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CH A P. : XXV.
Don Sebaftian
and his Officers
f end Captains and Sou/di-
,
ers
to kill the
Marefchal;
John
Ramon
commands
the
Party,
and
dif
arms
Don Garcia
and tho{e who fided
with
him: upon which N ews the
v ery
Souldiers who had ad–
vanced
Don Sebaftian,
did
then murther.him.
T
HE fame Authour
Hernandez
proceeding
in
the Hifiory, Chapter the
fif–
teenth, faith as follows.
They then took the Names, and made a Lill of
all thofe who were
to
goe , and fitted and
pre~ared
them againll the next
day
being Wednefday,
fu1
oifhing them with Arms and mounting them on Beafis
c~
carry them. On W ednefday
~efore
noon , they accordingly· began their march,
namely,
{ohn Ramon, Don Garci Tello, Gome:l:. MogoUon, Gonftdo de Mata,
Fr1mcifca
de Annanafco, Almanf4 ( H ernando
de
Soria) Pedro de Cttjfro, Mateo de Caftanneda,
Campo Frio
de
Carvajal, {ohn Nieto, Pedro Francifco de
Solu,
Baltafar de Eflobedo, Di–
ego MaldtJnado, Pedro de M.arguia, Rodrigo
de
Arevalo, Antonio Altamirano,
Lttcena
and
Hermojilla;
\\ho \ ere no fooner out of T owo, but
Bafia
Godine~
gave immediate
advice to
Egas de G11z.m1tn
of their departure; deliring him co fend fome recruits .
from
che place of
his
aboad
to
{ohn Ramon
and
D on <Sarcia.
The
Letcer \' hich he
\Vroce was co
this
effeet.
Brother
of
mine, and of
"!J
heart,
Oar General
bath
difpceded
our
Brother
Don Garcia
ttnd
John Ramon
to the new Colony or Plantation, to
feifa
on the perfon
of
the good Ma–
refchal; who
being
tak!n or killed, there will be an end of our
Troubles,
for we
fhaO
then
neither
me.etwith Enemjes n Oppojition;
b11t
the wt1y will be
open
1t11d eafie to our
ViCforiu.
·
On. this dejign twenty
fi'Ve
brave Cavaliers are employed
of
{Itch Ya/our, that
I
durft
e~age
them
axainft all mankjnd: Wherefore, Brother
of
mine,
fit
and prep1tre
.JOUr
[elf
with fach
ArmJ as you can get, and fend
fame
Forces from
.JOP.Y
quarters to join with. thofe which are
font from oHr General
,
who told me
,
'1nd
fa
'tu my Opinion, that
it
wi
It
he
4
very
acccpttt-
e farvicc.
It
i.t
the gmera:I fenfe of all men here, that you
dcmonftrated
great
·tendernefi
of
fPirit when
) 'OH
fpared
the bfe of
Gomez de Solis :
the Clemency yo4 /hewed was
.f
0TJ1ething extraordinary, but no1
fa
great as common fame woHld mak$ it to be.
So foon as
Ega1
de
Gu~mttn
had received this Letter, Orders were taken to
dif-
.
patch
a~
ay
fifcy
five
men for the affifience of
Ramon;
of
which
Gabriel de
Pernia
as Capcain, fclnd
Alonfo de Ariafa
\vas Enfign, their Infiructions \
1
ere
to
march
as far as the new
lantarion ,
die1
e
to
join ·with
{ohn Ramon:
accordingly thefe
Men were put into a readinefs, and marched a :\'ay
with
flying
Colours
:
in
the
number of chefe were
Ordonno de Palencia, Diego de Tapia
the Squint-eyed,
Frar.–
cifco de Chaves
the Moor,
!ohn
de
Cepeda, Francifco Pttcheco , Pero Hernandez,
on~
of the Confpirators)
Alonfo Marquina) Pedro
de Yenavide.s
'
{ohn Marquez
,
LP-;).f
de Ej/r1tda, Melchor Pacho, Antonio de Avila,
with other
wh
completed the
num–
ber of
fifty
five Souldiers. Thu far are the words of
Diego Hernandez.
The Rebellion being now made publick and openly decbred, thofe very Souf ..
dier who plotted the Defign , and had made
D on Sebaftian de Cajlilla
the Head
and Gen ral thereof, did now confpire againfi him and aballed and contrived co–
gether hor\· they might kill and delhoy him whom but the other day they had en–
gaged in their Treafon, and as it
v
·ere cornpelle him
to
be their General and
ommander in
hief: but
fo
the are was, and
it
was commonly prattifed
by
the Souldiers in that Empire ever fi.oce the Wars of
Go11f~do
Pifttrro,
to
raife fame
Tyr:mt
or other to be their Leader , and then prefently to renounce him aod kill
him, and pretend all for his Majefl:y's fervi e, and in reco
nee thereof
to
de–
mand fame great Efiate and Lands
to
be given and fettled
on them.
{ohn
de
Ra–
mon
who with
Don G1trcia
was appointed chief Captain of the Forces
\Vhich
we1~e
to
march co the
City
of
la Pa:l:.,
there to kill (as hath been faid) rhe Ma–
refchal
Alonfo
de
Aiv1mtdo;
was no fooner departed from
the
Ciry
of
Plate, than
he
be-