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VI.
CHAP. XXIV.
lhe
Orders
and
Methods which
Don Sebaflian
took._
in
l'
,
.Alf
airs.
Egas de Guzman
M
direfled to mak..e an
l,;
furre[iion in
PotocG
5
the feveral firange
Revolutions
which happened in
that Town.
.
I:::\_
ON Sebaftian
himfelf
made.
choice of one of
his
Souldiers,
in whom
Ire
had
~
the greatefi confidence, called
Diego Mendez..,
to
be
Captain of
his
Guard .. and
for better fecurity of his perfon, thirteen
Souldiers
were chofen to
be
lifted
th~ein
being
all
efieemed flout Men,
and
true
and faithfull
to
him;
and
yec
when
~
oor
Gentleman
had occaGon
for them, not
one
man
would
appear in
his
deferice
Another Souldier, called
Gttrf ia
de
Bafan,
was
fent
wich a fmall
party
to the
Elht~
and
Lands of
Pedro
de H inojofa,
to feife
his
Slaves, Horfes and
aJI
other
his Goods
and Faculties ; with Orders to bring back with him thofe Souldiers
who weie dif–
per
fed abroad and lived amongfl: the
Indians,
for
want
of
clothing,
after the
sp11-
nijh
FaU1ion,
which was
very dear;
for with the
Indians,
any
thing ferved:
and
?lfo Ot·ders were given by
Don
Sebafli~m
,
to bring
Diego
de AlmehdrtU
a
prifoner.
Other Souldiers were difpeeded away in purfuit of
Polo
the Lawyer, but neither
party had fuccefs; for
Polo
paffing by the
place
where
D iego
de
AJmendrtU
lived,
gave
him advice
of
the death of General
Hinojofa;
whereuppn
A lmendrtU
getting
as
tnany of
the
Slaves belonging to
Hi"nojqfa
together
as
he was able ,
witn
feven of
his Horfes, he fled away in company with
Polo,
which
foon
carried him
far enough
away out
of
the
reach of
the rebellious
Souldiers,
likewife
Don Sebaftian
difpeeded '
away two Souldiers to
the
quarters of
Potocft,
to inform
Egas de
Gu~man
of
all
that had pailed, that he alfo might cake up Arms, as other5 had done.
Thefe and
~l
the Aetions mentioned in the preceding Chapter,
wich
what
elfe
we !hall
touch
upon
hereafter were
performed the very day
rhac
Pedro de EV1:ojofa
was killed ; of which he endeavoured to fend the firfi intelligence to all parts: che
Meffengers whereof carried
it
with
fuch
fpeed
co
Pouxfi,
that though
it
was fe–
venceen leagues thither, and a bad rocky way, and a River
w
pafs,
yet
they
arrived
there the next morning
by
preak of day: fo foon
as
Egas de
Guz111tt11
re–
ceived this news he affembled his SouJdiers,
which
he
had formerly lified
upon
this
occafion, and
with them and the
two
melfengers
which
brought
the news,
and
with–
out other Arms or Provifions than their Swords and
Daggers
and Cloaks co
co–
ver them, they went immediately
co
the Houfes of
Gome~
de
Solu
and
Mdrtin
de
A lmendra1,
Brother of
Dieg~
de
Almendras,
and
took them with great eafe, and car–
ried
them
Prifoners ro the
Town-houfe,
where they
laiQ
chem in Chains,
and
lodged them
in
a Chamber, with a fecure .Guard upon them. Upon the
report
of rhis pleafing Aetion, many Souldiers came in and joined with
Egas
de
G1RJ11aJJ,
and prefently
~enc
to
the King>s houfe, where they feifed
his
Treafurer
Frtmcifao
de
Yfa.figa '
with his Accomptant
Hernando
de
Alvarado,
and
broke
open
ch~
Royal
Treafury, from whence they robbed above a Million and a half of Silver;
an_d
made immediate Proclamation, that every man, upon pain of Death iliould repair
to the
Markee-place
to
join
wich the Squadron: Then did
Gu~an
make choice
of
a Souldier
called
Antonio
de
Luxan
to
be
Chief
Jufiice
or Recorder of rhe Town,
who
fo
foon as he was in Office, put the Accomprant
H ernando de
Aluarado
co
death
upon
an Accufation, as
Palentino
faith, that he .had.
been in
the
Confpi~acy
with
the
General
Pedro
de Hin ojofa,
to
make
a
Rebellion m the Countrey.
L1ke–
wife
Egas
de
Guz man
difparched away fix or feven Souldiers to a Village
call~
PorcH,
to
get \
hat Men, Arms and
Horfes
they
co~ld
find in
tho ~e
par,c.s. At this
time
a certain Knight of the Order of St.
[phn,
being arnongft
his
l naum
Vafials'
where
he had a good Ell:ate affigned him, and hearing of
the
Marcher .of
Pedr~
dt
H inOJof a ,
wrote a
cong~att~latory Letc~r
to
D on
Sebajlian
~pen
that
fub1elt,
w1~1-
ing
him
much joy of
his high
promot10n ; and defired him prefently
to
fead
him
twenty Mufqueciers, that
he
might go and cake
Gomez:. de -41varado
and
Lor~~o
de
Aldana
who were his
neighbours; and co
tak~
away
all
1ealoufie
and
fufpic1-f
'
·
on
o