreet and judicious perfon fhould offer his fervice
with
o
much
complement
as is
reported, to
a
man whom he knew would be execmed
in a
few
hours. Nor can \:\ e think that
Franc
if
co de Caruapd,
of\ horn a
l
Writers give
che
charaCl:er of a fober, difcreet perfon ;- and in ce£Hmony the eof publi1b many of
hi
ife and fentenrious fayings
1
fhould utter fuch vile and unfeemly expreffions
as
are before related: Nor yet are chefe ltories
co
be
fathered on the Aurhour, "'ho
no doubt heard and received them
in
the City, where they \.Vere
framed and
en*
ted, and may properly
pa~
for ham , whi h are ly
formed and coloured
co
p3fs
for truths.
F
r
Francifco de Carvajal
did not dHiemble his know] dge
f
Cenu110,
but difcourfed with him, as \s mentioned; and
I
am
~ell
affured thereof
fr
mche
cefi:irnony of thofe who that ery day were
refent
at
the meeting of
chefe
perfons.
And though
Gomara,
in Cha
.187.
confirms almoll: the ame, yet it
i
\dch
fi
little
difference, that
'ti
probable
P11/enti110
rook it from hi
rrati
e.
For
jc
\.\as
chat a Souldier of
inci
al rank arnongfi thofe
f
Peru,
coming into
f"'i",.
foon
afcer
Gcmara's
Hillary was ublHhed , accidenrally met with
this
uch ur m.rhe
treet , and ha ing Come difcour e \\
ich
him upon fevera] p !fag
, he a k
d
him,
h \' he darfi adventure to prim
f<
manifi
fi
a lye,\ hen n u ht ing pafTed ·
and
r
eunco