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Royal
Commentaries.
BooK
VII
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C H A P.
V.
Lett~rs
are written to the chief
Re~l,
and the
Governour is
hanifhed out of
Cozco.
P
,Alentino,
in
the twenty fifch Chapter of his Book,
coming
to touch
upon
·this
paffage, •
faith,
as
foHows :
About this time
Mchael
de
Yillafuerte
arrived at
Couo,
with credential Letters
direeted
to
Prancifco
Hernandez
from
Pedro Lew-Ude Cabrera,
who was then at
Co-–
tab~ba
with fame Souldiers and intimate Friends when the Infurreetion was firll:
made; and
wirh
them alfo were
Hernando GNiliada,
and
Diego
Mende~,
who were
engaged in the
Rebellion
of
Sebllflian
de
Caftilla:
the Letters were
co chis
effect:
That fince it was
not
the fortune of
Dcr11
Pedro
to have been the firll: in this Infur..
rettion,
but that
Francifco
Hernande<::.
had
got
the fiart of him, and preceded him
by four days time, he
d~firetl
him co. profecute his defign, and endeavour to ob–
tain
a general addrefs from the people, fupplicating him to take upon him the fole
adrninHhate of the whole
Kingdom~
That he for his part, had already fet up his
Standard in his name, and was marching cowards
Los
Reyes, ,
with intention ro
force the C:ourt of
J
ufiice to nominate him for Captain-General ; and that
fo
foon
as he was invefied in that charge, he w0uld then advife him
to
feife on the Judges
and fend them into
Spaf,n.
This Letter was feconded by another from
Don Pedro
to
Hernande~,
fent by the Son of
Cfome~
de Turdoya,
giving him
to
underfiand, that
he was certainly informed, that'
Gttrfilajfo de la Pega,
Antonio
~innones,
and
others
who were gone
to
Lo.r
Reye ,
had no intent
co
favour their Caufe;
for
though
they
defigned
to
joyn
with
Don Pedro
in the Rebellion,
yet
when they. found
tliat
he (that js
Hernandez.,)
bad anticipated the matter, and was the firft in the Plot,
they then fell off from farther profecution thereof; And
that
this was his defign
plainly appears ; for when he firft went from his Plantation, he caufed Mafs to
be
faid, which being ended, he made Oath upon the Altar, in hearing of the people,
that he
\~as
going
co
Lim11
with no other intent or purpofe rhan
to
feife on the
Judges and
to Ship
them
a
way
for
Spain.
But
Fr1tncifc{)
Hernande~,
knowing
Don
Pedro
to
be
a fubtile
a.nddouble-hearted man, confidered all thefe fiories ·co be
fi&ioos of his own, whereby the better
to
fec\lre himfelf, and without any op–
pofition
to
pafs over together with his Souldiers to· the other
party:
wherefore,
having taken away.
the
fiatfofJufiice from the Governour
Gil
Ramire~,
he com–
mitted
him to the cufiody of
{ohn de Piedrahita,
with orders
to
convey him with
a Guard ofMufqueriers out ofthe
City
of
Co~co,
and condutt him
twenty
leagues
on his
way
co·wards
Lo1
Reyu,
~
hich was accordingly
done, without taking
any
thing from him : Moreover Infiruetions
~ere
given to
Piedrahita
to
find out
Don
Pedro
and tell him, that he fhould not need
to
go
to
Lima,
bot rather to doe
him the favour
to
come to
Co~co
:
which if
Don
Pedro
!hould refufe
to
doe, he
then required him to
feife on
him
and bring him
thither
in fafe
cuftody :
but
Don
Pedro
being
too far advanced before,
Piedrahita
could
not overtake him,
and
there–
fore remrned back
t0
Co~co
without effett,
&c.
Thus far that Aurhour.
But becaufe thofe
m~tters
are not fet down methodically as they paifed, we
fhall defcribe them more orderly, and iliew every paifage, as
it
fucceeded, and
b~
'What
way
Piedrahita
guided the Governour: now as
to
Don
Pedro
de
Cabrera,
his circumfiances were fuch as nor co fiand in need of any correfpondence "'ith
Francifcq
Hernande~,
nor did he ever intend or defign any fuch thing, being a per–
fon who both in Mind and Body was
unfit.
for War ; for he was ne moll: corpu–
lent
man
chat
ever
I
faw;
and \\'ith
fuch
a
Belly,
that, as I remember
two
years
after rhe Bartel of
Sacfahuana,
a Tailour, , who was a
Negroe,
and a Slave to my
Father;· but
a
very
good Workman, made a
D oublet
for
him
f
Cordovan wirh
a
Gold
Fringe, which being
almot1:
fini!hed, three ot er knavifh
Boys
like
my
felf
-about ten
or
eteven
years old, came into the
Chamber
where the
Tailour
was at
work, and finding
this Doublet
on
the
Shop-board, bordered
with
a Silk Ga-
1oon, we looked on
it,
and feeing
it
fo
wide,
we
a11 covered our felves within
ir, ·
and
ftill
there was room for another of our fize and bignefs. And
having
fo
greac
a BeJiy