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lows
d been Traitours more than
t
¥ice
or thrice co th
King, and
falfe to their
Friends,
as
will
appear
by
the Sentence which, fome
few
months afcerwards,
was .
palled
upo
Godinez.;
yet they
cry
up nothing now but
duty
and loyalty to
the
King. And 1ere it is remarkable, that from the Murther of the General
Pedro
Hinqjof a
o
the de th of
Don
Sebajfian,
cbere was not above
the
[pace of
five
days
hen een (as
P
alentino
writes) for
HinfJjofa
was killed on the fixth of
March,
and
Don
Schaftian
on the eleventh fol!owing,
in
the
y~ar
1
5).
3.
.
.
And now
Bafco Godinez.
and his Comrades havmg
killed
Seba/lza~,
they dehve–
red
[ohn
Orti~
de Ca.rate
and
Pedro Hernandez. Paniagua
Out
of Prifon an9
C~aios,
and fee
them at liberty, and told them, that what they had aeted was
wJCh
mtent
to
glve them their freedom, and to deliver the City
fr01n
that total mine and de–
firuetion which thofe Rebels and Traitours
had
plotted againfi
it,
and
alfo
out
of
a
principle of Loyalty
to
ferve
his
Majefiy. And
Vafco
GoJinez
particularly
faid
thefe words
(as
are repeated by
Palentino,
Chap.
17.)
Gentlemen,
for
the
love
of
God, fince you fee that
I
have
rece~ved
a wound in my
Hand,
be pleafed to apply
your fe
ves
to the Souldiery, and encourage and exhort them to fiand
firm
in·rheir
loyalty and fervice to
his
Majefiy.
But when
rohn
Ortiz,
de
Car..
1te
faw
that
all the
Affiiffinates
and
Murtherers of the General were aetually amongfr
the
Souldiers,
and
that the principal Ruffian and Villain called
Hernando Guillada
was a
Captain,
he began to fear left they iliould
kill
him, to prevent which, he cried out aloud,
that they fhould make
Guillada
their Captain, and perhaps he thought
it
might be
convenient fo to be. Thus far
Palentino.
Thofe words of
[chn Ortiz.. de Garate
were
. wifely and feafonably fpoken, for 'tis believed that they faved their lives thereby :
in the mean time
rajco
Godine~
went to have the wound of his Hand dreffed, of
which he was more tender than of the life of
Don Sebaftian:
the fame night he
difpatched
away
fix Mufquetiers to guard the ways leading to
Potocji,
to
intercept
all
Advices which
might
be feat hereof to
Ega1 de
Guz.man,
and prefently feifed
three of his Souldiers,
and
before
it
was day he hanged them up,
for he
knew
that
they
were Villains, who were acquainted with
all his
Plots, Treacheries
and
Intrigues:
fo
foon
as
it was
day, he
feat
to
call
rohn
Ortiz.
de
Ca.rate,
Pedro
Hernande~
Paniagua,
Antonio Alvarez..
and
Martin Monge,
who
V\
ere
all
Citizens and Free-men
of the City,
belides
which there were no others
at
that time; and he told chem,
with high
commendations of his own merit, the great danger he had incurred in
killing the late Tyrant, the fervice he had done his Majefiy thereby, and the par–
ticular benefit and happinefs he had procured to them in particular, and to
the
whole
City
in general:
And
that now in return and recompence of fo great
and
meritorious Services, he defired nothing more of them than to be chofen Chief
J
ufiice of that City and the parts adjacent; and to be nominated Cap
rain
General
of the. Forces, fince
chat
EgM
de
Guzman
was very (hong,
an~
had many Soaldi–
ers with him in
Potocji;
and to maintain this degree and qualiry, he defired
co
have the Manors of the General, and thofe Vaifalages of the
Indian1
conferred ,,
upon him, being
nmiv·
vacant by his death. To
~
bich the Citizens made anfwer,
that they were not a number fufficient to agree upon fuch Eleltions, and feared
to run thernfelves into danger in cafe they did. But
{ohn
Ortiz ,
apprehending left
Godinez
!hould take this refufal in
ill
part, anfwered, more out of fear than affec–
tion,
that in cafe
Gamez Hernandez,
who was a man learned in
the
Law, '' ou1d
·
give his opinion that they might legally doe it, that then they would readily com–
ply
with his defires:
to
which the Lawyer gave his opinion readily, and that
they might doe
it
and much more, in refpeB: to the great merit and fervices of
Godine~.
Hereupon a publick Notary
was
called, and before him
Gf>dinez
was
nominated to be Lord Chief Jufiice, and Captain-General of the Souldiery
j
and
for fopport of thefe great Dignities, the Efiate of the late General
Pedro de
Hino–
jofa
was fettled upon him, which (as we have faid) with the Mines of Silver,
yielded him two hundred rhoufand pieces of Eight of yearly rent: an excellent
and worthy reward for two fuch famous pieces ofTreafon and Murther which this
VilJain
had contrived and woven, purpofely to wind himfelf into this great Eltate,
tyh1ch
he was refolved to poifefs by any means or ways wharfoever. And in
like manner this honefi Lawyer got himfelf into another allotment called
Puna,
and
t
hold
it
in
Cuftodiam,
untill it fhould be otherwife difpofed. Upon this
paffage
Diego
Hernandez.
faith as follows.
It is manifefl: that tl}ey intended to
pay
hernfelves, and to fell at a good rate the power they had over the Souldiers, and
make advantage of the dread and terrour which the Citizen conceived of chem,
·Im