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VI.
upon
~his
point, and amongfi other
thing~
told
him,
that in
cafe he would
make
~1m
his
Deputy
but
for
one
m<?nth, he would
fecure his life to
him,
which
was
m
great danger, and free
the
Cuy
from
the
fears
of
an Infurrell:ion
which
ch
fi
Gentlemen.
So~ldiers.
were
con_triving to
raife : b?t
the Governou:
·repofed
tba~
confidence
m his Wealth
and m the power of
htS
Office, and in
the
Reputation
which
he had f?rme_rly gained,
that he made no account of
what
they
faid,
nor of
what he
faw
with lus own eyes.
CH AP.
XXII.
The
General receives infonnations
of
the Plot
hy
divers
other
ways
and
n1eans.
His bravery
and
courage,
and negle[t.
to
prevent
it.
.
The
Souldiers
confpire
to kill
him.
T
HE
Souldiers, proceeding
in
th~ir. reb~llious
defigns,
dif~erfed
many Libels
abroad ;
fome whereof
were
mtunauons
to
Don
Sehaftian
de
Caftilla
and
other
Souldiers
of
note,
to
be
carefull
of
their own perfons,
and
to
be
w~ry
of
rhe
Governour, ,,·ho
defigned to kill them : other
Libels
on the other fide were
cafi out againft
the Governour himfelf threaming his
life :
all
which were
fpread
abroad by
the
arts
of malicious men, whofe bufinefs
it
was
to
raife
jealoufies,
and
inflame
rbe minds of men with
anger
againfi each
other ;
3.t5
Palentino
frequenrly
expre!fes
upon this occafion,
in
divers
places
of
his Hifiory, Chapter
eleven, Book
the
iecond, as followerh.
·
At this
time
Polo
the
Lawyer did often
acquaint
Pedro de
Hinojefa·witb
thefe mat–
ters,
perfuading him
very much to
cake the examinations and
punHh
the Offen–
ders: bur all
he could
fay
availing
little,
one
Saturday
after
.Mafs,
being
the fourth
of
March,
he took occaGon
to
declare his mind
to
the Guardian of the
Convent
of
St.
Frttncu,
erfuading
him to
fignifie
the matter
to
the Governour, and
co cell
him, that it \ ·as intimated
to
him in Confeffion : \vhich
rhe Guardian
according–
ly
did, though it made
little
impreaion on
Pedro de Hinojofa.
In
like manner on
the
fame
day afcer dinner
Martin de Robles
[poke
it
publickly before much
compa–
ny, and
told
him
plainly that
the Souldiers defigned
to
kill him: but
Pedro
de
Ifi..
nojofa,
ho
had
rejetted
the reafons
which '
ere formerly given him
for driving
our
the Souldiers from
"'ichin the
limits
of his
J
urifdittion,
did
not
well relifh
thi
difcourfe,
and
therefore
told
de-Robles,
that
he fpake thefe \"\
ords
defignedly
to
have
wime~
of what he
had alledged before
him ;
to
which
Polo
the
LaV\
yer,
' ho
wa
there
prefent> made anfwer
\x.:ith forne
heat and
anger, that
he fhould
look well
to
himfelf, and
that
in cafe
Martin
de
Robles
did
offer to give his
Infor–
mation he couJd not
refofe co
take
it;
and
if he made not good his Tefiimony,
and proved what he alledged, he
''as
liable
to
pnnifhment
and
forfeitures
for
de–
fauk thereof;
but
the Information is
fa
plain,
faid he, that
it
needs no
other
evi- ·
dence,
being not
carried on
in the dark, but
fo
openly in
the
fireets that
the
very
fiones
were ready
to
a-y
out and bear
tefiimony
thereof;
and
therefore it
is
your
duty immediately
to
rake
the
Examination , and
ufe the
diligence
required
in
~
cafe
fa
important
and
difficult
as this :, and that be
would be contented
to
lofe
his
life
if
he
made not good
every fyllable of the allegations.
In
fhort,
Pedro de
Hi–
nojofa,
who wa
of
an
humour ne er
to recede
from
hi own
fancy,
re~ied,
in a
haughty, proud
manner,
that the
ouldiers
frood in fuch awe
f
him,
that
if
once
he but lifted up his
hand they would all
tremble,
and have
no power
ro
burc
or
offend him; and with that
he broke
off
the difcourfe, charging every
one not
co
urge
it
farther. The
next day, being unday,
after Dinner,
Pedro de Hinojofa,
being
in company
with
Martin de Roh/es,
and
Pedro Hernande:G de
Paniagua,
and other per–
fons,
difcourfmg
pleafantly
of
indifferent matter ,
'fohn de Huarte
and
oth~r
Sool–
diers came
cowards
the
Evening
to
make him a Vific, fuppofing
that
by his
coun–
tenance
and
manner
f
receiving them they might make
a judgrn_ent
of
whad
thoughts
he
conceived
in his mind ;
for he
had the
charaeter
of a plam
ma~,
han
wit
out