898 / 1060
Royal
Com1nentarie.t.
performed
to
his
Majefiy :
but
neither the
King
nor
I is
Council
chou hr
fi
yield to
hi~
requeft,
but
to maintain the ne\ La\v
and
approve
what
t~e
it
had
aeted
m
t~at m~tt~r.. T~e So~s
of
!-od;igo
~e
C ontr"as
called
Herna;;do
and
P
_
dro
r~[ent
d chis
agnevance with high md1gnanon, and being young
men
1
nd m the heat of their bloud, refolved to rife in Arms: and herein th
y
fi
ral
1
encouragement from one
{ohn
Bermejo,
and other Sonldiers
h.
Companion
ould
were c me from
PerH;
mofr of which were high]y difplea.fed and incenfed
~ ~~
1
a
rhe
Pr.efident, becaufe for all the Cervices they
ha9'
done
in
the
Wars
again
t
~"falfJ
PtfttTl'o
~
he
fuffered them to fiar
1
e;
and mfiead ?f making
provilioo for
them,
he
highly rewarded thofe who had taken
part wuh
Pip:i;·ro
and
banilhed
fucb as
~ad
I
rved
t~e
King
out of the Confines of
Peru;
'
idi thefe
and th
Jike
Complaints they animated the two brothers
to
undertake
fome great emerprife
J)erfu
adingthem that
in
cafe they could once get t
'o
or rhree
hundred
Souldiers,
rh_ey
mi.gh~adventure
t<?
invade
_Pent:,
and
~ore~ver,
being already
furnifhed
w1ch Sh1ppmg and
all chmgs
requ1fi!e
for
Nav1gauon ,
they might
"ith
much
eafe
c~anfporc
their men thither
5
_where being landed they" ould foon
be increa.
fed . with
all
chat
par~y
ofmen which the Prefident
Gafca
had
difobliged.
Having
re
fol
ved
on
th~
matter , they privately lifted · men , and
pro
ided
Arms
and
when they found rhemfelves !trong enough to refift the Officers of
JoO:tce
'chey
began
ro
put
their defigns into execution : and
in
the
firfl:
place they fell
up~n
the
:Biihop of che Province,. who having oppofed their
Father
in all
his
negoriation~
they in revenge thereof caufed certain Sou1diers
to
enter his houfe,
and kill him
as he wasp aying at
Chefs,
And then prefencly they fee up theiJ.1tSeandard,
and
declared for Libercy, calling their Army che Ke&pers of the Liberty.
Then
they
firced Cuch hips out to
ea a
"'ere requifoe, and failed into the South-fea,
wirh
imention
co
expetl: the coming of the Prefident, and to take and rob
him
in
his
paifage; for they had rec ived intelligence, that he was on his
v0yage
towards
the
main
Land
with
all
the treafore belonging
to
his
Majefiy.
Howfoe er
it
fee–
rned m©fi
advifea:ble
to
go
firfi
co-
P
anmna,
there
to
receive information of
the
fiace of Affairs ; and befides,
they
were
in
a better pofr and fiation there, to
fail
from thence
to
any part
of
Peru,
tban from
Nicaragua.
And having
fhipped about
three hundred men, they arrived at the Port of
Panam1t_,
where before they
made
a
defcent into the Town, they informed' rhemfelves by fome of the Inhabitants
whom
they
had raken of
alJ
which had Jately pall: ; and
howthe Prelident was
alr:eady
landed
with all
the King's Treafure. And
now
T
as.iftlieir
good
fortune
had offered this great bo
cy
to
their hand
they
expelted untill night;
and then
fecredy entered the Port
wirhour any
noife, on confidence that the Prefident
was
lodged in the City, and lay fecure, apprehending no harm; and therefore
they
doubted not bot
co
furprize
him \ ithour
lofs or hurt to themfelves.
Thus
far
A;1-
guftine Garate.
And
Gomara
having alrnofi
fa
id the fame thing, add ,
Chap.
19 3.That
d 1€
Csnf?eras
g0t
tllp
all
the
Pifarrifts,
who were
Red
from
Gafea,
and
orb.erFugitives and men of defperare fortunes, ana refolved to auerupc
fome
plo1rs
ro
enrich themfelves, declaring that the Trea[ure and Dominton-of
RB714
did
by
a
lawfull
Title belong
to
chem, as Grand-children defc
nded
from
the
P drarias
1~
A v ila,
who
were in
Partner01ip
'''ith
Pi farro Almagrg
and
L11ques.
Though
th1s
' ·a bur a weak pretence, yet it ferved the mm, and brought in a great number of
illains and Mifcreants
1:0
fide
\~
itb
chem;
and under
chis colo
f
ch
comrni
ed
modi
fpoil
and robbery
and
[ufficiendy enriched
rhemfeh
,
bad
th
y
kno ·
n a
mean and
\'herewith to be contented. Thus
far
Gomara.
,J
Now the \\hole
tory
is chi ; The
Contreras
entered
Pa11.1n:11.t
by
night and
made
tnere firfl: attem
t
on the houfe of D oetour
Roblu.
In
£.
ur
hip ~
h
in
ore.they
to k eig t hundted thm1fand pieces of Eight, fome of'; hich "' re
r
~he
King'
and fome
for
account of private men:
in
the Treafurer
hon e.
r.hey
fi
ized
o
oa
fix
hundred thoufan more
\Vhich
were ready c h
e
be n c
r:
d
t
Nomln~
iU
D ios,
as
Gom.:tra
repo ·rs ,
Cha .
19
3.
And befides t ·
UJntit
f
d
and
.. ilver,
the robbed che
hops of many rich Merchant
whence
ch
Y
hm red
foch va!l:
quantities
of
commodities' hich came from
Spain,
chat
ch
Y ·
rrou-
bled h
,~,.
co
difpofe
f
them
r
carry them
a\:
ay.
o~eove·
c
Y
fent one
of
their
m
anions call d
Salguero
'
ith
a
any of
~
tufq eners
by way
f
L~1.
Cr
11 -
z...e1
ro
the
Ri
er of
Chayre,
upon iote ligence rhat rhe
hd fent
grear
qu
dn~~
of:
old and
ilver by t
at
road
to
ombre
de
D ios :
and
S.zl:Kero
o
e~ook
an
1e 1ze
even
y
lo
of Silver
hich \ as no as
yec
!hip
ed
aboar , bemg
ro
rhe \a ue