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VII.
R.oyal Commentaries.
~ion,
that all
ple, upon, pain of death, iliould come in to their
patty;
apd
cha~
Lights were fet
up in
che Streets , and Guards placed ; to prevent the efcap€ of
_any
perfon
whatfoever.
I
fay
notwithftandi_ng,
that
nothing paffed
~ore
that
_night than what
1s
before
rela~ed;
for, I bemg
the.n
a
boy, had
the
Liberty.
to
run~bout,
and was an
eye-w1tn~fs
of all that
paired~
for thefe people bemg
.fo
few in number, could neither fet up Lights, nor appoint Watches and Guards
in
all
parts of the Cicy, which
was
above
a
League in Compafs. The next day
they went to the Governour's Lodgings,
where
they examined his Clofet and
Papers ; amongfi which ( as they report) were found above eighceeJ.1 feveral
Orders of the
J
ufiices, all tending to rhe
damag~
and
prejudice of the Citizens ;
namely, chat they a1ould free and acquit the
Indians
of
all
perfonal Services, char
none of them fhould be compelled co labour
in
the Mines, nor to receive -or quar–
ter
Souldiers, nor
to
maintain
chem either fecretly or
in
publick,
all
which were
- Inventions
co
raife Mutinies,
~nd
incite the Souldiery to join
with
them
q-"he third day after this Rebellion
Hernande2;..
was employed in making
Vifics
ro the-principal Citizens at their own homes: and amongfi the refi, coming to
my Father's Houfe, where
I,
and my Mother-in-law were onely prefent, he told
us, amongft: ocher things; that what he had done, was for the publick good and
.well-
fare of all the Souldiers, Citizens and Planters, of the whole Empire. That
the
fopreme
Charge
ancl
Super-iotendency of all rhefe matters he referved not
for
himfelf, but
m
bellow
it
on fome
orher
who beft deferved
it :
And
he defired
my
Mother
co
prevail wich my Father not longer to conceal himfelf, bat to meet
him and che reft of his Affociates in the Market-place, co confult and order mat–
ters at a rime when the
difficult9
of affairs required his affifience.
The
l"ke
bifcourfes
he
ufed in other Houfes where he made his Vifits, belie–
ving chat c
ofi
·ho did not appear had abfcoQded themfelves, not imagining that
they were
fi
d
Lo> Reyes:
but
when my Mother-in-law affured him, that fince
the Wedd1
g-
ighr,
fhe had not feen
my
Father, nor had he emred
into
his Houfe;
which my otl .
r
affirming with
all
the Oaths and Affeverations fhe could make,,
fhe
defrred
him
in cafe he believed her not , to make fearch in
all
the parts
and
corners of the Houfe; he then was convinced, and faid, that he wondered
at
it;
and
fo
cutting off
all
farther difcourfe, he
took
his leave, and went to vific other
Houfes
~
where he found the fame verified , as
in
chis j>lace. -For the truth is ,
they did not
all
fly
away the fame night, but four or five nights after,
as
they
found
convenient ;
for
having
no Guards
in
the Streers, nor at the
Gates~
every
one efcaped without much difficulty.
About eight days after this Rebellion was begun , one
Bernardino
de
Robles,
a
botd
and ]ude fellow informed
Her.nande~
Giron,
that
Baltafar de Ca/lillia
and
[ohn de
Carcere.r
the Accountant were preparing to
make
their
Efcape
and carry
with
them
divers others, and
chat all their
wrought Plate and other moveables
they
had fecured
in
a Monall:ery: which
fo
foon as
Hernandez
underfiood, he prefently called for
.his
L1t"!_Jer Diego
de
Alvar1-1do,
and ordered him to examine the matter, and
punifh
tbe
Oftenders according to their demerit. The Lawyer required no great
Forma~
liry in the Procefs or of Wimeffes to give their Teftirnonies; for he owed an old
grndge to
Balta(ar
de
CaftiOia
,
on the f£ore of a quarrel which about two months
before happened between them in the chief Market- place of
the
City,
in
which
it
was the fortune of both of them to be wounded ;
which
the Lawyer not efiee–
miog a fufficient fatisfad:ion; was angry chat he had not
killed
him ; for, as we
have
faid ,
he prefumed more on
his
Weapon than on
his
Learning
:
and now ;
having an
opportunity to vent his Anger
with
Colour of Authority, he exercifed
his Commiffion with all Severity upon innocent men, who, as report goes,
were
not
guilty of the
leafi
offence :
for the
fame night that
he
received his
W
arranr;f
he
went direttly to the Houfes of thofe
who
were accufed ; and allotted them.a
fhort time, not fufficient to
Qlak~
their Confoffion, and then delivered chem
in–
to
f
he
hands of
the
Hang-man
'f
ohn
Enrique~
co be ftrangled ; who was the fame
E~ecll~ioner
who had beheaded
Gonfalo Pifarro
and hanged and quarcered
his
Captams
and Lieutenant General. The next day after this Rebellion of
Hernan–
de-:l:;
had
broken out,
this
Bloudy
Ro~e
!hewed himfelf openly
in
the Market--:
plac-<e
_,
with bundles of Halters about him , and
all
the Infiruments of death and
torment ; p_refuming that there would now be work for him and employment
for
a
81'1-ll·
bf
his Office : he alfo drew out his brought Sword
to
cut offHeads ; but
~e
payed afterwards
'for
this prefumption,
as we £hall find
by
the fequel
:
How-
foever