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ed at the door and faid, that
Francifco
Hernande~
Giron
was there,
Don Baltafar de
Ca.ftillia
being near the Entry ; Ob, Sir,
fa
id he, how comes it to pafs chat you are
fo
late to.honour us with your Company; and immediately ordered tbe door to
b€
opened, whereupon
Franci.fco Hernandez..
rufhed
in
with
his
S ord drawn in
his
right-hand and
a
Buckler in
his
left, and
a
Companion on each fide
with
Parci~
fans in their hands.
The Guefis fitting at Supper affrighted
w
irh
this
appearance arofe
frnm
the
Table in great Confufion:
then
faid
Hernande~,
Gentlemen, be not
afraid nor
fiir, for we are
all
engaged in this Plot. The Governour, without hearing
far–
ther entered in at a door on the left-hand, and went in at the apartment where
the women remained : in another corner of the Hall there was another door lea–
ding
to
the Kitchin and
to
the other Offices of the Houfe: by thefe two doors
all
the eople paffecd who were in die Entries: but thofe who were near the great
door of the_ Hall were in .mofi danger? not knowing which way t? efcape.
{ohn
A lon[o Palommo
was feared
1uft
over agamfl the door of the
Hall,
wtth
his
back
co–
\\ ards
it ;
and being knm
·n
to
Diego de Alvarado
the Lawyer, and chofe who were
with l1im , they gave him five wounds ; for
he,
and his kinfman
Geronimo Cofli!Ha
were fet down and defiined
to
be murthered ; for having oppofed
Franci.fco Her–
nandez.,
in
a
lace mutiny, which
be
had caufed, as before related.
{ohn
AJonfo
P11lrrmino
dyed the next day of
his
wounds in the Houfe of
L oayfa,
not being able
to
goe
forth
to
be .cured elfewhere.
.
They
alfo
killed
[ohn de Mor11le.r,
a
rich Merchant, and
a
very honefi man, as
lie
was at the Wedding-fupper, and happened
to
be amongfi the other Citizens; for
he, without confidering
what
he did, intended
to
pm
out the Candles
which
v.
ere on the Table, that
in
cne dark their efcape might
be
the more eafte; and
there
~ irh
drawing away
the
Table-cloth, ten of the eleven Candles fell ·Qown,
and were all extinguifhed ; but one remaining
frill
lighted ; OQe of the Compa–
nion of
Hernande~
thrufi his Partifan in at his memh, and cut him therewith from
one Ear unto the other; faying,
Tra)'tor , Wouldft
tho11
have mall to
be
killed here ?
Then another Souldier gave him
a
Thrufi through de lefi Pap, with
~
hich he
immediJtely fell down dead, fo that the unhappy man had no time to
q
e
his
gol–
den cop to his Girdle , as fome have rnalitiouily ''vritten concerning him. The
next day I
fa'
his Body in the condition here related, for which and the refi of
~he
Tragedy, thofe who were ACtours therein did much applaud
them
lves.
My
Father, and
D iego de
Los R ios
and
Vafco
de Guevara,
and two och
r Gentle–
men, who were Brothers and Kinfmen
of
his,
calied
Efculant cs
and
Rodrigo de Leon,
Brother of
Pero Lopez..
de
Caf tt1!a,
and other Citizens and Souldiers, in all to the
number of thirty fix, paffed out at the fame door with the ' o ernour, and I al–
fo amongft the refi, not by the apartment of the Women, but took to the
right–
hand
>
to
find
a
paffage out by the yards
of
ihe Houfe, and here meeting
a
Ladder,
they climbed up
to
the roof of the Houfe ; intending to paf5 ov r into the Houfe
,
of
John
de Figueroa,
which was the next hou[e
to
them, and onely a fingle Wall
between ; from \ hence there
\X.
as
a door opening co another Street; my Father
finding
chat
there \'\as a Pafiage thac way, called to the Company to fiay untill
he could goe and call the Governour, by whofe means he hoped to remedy the
farther progre£S of this Evil : And going
to
the place, where
the
Governour
was,
be called
co
him, and told him,. that there was
a
paffage chat way to efcape,
and
that there were
p~ople
to foccour and defend him
:
and that, if he pleafed
to
goe
with them into the Market-place, and cau[e the
Bell
to
be
nm~
our, and
an A-
larm founded,
he
did not doubt, but that the
Aflaffmate
and Rebels would
im–
mediately fly away, and
{hift for
themfelves: but che Governour not receiving
this counfel, returned no other Anfwer, than that he defired him to fuffer
him
to
remain there.
My
Father returning
to
his Companions found
them
all climbed
up
to
the top of the roof, leading to the Houfe of
{ohn de
Fig11eroa :
wherefore
he
defired them once more to fray, and expetl: him, untill he
c
uld g e,
and
per-
fuade the Govern ur out · of his place
f
concealment, where going a fecond
time, he ufed
all
the Arguments and Reaf<
n in
the
W
rld t
indu
e
him there-
unto,
but
\\as nor able to prevail, becaufe the Governour
f;
nlied ,
chat they
were all
in
the Plot, as
Francifco
Hernandez..
declar d at his firfi entrance into
the
Hall.
G
arfi!djfo
,
my
Father , being out of all hopes t prevail , w nt hi
\Vay,
and
at
the Foor of the Ladder loft one of his
fl.i
E
er which he ha put on over hi
om