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R~yal
Commentaries.
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BooK
VI.
th
all flo ked
to
the ublick Hall of Judicature: and the Judges beino fet
. n tbe
~ench,
the eals
f
the Infirument were broken up, and the
writing
r~Pd
1
1
µu
1
Itek ; The. iffue of which
w
s
this:
Thofe who had the leafi ex
ctari
a
we· favoured
\\1th
good aHot em ; and thofe
ho
had
mofi were
en~el
1
°fi
<
ut,
and
r
main
d
without any difiribution.
It
was
pleafant to
fee and
heay
eh
t
.
fi
f.
l
.
dr..
r.
rte
1
·er
ity
o mens e
1a
iour an
ia
mgs; iome came out
'~' ith
pleafam
counte
_
e , and ocher
(rO\\
ned, and
f1
re
and curfed
the
Prefidenr,
being now
bec~~e
de
erace and \'
ith
ut
any hope,
&c.
hus
far
Palenrino.
Le
Prefidem
with all fpeed
lefr
the
C~mnr~ey,
not
co
hear and
underfiand
the
~
eproaches and
urfes ' hich \
ould
b~
given
mm;
and hafined
as
fafi
as
was pof.
tibl~
to
Pa11am
;
nor would he mer
mt
Port by che way
co
take
tefrefhmen
hav1_og a perfett
l?atred
and abhorrence to
che
Counn·ey
:
V\
ith him he
carried
LZ
ccnc1ado
Cepeda
pnfoner, who
fc
rm
rly had
been one of
his Majefiy's
Jufiices ·
tho
re King oms and
ro inces; and though the
re!idenc had a
fufficienc
pow~~
r hear and judge
bis
au~e?
yet,
in r
gard
he
ha~ promulg~d
an Ad:
of Pardon
t
all
e
µle, he
\Vas
um'
illmg
co
call
thofe faults mco quefi1on which
he had
for–
merly forgiven ·
and
therefore remitted his care
co
the fupreme Royal
Council of
the
Indies.
And being come
to
falladolid,
where the
urc then
refided, his
caufe
~as
re-affumt'tl and
his
fc
ults opened, with many aggravating
circamfiances
of the
Attorney '- en ral
:
And though
Cepeda,
in def< n e of
hirnfelf
alledged
that
the
other Judges and he had
aa
d
all
things with intention to ferve
his
Majefiy
and
\\ ich d fign
t
qualifie
and abate the fury of fediticus and
mucinous
men,
whofe
fpirit were heated and put into fermentation by that indifcreet rigour which the
Vice-king
Blefco
1
Hnne~
ufed in execution of thofe new Laws which
were
the
caufe of all tho[e Trou les which enfued =.,bur there Allegations availed
liccle
in
his
fav
u ,
nor
\''as
it
poflible
to
prevent the fentence
'A
hich
was palfed
upon
him, co
dye
as a
Tra}
tor.
And though his friends and relations ufed
all
che
interefl:
they were able to gain his
pa1
don ;
yer,
feeing
they
could
nor avail for his
I1fe,
they then ende voured to moderate the fenrence, that he might
not
dye as
a
raytor, and
o
his
bloud be attaioted
:
to
avoid
V\
hich
a contrivance was
made
with a dofe
of
poifon, whereby he paffed more eafily and
quietly
into
the
next
' orld before fencence
was
pronounced
formaUy
agaioll:
hirri
at the Tribunal
of
J
uftice. All
hich was
the
common
and
publick difcourfe
in
Peru,
and
which
I
heard a terwards confirmed in
pain
by
Come
Indians
ho happened to enter before
me into difcourfe about the death of
Licenciado Cepeda.
And
it
is
farther faid of
Ce–
peda,
that
he
dircourfing after the death of
GonpJlo Pi9arro
of che fucceffes of
chelate
Affairs,
and of the femence of death
n
hich pa!fed upon himfelf; and that
he
was
condemned as a Traytor, co have his Aoufe demolifbed, and the ground
thereof
co be fowed with alt, and hi Head
to
be fixed on a Spike ofIron;
that
he
fhould
fay ,
he would maintain the
caufe
of
Gonpdo Pi f arro
to
have been jufi and
legal,
and that he
as no Traycor co hi Majelly ; and that he atted entirely for confer–
vation of the Empire ; and chat if he did not make thi good, he
would
pawn
his
Life, and offer his Throat co the
I
nife; provided he might have the Parliament
of
Paru
or
the Univerlity
of
Boloni1t
for hi Judge ,
r
any
ocher Court
of Jufiice,
nor fubjelted to the Imperial
ominion. Dr.
Gonfalo
YllefcM,
in his Pontifical
Hifrory
[peaks alrnoft the
fame
thing
of
Ceped11,
as before mentioned, whofe '-'
ords
are as
follm
eth :
_
.
Amongft the many famous and renm ned perfons who were concerned in
che
Troubles of
Peru,
there wa one
Licenciada
Cepeda,
\\
h atted a confiderable pare;
he was
a
Native of
Tordeji/la;,
and one
of
the Judges who came over \l\'ith the
Vice-king
Blafco
Nunne:t::.,
Vela :
It were not jull: to concea! his Name, having been
very altive in his
Majefiy's
fervice, whilft he employed hin1felf in char
duty:
and
afterwards,
being engaged with
Gonfalo Pifarro,
he
01ared
a great pare in his illegal
praetices. This
Cepeda,
at
the
conc1ufion of
all~
\'hen both Armies were drawn
up in the Field to give
Barrel ,
revoked over
to
the Imperial Camp, wirh fame
danger of his life, for
Pifttrro
[enc to purfue him, and he was left for dead
upon
a
wee
moorifh piece of ground. Though
G.tfca
received him
rhen
with great figns
of
affeltion
and.good-will ;
yet afrerwards he brought him into
SP_ttii1,
and
ca~fed
him
to
be
clapt up in the
Kiog,s
prifon, and was
afterwards
arraigned of High.
creafon.
Cepeda
made
fo
good a defen
e
for
hi~felf,
and
wit~
fo
m1Jch reafon,
(for he knew very well the mam:1er co defend
his
Caufe) that
lt
\~as
generally be–
lieved he would
have
been
acqumed with
mu h
honour
:
but
dymg
of
a
fi~knefs
m
the