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VI. .
Rtryal Commentarie.r.
he began to enter into Treaty with fame Friends, that ic would be good policy
to
renounce the Caufe of
Don Garcia
and
Don Sebaftian,
and
co
declare themfelves
for
his
Ma
jelly,
againO:
all
Rebels: And whereas the humour of the Souldiers
~as
generally inclined hereunto,
the
Propofal took very well arnongfi
them ,
fo
that they marched
aw~y wi~h
chis good intention. And as
Don Garcia
w_as upon
the way he received mtelbgence of the Defign and Plot of
Ramon,
which was
'·
not
fira~ge,
becaufe
it
was
~fual
for th_etTPro
fe~l
one the
ot~er;
but he rook
lir–
cle care of his perfon, and
ili~hted
.the
~n.formano~:
for,
bemg a Y<?ung man,
an~
of
litcle
experience, and unskilfull
m
nulitary affairs, he formed vam confiderati–
ons within himfelf, which failed him in the end : and, not fo much as acquain–
ting his Friends with the Advices he had received, he proceeded on
his
way,
till
he
fell into thofe Snares which with due circurnfpection might have been
a ..
voided.
.
.
. ,
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11
.
[ohn
Ramon ,
in
hiS
fecond days march, receive
1~te
igence, that
Don
Garcitt
was acquainted with his I?efign ; for
t~ofe
Peop4;!
~laid
a double Game, and car–
ried News and Informauons to all Sides and Parnes. Wherefore
(ohn Ramon,
thought
it
time to make fhort work, and fo prefently difarmed five of the
principal Souldiers which belonged to
Don Garcia,
and took away their Horfes
from them : and ha!l:ning with what fpeed they could after
Don
Garcia,
who was
~
advanced before them, they foon ovettook him and his Companions, who were
four perfons, and difarmed them of their Lances and Mufquets,
and
difmounted
them from their Horfes; but not to put a farther affiont on them, they devefted
them not of the privilege of Souldiers
to
wear their Swords girt about them.
Don
Garcia,being
Corry
that he had not ferved
Ramon
the fame Trick that
Ramon
had
plaid ·
upon him, offered to join
with
him, and declare for
his.
Majefi:y ; but his propo–
fal
was rejeeted, becaufe
Ramon
was refolved to appropnate all the merit to him–
fe1£
Don
Garcia
and his Comrades, finding themfelves in this defl:itute and forlorn
condition , refolved to return to
Don Se6aft ian de
Ca.ftilla :
and on the road they
difpatched away a Souldier called
Rodrigo de Arevalo
with the News; who made
fuch expedition , as
Palentino
faich, chat he arrived
in
the
City
that night about ·
nine
a
clock, being the eleventh of
~rch;
which being the hour when the Soul–
diers were drawn .up in the Markee-place, and difcourfed and converfed together,
they faw
A revalo
coming a-foot, with a melancholy and dejeC:ted countenance,
at
which fight they all flocked about him co hear the News ; as
did
alfo
Don
Seh11:..
ffian,
\!vho was not the leafi concerned therein.
Don Se6aftian,
having underfiood the News, called a Council of rhofe whom he
efieemed his mofi aifured and intimate Friends:> namely,
Va~o
Godinez:.., BaltafVlr
Velazquez..
and
Tello de
Vega,
and demanded their advice and fenfe upon the pre–
fent Emergency; but they, being
all
divided in their opinions,
Vafco Godinez..,
who
had been the moll atl:ive Man in chis Rebellion,
(as he
himfelf had confefied )
took
D on Sehaftian
afide and apart from the re!l:, and told him plainly , that
if
he
would fecure
his
Party and make good his Caufe ; he
rnufr
immediately
kill
eigh–
teen or twenty Men who \Vere tnen atl:ually in the Market-place, being notori–
ouOy known robe affetted to the King's party; who being taken off, there would
be
none remaining befides Friends and fuch as he might confide and
cruft
himfelf
with;
and that nothing then could fiand
in
his way ro oppofe the attainment of
his ultimate defires.
Don Sebaftian
of whom we have formerly given the charac–
ter of a Noble and generous nature; anfwered him, what have thefe Gentlemen
done to me, that
I
fhould kill them
?
and commit
an
outrage fo bloudy and unpa–
ralleled
as
this?
If
it be neceffary for the fuccefs of my defigns, to
kill
thefe men
I
would rather be unfortunate , and fuffer them ro kill me:> than draw Cuch
guil~
upon my fel£ No fooner had
Godinez,
heard this faying, and underfiood the fenfe
of
Don Sebaftian,
than he refolved at the fame moment to
kill
him, fince he would
not affent
to
the death
of
thofe whom he profcribed for enemies; and then he faid
to I:im,
S~r, Pr~y
expect
m~
awhile here, and I
will
remrn to you again prefently
5
having
fa1d
this, he went into the Market-place, where the Souldiers were fiill
remaining; and feeking amongft the croud for thofe whom he had named, and
profcribed to be killed , he found them divided in feveral parries, and becaufe he
could not fpeak privately to them, by reafon of the company then prefenr, he
took
them
one by one fingly by the hand, and fqueezed
them
hard
three
or
four
times, \ ·hich
was the token
given
them
to prepare,
and affifi him
in
the
T rea-
y
y y y y •
fon wh·ch