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againft his Majefiy. And now \ e mufi underfiand, that a certain Friend of
An–
tonio
de
Luxan,
called
(ohn Gonfr,de1,
wrote a Letter to him gi iog him advice of
the death of
D on Sebaftian,
of the imprifonrnent of
Don Garcia
and of the depar–
ture of
{
ohn Ramon
and others,
ith intent to join \.Vith tbe 1ar!hal
Alonfo de Alv1t–
rado.
This Letrer
a fem by
a
{anacuna
(\
hich
fignifies
an
Indian
Domefiick
Servant educated in a Family) who are commonly the bell: Spies
in
the world.
and the Letter was made up in the foal of
his
Shoe,
to
keep it from being
inter~
cepted by the Guards, \:\ hich were placed on the way vYhere he was co pafs.
herein he was counfelled immediately to kill
E,g&
de
Gu~man,
for that therewith
all the Plots of thofe \ ho '":ere concerned in the death of
Don Sebaftian
would be
entirely overthro n:
fo
foon as
Ar.Jtonio
de
Luxan
(
ho had
made
himfe1f
ch
·er
J
ufl:ice) had received this Letter, he imm diately cau[ed the Drum to beat, for
affembling the Souldiery
ifl
the Market-pla e, where
E1.asde
Gm: ..
man
coming
amongfl: the refi, demanded the reafon of that convent
ion.Antonio
de
Luxan,
to
make trial \ hether rhi Letter were rrue or feigned, and alfo to create a
confidence
of
Eg.u
de
Guzman
in him as hi Friend, he publickly pr duced the Letter in vie\.v
fall thofe then
pref
nt ;
and asked, whether that were the hand and
firm
of
Joln Gonpt!es,
and \ hen
it
was faid, that it \\'as very like
Goniales's
hand,
and
that
p;obab
y
it was his and no others,
EgM
de
Guzman
changed his countenance,
which
il
e ved the in\lrard trouble and
app1
ehenfion of his mind. Upon this cer- _
tification and a!furance of the death of
Don
Sebaflian
rhofe who had before an in–
c:ention
tO
join
'~
ith
I:,g.u
de
Guzman
changed their minds, and declared themfelves
, ervants to his Majefiy, which was the deGgn of
Amonio de L11xan
in publifhing
the Letter;
and
alfo to make the 6uldiers
his
infl:ruments in killing
EgM
de
G~man,
as that paper advi[ed: upon reading whereof, thofe prefent looked one upon
-
the other, and
\:
ithout [peaking one word they underll:ood each others meaning:
fo
that
Antonio
de
Luxan
and his party adventured ro
lzy
hands upon
EgtM
de Guvnan
notwithilandiog he had many that fided with him, and
fee
Gome~
de
SoliJ,
and
Martin
de
AlmendrtU
at liberty, and thofe very Chains and Irons with which they
had been
manacled,
they put upon
EgM
de
Gtt~man,
and
fi
ipped off bis Coat of
Mail,. and gave it
tO
Gome~
de
Solu:
and within the fpace of fix hours
EgtU de
G1t~man
(non
ithfianding all his courage and bravery)
\~as
dra"
n and quartered>
together \ irh another Companion of his called
Diego
de
r
er_gara.
This effi
ct
had
rohn Gonfale/s
Letter in
Potocfi:
and at the fame time the Inha..
bitant
of.the City of
Plate,
of
whi h
the principal
perfons
were
Befco
Godine~,
Baltafar
P'ela~que~
and
Gome~
Hernandez
the Lawyei·, having
confulted
with others
of the fame City, they agreed all
to
march
to
Potocji
in a pofl:ure ofWar againll:
EgM
de
Guzman,
not knowing
"S)
et \
hat had been the fate of chat poor Gentle–
man.
B afco Godinez\\
ent General and Judge-Advocate of the Army, which
they
{( called, though
it
fcarce confified of an hundred men, and looked more like a
training of Boys, and a mock-fhow rather th:m an Army ; for ro
fo
few men they
had
t
vo Captains of Foot, and one of Horfe, with a Lieutenant-General: and
having marched
about
t\'
o leagues they received intelligence that
EgM
de
Gnzman
was
kUled,
and the Town reduced to the fervice of the King:
upon
which
ic
\\'a agreed, that
Bafco
Godinez
fhould return again
t
the
icy
of
Plate,
and that
Bnltafa:r
Velazquez..
and
Gomez.,
Hernande~,
vv
ith
fifty
felett ouldiers,
{hould
pro–
ceed
fon~ard
to
Potocfi,
and farther in
purfoit
of
Gtthriel de Pernia,
whom (as "e
have
faid)
EgM
de
Gu~man
had fent
wich
,fifty
five ouldiers
to
rhe City of
Peace,
t1
.ere
to
kill the Madbal
Alon/o
de
Alvarado.
But
Gabriel
de
Pernia,
having
\Vith
his
peoµle
travelled feveral league , received the
ne\~:s
that
[ohn
R11mon
had dif–
armed
Don Garcia:
upon which he
dedared
for
t~e
Marfhal, and fent him word
by
Ordonno de Valencia
that he was coming
to
ferve him
7
bm
he
had not marched
many leagues farther before his own Souldiers feifed upon him, and declared
fo~
Don Sehaftian,
and with their Colours
flying
returned back again, leaving
Pernia
with three other Companion ro folio\\< rh·eir own
imagination , \
ho accordingly
joined
themfelves
v::it
the
Mar01a '
party
:
but the
Souldiers
r turned back
with–
ouc Captain or Leader, or
.unfel
icher
f
them{( lves or others, and travelled
umill they received news of the death of
Don Sehaftian;
and then they proceeded
as
Palentino
writes
Chapter
z
1,
in thefe \.Vords
:
They pretended that the EnGgn
oi- Colours they cartied
ere difplayed in the name
and
for the {ervice of his Ma–
jefry,
fo
that their Banner changed like the Weather-cock, which
mr~s
to
the
part where the wind blows
firongeft; and fuch was the loyalty of this peop e
wl-:o