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Commentaries.
wichout diffimulation
:
thefe Vifitants obferved every word he faid, and all his
motion and behaviour, which were courteous and obliging cowards them, with–
out r
e
leafi fymptome of jealoufie or fufpicion of evil praetices; and co
ming tofpeak of the Souldiers, he told them, that he was glad
to
fee fuch
bra~e
fello.wsin
the Town, and chat he efieemed them to be the flower
of
Peru:
Wl(h
' h1 hfaying they parted vvich great fatisfatti n from him, and carried the news
co
Don
Sebaftian
a
the ocher Confpiratours,
\ rho
theteupon gave immediate order
to
put
ff
th~
Sports which were appointed , and that they fhould affem le together
that
nig~.t,
and in the morning begin he Rebellion, that the Plot which had been
fo
long conceived,
a
d
of
which chey had been long in labour, might not prove
abortive at the la!l:. And here
Palentino
ends his Chapter.
The Sou die. s, not being able to fuffer any longer
delay
of a matter
which
they
fo eainefily defoed, agreed by
common
confent
to
kill the General and make an
Ioforre{tion
drough
the hole Conmrey. Tie principal perfons in thi<;
Coofpi–
racy
were
Don
Sebaftian
de Caflilla,
1:g,1u
de
Gufman,
Bafto
Godines,
Baltefnr
Vela~que~,
Gomez..
H er-r1;.1ndez.
the Lawyer, belides feveral
other
Souldiers of note, molt
o• "
lhich
v.
e hel prefrnt in the
City
cf
Phite;
for, as hath been faid, they in-·
viced and
encru~aged
one the
other.
Ega1
Guz.man
came thither purpofely
to
en–
ter
i
1 ..
0
the
c
iulc,
though he pretended to the General that his defign was
to
ob• ;- in hi
pardon
from the
Crown
for having killed
Hernan de Mexit:i,
~
hich
the
good
G
i
eral believed
to
be true ; and, fufpecting no defign in him againfi his
own
r
e and
fafery,
he readily gave Letters in his favour both to the Secular
and
E
lefieiili'"'a
!
d~s
of
Potocfi,
in both which Courts, as he faid, he was to be ac–
q
itce'"··
The
t:
Letters of recommendation
were
fent by the Souldiers (now re–
f< •
~d
to rebc
1
)
to
Egd4
de
Ga~m~m
then at his Lodging in
Potocfi,
with orders,
ti
to
tocm as he
fh
'Uid
hear that the General was killed, that then he and his
cor_. ·,,
ion
11
u d
pief~ncly
be in Arms. And
now
every thing being prepared;
the
rlt;
i'
ates met in the Chamber of one
Hernando Guillado,
where they refol–
ved
t•
act their
loudy iurent
the
next morning by break of day : for execution
of
hi(:h
D~m
Sebaftian
appointed feven perfons onely together with himfelf to
kill the General ; fo · if many were employed,
it
would give a jealoufie, and oc–
cafion
1:
res to
he
Chuc, and caufe an alarm over the whole
City.
Garci Tello
de
Guzma~
h2d
~
t \\,
ith
him into his Chamber about fourteen or fifteen other
fiouc
C ot
1pan
on~,
.vho
'ere to divide thernfelves in feveral parties
about
the
Streets near the Ge eral's Houfe to affift and relieve
Don
Sehaftian,
if
occafion
tbould
he.
Another party of about nine or ten perfons, having one
Gomez Mo–
gollon
for their
Chie~
'\'ere placed in an empty Houfe where none inhabited, be–
long:ng tq
Hernando Pip:irro,
and there attended for the fame delign.
In
this po–
fiure tl--ey
continued
all night, and next morning by qreak of
day
they fent Spies
to
the
corner of every Street,
to
hearken
if
any n9ife
''ere
in the City, or the
Hoofe of rhe General; and finding the ·Gate open, they prefendy gave notice
£hereof to the Confpiratours, who refolved to kill the General in his Bed.
CHAP
93