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VI.
Royal Com1nentaries.
on of the deGgn; he advifed that the ouldiers iliould not be fem
by
the ordina–
ry road, bot by private ways and untrodden paths, for which good contrivance,
this good Gentleman paid afrerwards to his
colt.
The day following after the death of
Hino;ofa , Baltafar de
f/e/a~uez:..
and
Bafco
Godine.;::.
came
to
the City, who had been chief Infiruments in that
Mutiny,
an
fuch as had contrived and fomented the Plot, as will appear hereafter; and \ hie
is confirmed by
Palentino
in thefe words. Whilfr
Don Sebajfian
was preparing to
receive them, they both enrred the Town;
Sebajfian
was over-joyed to fee them,
and alighting from his Horfe , he met
Godine~
a-foot, and they both embrace
with all the Ceremony of good correfpondence. Then faid
Bafco
~odinez.,
to
Se–
baftian,
Sir, about five leagues from hence, I firfi received the joyfoll news of chi
.glorious ACl:ion
fo
much
defired by me. To which
D on
Sehaftian
taking off
his
har, made
anG~· er;
Thefe Gentlemen here were pleafed to make choice of
m~
for their General, which Charge I accepted unrill fuch time as you arrived here
to
eafe me thereof;
whiGh
therefore now I renounce, and willingly refign
it
imo
your hands. But
Bafco
Godine~
refufed to accept
it;
faying, that that Office cot11d
not be better fupplied by any, than by himfelf; and that his endeavours tended
wholly
to
fee him dvanced to that Dignity and Charge. Afier which Co91ple–
mentS they retired from the Company, and difcourfed together privately and
. apart. Afrer
ivhich
Don Sehafti11n
made Proclamation, whereby
Bafco
Godinez.
w·as
declared Lieutenant General, and that he iliould be obeyed accordingly by the
Souldiery upon pein of death; and
Balta{ar de
7/el~que~
was made C aptain of
Horfo. Moreover,
Sebaftian
faid
to
Godinez:..;
Sir,
it
was
impoflible to have
de–
ferred this aCl:ion untill your coming , for if we had , we had loll: our oppormniry,
but for the fumre we fhall regulate our felves by your direction. To which
Godi–
ne~
replied, that neither then, nor at any other time could he erre in fuch wife
proceedings, and that he hoped in God, that rhofe fieps he had made with
fo
much
difficulty and hazard, would tend
to
the happinefs and fettlement of
all
things. And fo turning
to
the Company then prefent, he faid, that
fine~
they had
not killed the
Maref~hal
Alonfo
de
Alvarado
,
,twas well he was not prefent at the
late action; and that
if
he had been acquainted
rhere~th
before he had been
fo
far advanced on his
way,
he would have returned
and
have killed the
fald
Alonfo
de
Alvarado.
And that a matter of this impommce might not be omitted,
Don
Se–
baftia11
called a Council: at which were prefent
Bafco Godinez,
Balta};ir
Pel~quez:..,
Hernando
Guillada,
[ohn Ramon, Gomez. Hernandez..,
the Lawyer,
Diego de Ava/01, Pedro
de!
Caftilto,
and
Don
Garci Tello,
befides divers others.
Bafco Godinez.
undertook
t
defigo, and. to command the
parry
employed thereupon: but
Don
S1!haftian
faid
that he hacl promifed
it
already to
{ohn Ramon.
And
it
was agreed ,
t~at
twent;
five Souldiers be drawn out for that exploit, and that they fhould be commanded
by
[ohn
Ramon,
and
Don
Garcia,
With Orders
to
rake and pofiefs themfelves of the
City
of
la Paz.,; Bafco Godinez
faid, chat the enterprife would be eafie
and thcu:
he would write to
[ohn de
Vargas
and
Martin de Olmo1
co be affifient therein. Thus
far
piego Hernandez,.
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