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them in
his
Shirt.
And yet afcer this, he fays, that their lives were rather faved
by
prolongations and delays, than acquitted by the courfe of
J
ufiice ;
which
iliews
him
gulley of an apparent partiality, as ' e
fhall
obferve in
many paffiges
for the
fu
cure.
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CH AP.
XXIX.
The Judge puts rnany of the Rebels to death in the City of
P
ac ,
and in
the Village
of
Potocfi ;
others
were
whip–
ped
and
fent
to the
Ga/lies :
the
lik_e Jufiice he
doth
in
the
City
of
Plate.
The Sentence an,{ Execution
of
Ba–
f
co de
Godinez.
T
HE
Marf11al began now
to
exercife his power in
pun·
01ment of the
Rebels
in the City of
Peace1
wherehe had eretled
a
Court of Jufiice:
all
the Pri–
foners fent
him
by
Pedro de
Enci.fotaken
in
the great Lake, and other parts, he
condemned ; fome of che
m werehanged, others beheaded, fome were whipped,
and others fen(
to
the Gallie , fo chat all of chem received their jufl: reward.. From
the City
of
Petree,
the
Marfhal
travelled to
Potocfi,
\
here
he
found many Prifoners
of thofe Bra oes and Heltors that belonged
to
EgM
de
Gu~mnn
and
Don Se6afti1U1
de Caftilla ;
on whom he executed
the
fame }ufHce as on the
former; as
namely,
fome were hanged, and others beheaded, whipped and fenc to the Gallies.
He
apprehended tbe
perfon
of
Hernan Pere:(; de
Pera~ua, \~:ho
\
as Commiifary-Gene–
ral, and accufed for holding a correfpondence (as we have faid before) with
Do1t
Sebaftian,
to
whom he wrore a Letter to fend n.venty Mufquetiers to take him,
that he might not feem to forrender hirnfelf; but
in
regard he "'as a Knight of
the Habit of St.
[ohn
or a Knight of
Malta;
they confifcated the Plantation
and
Indian1
which he po!feffed in the City of
Plate,
and fent
his
Perfon under a
fecure
Guard
to
the Mafl:er of
Mah1t.
Thefe Seffions being ended at
Potocft,
the
Mar–
ilial went to the City of
Plate,
where
Bafeo Godine;(::,
remained a Prifoner, wich fe–
veral as bra e ouldiers and men of note as any were within thofe Provinces : on
all
which they executed the Sentence of the Law, as before on thofe
in
Potocji
and in the City of
Plate;
but very few were condemned to the Gallies, by
reafoo
that
it
was troublefome and delatory
to
fend chem into
Spa;n;
and befide
in
their
way thither they might find means
to
make their efcape; as rhofe had done
who
'"·ere committed to the charge of
Rodrigo Ninno;
for
of all his number,
lvhich
were eighty fix, there was but one that arrived in
SeviHe.
e
do not undertake
here particularly to
fet
down the precife number of thofe who
V\
ere puc to deach
and whipped ; being
fo
many
that
an exaC1: number could not be kept of them,
onely
a
calculate
may
be made of them; from che latter end of
{une, Anno
15'>3.,
to
the end of
November
of the fame year, when a new Infurrecti n \\as begun by
Francifco
Hermmdez..
Giron,
e ery day
\"K.
1
as
a
day of Affife, whereon four, five, or
fix a
day
were condemned, and the next day they were executed. The which
expedition of jufl:ice could not be avoided, confidering how full the Prifons were,
and ho v nece!fary a
aol-delivery was for fecuriry of the Countrey ; \ hich was
put
into that amazement and confufion by the boldnefs and infolence of
the.Re–
bels, that no man remained fecure either of his Lifc .
or
E(l:ate. Howfoe
ver themalicious and unthinking people fiyled the Judge with the terms of cruel and im–
placable, and of another
1Vero,
\~ho
could with
fo
little remorfe and ompaffion
condemn four or five a day unto death, and thofe of rhe moll: principal ouldiers,
and fuc::h
as perhaps. had been
icher deceived or enforced
to
a com Hance; and
yet when he arofe from the Bench, and was returning
to
his own Houfe, he
could enrnrrain light and indifferent difcourfi s laughing and jefiing with rhe At–
torney-General, as if cho[e who ' ere condemned co die were Capon or. Turkies
ntred in a Bill of Fare
tG
be fer ed up at his Table. And fuch other Libels and
fcanda-