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thereun o
added
feveral
other
affrontive words , not
convenient to
be
reported
here. For "hich
Gomara
could
make
no other excufe, than
that
he did
not
frame
the Story l
i
elf, but
received
it
from
others
w
hofe
paffi0n
might caufe them co
fpeak mali ioufly : to which the Souldier replied, rhat it was
the
p~t
of a
difcr~et
Hil
or·an not
to
take
up
reports
upon common hearfay,
but
ro weigh every thmg
, i
h
mature deliberation,
fo
as neither
to
praife
men
who are worthy of com–
mendation nor
yet
defame
fuch
who deferve honour and high efieem; and here–
upon
Gom~ra
departed
from
che
Souldier
greatly
troubjed , that he iliould
fay
in his
Hilfory ,
that
CarfVajal
did not know to
enteno.
And as falfe ·
t
is , that
Carvajal
iliould
fay,
rhat he
would have
difperfed
the
quarters
of
nine hundred
men
through chofeiield
for
certainly he never
w~s
fo
vain and inconfiderate
to
uct~r
fuch matters.
And
now I fhall tell
what
I
heard from
thofe
who
were in
company \ ·ith h'm
'all
that day; and I much depood upon their Relation,
having
been educated with them
from
nine years
of
age
untill I
came co be
twenty,
when
I left
my
own C ountrey,
and
went
into
Spain:
The truth of which
Story
is this ; So
foon
as
it
was day,
Francifco de
Ca1·vajal
fent
ro call to
him
Pedro
de
Lopez
de
Cafalla,
ecretary
to
che Prefident
Gafea
'
and. after he had difcourfed
with
him
for
fome
ti.
e
in private, he drew
out
three very fine Emeralds .,
ith
a
hole
dril
ed
through them
to
hang
on
a firing;
two of them
were
0£
an
oval
form, and
the other round,
which
he tied
upon his left Arme: and caking the biggeft of chem
apart from the
reft,
he faid,
Mr.
Secretary, this belongs to the Heirs
of
Antonio
Al–
tamarino,
and is valued at five -t:houfand
piec~s t0f
ighr,
\Vhi
h make fix thoufand
. Ducats : I defi re the favour
of
you,
to
fee iv
refiored to
the true
Proprietor
:
the
ther
b longs
to
fuch
an
one (
who e name I have
forgot)
which
is
valued ac
four
thoufand pieces
of
Eiglit ;
and
in like manner I defire
you
to fee
it
given
to
the
i
ht
wner.
This,
which
is the kaft..,
is my
own ;
which
I defire you to
fell for me an<l whatever
it
produc~s,
tO'
employ
it
in
Maffes
~
co
be
faid for
my
Soul,
that
God
may
accept
thereof,
and pardon
my
ffctnces.
The
ecre–
tary , not pleafed
with
this
offer ,
told
him ,
that he expe6ted from him
ome
larger
offer~
of refHtution, and that if
he
were difpofed
fo-t-0
doe.5
he
would add
ten
thoufand pieces of
Eight of his
own,
to
make up
his a
greater furn, and
that
he
~-
ould beftow
it '
as
he
111<:mld
direCl:.
Sir ,
faid
Carv ajRL
,
r
never raifed
this
War , nor was I
the
caufe
of
it ;
and
that I might
avoid all
ngagements
therein,
I was
upon my
Voyage
into
Spai'n
,
and advanced feveral leagues n the
ay : but
eing
difappointed of means
to
efcape; I took
the
lide
hich
fell
to
my
Lot, a
ouldier of fortune ufe to
doe ; and
a I
did
when I ferved
the
Ernpe–
rour
i
quality of Serjeanr Major, under
Vaca de
Caftro,
who was
Governour of
this Kingdom.
If
there
have
been
Robberies a:nd Plunderings on
either
fid~
com–
mitted,
~
e
mufl: attribute them
to
the
natural effects of
War : for
my
oW"n
art
t
o not ing from any man,
but
contented
my
felf with what
was
given
me
ouf
of
free-will : and at
the c nclufion of
all , they
have
taken every
thlng from
'me ,
I mean,
·hat was given me,
and
what I poffeffed
beforn
rh~
beginning of this
ar.
All Yhich I
refer
to the
infinite mercy of God
our
Lord,
hofe
pardon
I beg for all
rpy
Offences,
and that he would
profper
and
preferve you,
and re–
pay
you the
charity you ha\·
o
re
I me;
for the
Good-will ought
to be
efiee–
med
for the Deed.
And thus
end
d this J?ifcourfe
with
the Secretary.
fo
rhe
afternoon the ecretary
fent him
a
onfefiour,
as
he
defired,
"vhom
he
entem~i
ned with his Confeffion untill towards
the
Evening; and in che mean tifne
the
Officers
of
Jufiice fent
tV\
o or three times
to
haften his difpatch, that
rhe
fentence
rn· ht
be
executed -: but
Carvajal
was defirous
to
protralt the time till
night that
he
mig~t
fuffer
in
the
da,.rk. But
it
was not: granted
him, for the Judge
ianja
and
the
Ma1or
General
Alonfo de A lvarado
,
who
had
paffed fentence upon him
'ere
very
importunate to
have
him
di[patched,
um.ill
which time
every moment
fee–
med weeks
and years. Atlength being brought out of the
door
of
the T
nt he
wa~
crouded
into a fort
of Basket
in nature of a hurdle, drawn
by
two
reacMule
which had not gone above
three
or
four
paces
before he was
overturned
ivith
his
face
on
the ground ;
and liftingup
his head,
as
well as he
was able
he a
lied
ouc
to
thofe
who
follo~ed
him ,
Gende~en,
confider
t
that I am a ' hrifiian , which
was no
f
ooner
fa1d ,
than
he
was
ra1fed
up again
by
at leafi thirty of th Pr·me
Souldiers belonging
tO
D iego Centeno:
and
one
of
them
particularly
cold me ,
chat
when
he ca e
to
the
a.,ket, he thought it had
been one of
the largeft
fize, but
hen h came
to
put
his
nand
under
it,
he
found that he was
fo
thruft
and
er u-
p
pp
~d