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VI.
J!.-oyal
Commentaries.
him
for
not fianding
firm co
his principles,
he refohred
to come and
claim a re–
ward
for
his Services
:
of which
the
Marfhal
having
intimation, he gave
it
our,
that he had a power in his Commiffion
to
gratifie
all
rhofe who had had a hand
in
the death of
Don Sebaftian,
and had been inllrurnental in fuppreffing Rebels:
and that there was a particular Claufe impowring him
to
confer the Efrate and
Indians
formerly belonging
to
Alonfo de Mendofa
upon
Bafco
de
Godine"',
and
[ohrJ
Ramon.
This rumour being publifhed abroad,
Alonfo
Vela~qucz. \~·as
difpatcheq
away with fame Orders and InfirucHons for
Potocji,
and with a particular Warrant
to
take and app1ehend
Bafco Godinez.;
though
it
was commonly given our, that
he carried a power to invefi
Godinez.
in
an Eflate and Lordfhip over
Jndians.
Thus
far
Diego Hernandez.
in the Chapter before mentioned.
Ba
Godine<:,,
being then at the City of
Plate,
received a Letter from a Kinf-
man of his that
Alon{o Yefaz,que<:,
was bringing the Order of the
J
u!Hces co confer
on him the Efiate of
Alonfa de Mendofa ;
at which
Godinez.
feerned much offended
and angry, that
it
was not the Efiate of the General
Pedro de
Hjnojofa,
which
he
had before allotted and appropriated to himfelf by his own power and arbitrary
pleafure:
of\~
bich, when he read the Letter, he greatly complained to thofe who
were then prefent, but they
mode~ated
his paffion a little, by telling him, that
t:h~re
were good beginnings, and that he
,,·as
in a fair \ ay
to
better his fortunes :
but he florrned and raged like a mad man, as did other Souldiers then with him,
who, entertaining an
over~
eening opinion of their own merits, pretended to the
befr,
and the moil: opulent Eil:ates in
all
Peru.
Soon after
Godinez.
had received this
feigned news in a Letter (which \\as never intended for him)
Alonfa
Vel~ue~
arrived at the City of
Plate,
and being accompanied with
Come
Friends of his, he
went direetly to the Lodging of
Bafco Godine:t
and faluted him
'with
the ufual
forms of ceremony and complement;
·co
which he returned a {urly kind of an
an[wer, and looked very fullen and melancholy, becaufe all
Peru
was not confer–
red upon hirrl for a reward of his deferts. But not to fuffer him to proceed far–
ther in fuch vain imaginations as thefe ;
Alonfo Velazquez
delivered him a Letter
fr
rn the Marfhal, with others, \\ hich were feigned
to
amufe him a while with
vain hopes ; but
w
hilO: he was attent in reading them,
Alonfo Vclaz,qitez
]aid hold
on his Anne, and faid,
Senior Godinez..,
you are my Prifoner : with \ hich he be–
ing
much furprifed, he asked him by
\:
hat
Warrant?
Velaz..que~
(as
Diego
Hernan-
'
dez
fays) made anfwer, that he charged him to go with him co a certain place,
where he would {hew him by \)hat authority: No, faid
Godinez,
let
thefe per–
fons prefent fee your Orders and Warrant, and afrerwards
V\
e ihall ref< lve to doe
V\rhat is requifite in the cafe. Then
Yelazquez,
with more cho
1
er and heat than
before, told him plainly, that he "ould not capitulate with him,
ut charged
him without farther difpute to go \Yith him, and ufing fome violence drew
him
into the Prifon ; and as he was going,
Godinez
defperately tore his Beard "'
ich
his
hand, and lifred his eyes
to
Heaven: which fome feeing comforted him, and ad–
vifed him
to
patience, in regard, that by this imprifonrnent, the
J
u!Hce of his
Caufe, and the Ggnal ervices he had done his Majefty '' ould more eminently
-appear. But
Godinez
replied onely '
i
h Oaths and Curie , and th11c the Devils
would now fetch him, wh
had referved him to that unhappy time.
In fhorr,
Velazquez
clapt him up into
lofe Prifon with Chains and Manacles, and com–
mitted him
to
the cufiody of a !hong Guard; and immediate1y wrote away
t6
the
Marfhal giving :idvice of
''hat
had paffed ; who fpeedily coming to
Potocji,
feifed
n many
s~:m1d :er
and Inhabitants, intending to bring them
to
condign
puni01ment : And in the firfl: place he made Procefs againll:
Martin
de Roble.r, Go–
mez. de
Solu
and
Martin
de
A/mend-nu,
and others, allowing them
co ~make
their le–
gal defence and bring their wimeffes, and fuch pro fs as vvere conducing to their
difcharge, and herein efpeci:i
lly he indu ged the Citizens, and tbofe who
had
Plantations in the
o
)t•·ey,
afford.inthem a large time
to
make their defence,
moll of which \ll.'ere faved by prolongations and delays, rather than acquitted by
the
Se~ten!e
of
J~fl:ice;
as will hereafrer appear. Thus far
Dieg6 Hernande<:,,
whd
th~re'
1t!1
~nds
tlus_Chapter.
In the concluGon of which, he feems
to
have re–
ceived his mformattoo from fome perfon prepo!fe{fed with a prejudice againft the
~entlemen
who had Ectates,
an~
were Lords of Vaifals in
Peru;
or perhaps he
lumfelf was fo: for he
lays
no cnme to the charge of rbofe againfl: whom the
Madhal
proceeded~
but rather excufes them, and fays, that the Rebels feifed on
Gome:::.. de Solis,
and
Mtirtin
d~
Almendnu;
and that
Martin
de Roh/es
efcaped from
.
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