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VI.
Royal
Com
ntartes.
Auchour, who afterwards proceeds a.
foll
\~S.
When
Don
Ga:cia
perceived,
faith
he
that he had but a !bore tinie
to
live, he deGred to be
admitted
to
confeffion ;
and
\I\
hen
rohn
Ortiz.. de Garate
came
in
to
fee
him, he
befeeched
him, that fince
be was fhortly to die> he would intercede
for ~ him
to have one
days
time to re..,
collect himfelf, and
confider
of his fins, for that he \'
1
as a young man, and had
been a great finner. At that
•infiant
Baltafar Ve!az:.quez:.
enrred
~he
Chamber, .
and
without [offering
{ohn
Ortiz..
fo much
as
to
(peak, he commanded him to void the
Room and told
Don
Garcia
that he had
but
-an
hours time given
him
to
live,
which'he was to make ufe of for preparation of his Soul: and being in confeffion,
he often
admoni01ed him
to
difpatch ; and before he had done,
e threw the
C ord about
his
Neck, \. hich he drew
fo
hard
that it brake;
and then
applying
another R0pe, \ 'hich he fuppofed roo
£10\1\
in
doing execution, he drew out his
Sword
and cut his Throat
and Head
off
therewich ; ·
hich
being done,
[ohn
de
·
Orti~
clothed him in hi Burial Shrouds, and caufed him
to
be interred. The like
fort of
J
ull:ice
they
paife
upon others, not admitting
any
of
chem
to confeffion,
nor ro any legal proceedings, left at rhe Tribunal of Juftice, they {hould have
im–
peached
chem
to have
b~en
t e chief and original Plotters .and
Contriv~rs
of this
Rebellion. Thus far
Die~~o
H ernandez..,
Chap.
19.
who
a little before
d1fcourfmg
of this m.ttter
failh
a follmvs :
It was the great Mafier-piece of all their policy,
co put met to death without giving them time to confefs, left
the~
01ould accufe
them
and
difcover
their Plots and Treacheries; and as to thofe in whom
they
had
;ny
confidence
of
being fecret and faithfull to, the defign , they would keep
in ha d and e.•cour ge, allmving them time to be gone and make their efcape ;
vhich they aeted
by
traverfing Jufiice to that
fide
and
party
whereunt
their
o
n
inte
·efi
moil: chiefly direeted.
Here
x;
ith
Diego
Hernandez..
concludes his eighteenth
Chapter
j
:md \
ich
m ch
reafon detefis the abominable
praetices,
cruelties and treacheries which thefe men
acred npo
their
befi
and moft intimate Friends : for they
were
the
\-Vretches
who
had defigned and contrived the death of
Pedro
de
Hinajofa,
and had above three
years
befc
re refolved
to
kill him, in cafe he fhould refufe to bec9me their Head
and chief
o nmander in their intended Rebellion. And then afrerwards
the
vil–
lany
and bar arous cruelty of thefe men is not
to
be exprelfed ; ''"ho kllled thofe
:vho knew their "'
ickedne~,
and caufed chemfelves
to
be eletted Judges and chief
MagHlrnces, ro condemn chafe ' horn they had caufed to fin and rendred guilty
of
all thofe murther and bloudy crueltie which they had plotted and -contrived. ' –
But Heaven found them out at lafr and punifhed them according to their demerit,
8S
we !11all fee
hereafter.
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CH AP.
XXVII.
Of what I appened in
Poto~fi.
Egas de Guzman
~
drawn.
and
q.'iarte1
ed. Other outrages are
co11unitred
by
the Soul–
diers.
Many
b,-ave
111en
are put to death.
Cozco
anns
againfl
the
Rebels.
:-1-H fe
:rnd
many others
were
the horrible and execrable Villanies which
paf–
- l
fi
din
the
City
of
Plate:
and now we Chall
proceed
to what was committed
in
Potocji,
where mey robbed all.
the
Treafure belonging ro his
Majefiy,
which
\·
·~
fo
gre~t
and
Taft.
a fum
thJt
i~
amounted
to a million and a half of pieces of
E1ghr, whICh
all
vaml 1ed
to nothrng, and never ' ·as there one farthing of
it
re–
to~ered;
for it wa taken away after the death of
Herna.ndo
de
Alvarado,
hi
Maje..
fiy
s. Ace
rnptant-General, whom
Antonio de Luxan,
having made hirnfelf Chief
J
ufhce
of that
To
.vn and
par~s there~mo
belonging, had fentenced to die, and as
he
wtnt
to
Execm1on he pubhfhed his Crime to have been, that he had fided wich
the General
Pedro de I-Iinojofa,
with intention to raife all the Kingdom in arms
againfr
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