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Royal
Commentaries.
,Booit
VI.
CH AP.
XX
VIII.
The Royal Court of Juflice confiitutes the Mar./bal
Alonfo
de Alvarado
to
fit
Judge on the Trial of the
Rebels~
Decrees and Orders
were i/fued out
hy
the
Judge, and
others
by
the Souldiers.
The Imprifonnient of
Bafco Go–
dinez,
and of other Souldiers,
and Men
of Eftates.
· THE
days of joy and fefiival
being
pall
in
the City of
Los Reyes
for the death
of
Don SebafNan de CaftiUia,
and the
defeat
and defiruetion of
the
Rebels, in
which
Or~no
de
Yalenda
(whom
Dugo
Hern1mdez
ofcen mentions
in
his
Hiftory)
had proved a principal Infuament, though he had aeted a double part, and been·
concerned on both fides. Howfoever his good fortune guiding him co bring the
firft news of
the
death of
Don S6baftian;
the Judges in reward
thereof
bellowed
upoa him a divifion of fome Lands
w
ich
vafialage of
Indians
in the City of
c~co,
to
the value of
five
0r fix rhoufdnd pieces of Eight of yearly Revenue,
where
I
left
him in
the
enjoymmt of
the
fame when I came for
Spain.
But
others
fa.iled
in that defign, and gained a contrary reward, being accufed
and
endill:ed
before a
High Court of Juftice, of
which
the
Marfhal
A!onfo
de
Alva–
rddo
was conftituted Lord Chancellour
by
Commiffion from the
Lords ,
Jufiices;
for that he being known
to
he an upright and a fevere perfon, was
efieemed
a proper
lnfuument to poniili
thofe
many
oncrages,
murthers and violences
which
had
been
committed aga.intl: God, and contrary to
die
pea-ce and
quietneLS
of our
Sovereign
Lord
Charles
the Fifth Emperour
and
King
of
Spain.
In like manner for Trial of
Offenders in
the
Charca;;, {ohn FernanderG
the King,s Attorney General was
ordai·
ned, and
app0inte~
to
proceed ag_ainft and judge
chofe
Delinquents. Moreover
another
Commiffioni was
privately
foaled,
whereby
Alonfa de Alvarado
was
ordai·
oed chiefi Go etnour and
Juftkiary
of all thofe Provinces, and Capcain
General
ef
all the Fmces,
wi
h full
powett
o raifc SoukHers, and co pay them, and
all
ne·
eeffittJ ExpenG:es of
the
War
out of the Royal Treafury. Thefe Commiffions
were
f~nt
to
Alvarado
in the City of
Peace,
by
virtue of which he immediately
applied
lnimfelf
to the trial and punHhment of the Rebels
:
and in order thereun–
ro he difpatched
feveral
perfons of entire confidence .and integrity, into divers
pares
to
feife and apprehend fuch as had been guilty, and were fled to avoid the
courfe of Jufiice into private corners, and concealments amongfi the
IndianI.
One
of thofe employed upon
this
meffage was called
{ohn de
Hm110,
who purfued
chem
fo hard, as to fearch for them
with
Canoe1,
or
Indian
Boats , in certain little Iflands
~ithio
the Lake
of
Titicaca,
and
to hunt
chem
amongfl:
the
Ofiers
and Rulhes
which
grew
by the
:Banks
of thofe
!fl.ands,
and having taken above twenty of the
moft
malignant
and culpable
amongfi: them,
he delivered
them into the
hands of
Pedro
Encifo
thm
Govemour in
Chucuytu:
who having
firfl:
examined them, and
~aken
their Confeff10ns, he fent them with a
fafe
Guard
to
the Marlhal.
le
be·
ing
by
this time macle known over all the
Charca1
and
Potac(i,
that the Marihal
was by Commialon-confiicuted Judge of rhofe Provinces, divers Souldiers, who
were confcious of their own gailt, advifed
Befco
Godine~
(whofe
crimes
they be..
lieved were
too
OJack
to
admit of Pardon) to be wary and cautious
of
his own
pctrfoa~
and
t0
iraife Souldittrs ro relifi rhe Marilial ; the which (as
Diego Hernan–
~
G..ys,
Chaprer the twenty fecond) they reprefented to him, as a matter very
eaGe to be
effecr€d ;
and
that
he lhould caule
it
to
be publi01ed abroad, that rhe
Marilial, and
Lorenf o-
de
Aldana,
and
Gomez
de
Alvarado
intended co raife
Arms
1
and in an arbitrary manner
co
tyrannize over rhe Coumrey
:
which being once
fixed in the
min~
of
the
people, he might have a very laudable pretence
to
kill
them all ;
hidi-
being· done, there-- could be none ro oppofe or confrom him.
Howfo~ver
B11fco
Godinez
was o anorher
opinion ;
for, depending much on rhe
fervice he had done his Majefi:y
in
killing
Dun
S#bttfti11.,n
de
Ceflillia,
and upon the
enmity whiah
was
between him and
lohn
Rnm0f1
1
who-
accufed
and
complained
of
him,