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VI.
Rl!Yal
Commentarier.
fcandalous Speeches were vented againfi the 0overnrnent, that ic had been well
if Laws had been made
to
refirain the excefies and libercy
of
malicious and
viru-
lent
Tongues.
In
the month of
Of1ober
of the fame year (as
Diego Hernande<:.
faith)
Bafco Godi-
11ez.
was charged and arraigned of many heinous and crying offences, which are
fpecified in the Sentence pa.fled on him,
for
which he was condemned
ro
be
drawn
and quartered. And it is certain that the Marfhal was troubled
chat he
could not
meet with
Baltafar
Yel~que~
(who was gone
co
Lima)
for had he been found
he
would have incurred the
fame
punifhment that
Godine~
had done,
&c.
The de–
claration of
che
Crimes of
Bafco Godinez.
were contained
in
a
few
words;
prodal~
med by the Executioner;
which
were thefe;
Thu
man
having
Imm
a Traitour
to
God,
to
hu
King, and
hu
Friends,
u
fcntenced
to
be drawn and
quartered.
The which
faying
is fo full and pithy, that it contains as much as can be faid or wrote in ma–
ny
Chapters. And thus did the fevericy of Jullice pafs on the Offenders, until!
towards the end of
Novem6er
(as we have faid;) when news coming of a new Re–
bellion raifed
by
Francifco
Hernande~
Giron,
a fl:op was given to farther proceedings
againH: the refi: of the imprifoned Souldiers: which feemed
to
happen opportune–
ly, chat rhe fear of a fecond Rebellion might moderate and allay the feverity ex.;
ercifed again!l the firfi.
The
Indian1
of
Co~co
prognofiicated this Rebellion openly and loudly in the
Streets, as
I
heard and
faw
my felf: For the Eve before the Fefi:ival of the molt
Holy Sacrament, I being then a youth,
~
ent out
to
fee how the t\VO Market–
places of the City were adorned ; for at that time the Proceflion pafied through
no other Streets but chofe; though fince that time, as I am told, the perambula–
tion
is
double as far as before. And being then at the corner of the great Chapel
of our Lady of the
Merceds,
about an hour or two before day, . I faw a Comet
dart from the Eafr fide of the City
tm~
ards the Mountains of the
Antu,
fo
great
and dear .that it enlighmed all places round with more fplendour than a full Moon
at midnight.
Its motion was direltly dowm11v·ards, irs form was globular, and its
dimenfion as big as a large Tower; and coming near the ground,
it
divided into
feveral [parks and fireams of fire; and was accompanied with a Thunder
fo
low
and near as firuck many deaf with the clap, and ran from Eall: to Well:: which
when the
Indian1
heard and
faw,
they all cried out with one voice,
Auca, Auca,.
Auctt,
which fignifies in their Language, as much as to fay,
7jrant, TraitotJr, Rebel,·
and every thing that may be attributed to a violent and bloudy Trairour, as we
have before mentioned. This happened on the nineteenth of
{une
in the year
is
s
3.
when the Feafi: of our Lord was celebrated; and this prognofiication
\~
hich
the
Jndian.r
made, was accomplifhed on the thirteenth of
November
in the fame
year, when
FrancifCo
Hernandez. G;ron
began a Rebellion) which \l\'e {hall relate
ifl
the following Book.
The
End
of the Sixth Book,.
Royal