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VII.
Royal
Commentaries.
people,
v~
ho were greatly troubled
aftd
fcandalized to fee fuch
daily
effuGons of
bloud and {hughters amongCl: their friends and acquaintance: Hereupon fuch as
were condemned had their reprieves granted, and
by
way of punHhrnenc were
to
ferve his
Majefiy at
their own coft and charges: amongfl: thefe was a certain Soul–
dier called
--de Bilbao,
whom a friend of
his
feein~
at liberty, congratulated \Vith
him for the fafety of his life and freedom, telling
him
that
he
\\
1
as
obliged
to
return
thanks to Almighty God
for
this great deliverance: to
which the
Souldier made
anfwer, and faid, chat he rendred thanks to his Divine Nlajefty,
and
to
St.
Peter,
and to St.
Paul,
and to St.
Francifco Hernandez:. Giron,
by whofe merits and means he
had been faved, and that he could not doe
lefs
in acknowledgment thereof than
td
go and ferve. him,
t~e
which he accordingly did, as_ we !hall fee
her~afrer.
Beudes this Sould1er above forty more were delivered
.out
of pr1fon mofl: of
which
would have been feorenced
to
dye, and others at
leaft
condemned
to
row
in the Gallies,
which
was the
bell:
they could expect; but thofe Citizens and
Souldiers who were not
fo
deeply concerned as others, the
Marfhal
was pleafed
co fee
at Liberty without any farther procefs,
but
rhefe prifoners refufed to accept
thereof, but to be brought
to
their Trya], as
Palentino
faith, Chapter the fortieth,
in thefe
word .
Some of the Prifoners underfianding rhat they were to be
fee
at liberty without
rryal, refufed
to
accept thereof without a fentence in their caufe, beca1:1fe they be–
came liable thereby to be taken up again and punHbed when the Judges or their
Enemies were defirous
to
accufe them: wherefore,, to make difpatch in this mat–
ter, he fined
Gomez., de Solu
in five hundred pieces ofEighr,
to
be paid as Fees
to
-
his Keeper and Gaards
:
Martin
de
Almendras
had the like Fine, as alfo
M!lrtin
de
Roble.r;
others were condemned in two hundred, a hundred, fifty and twenty pie–
ces of Eight, proporriooing the Fine according co the ability
of
the perfon, rather
than to the degree and quality of his Crime. Thus
far
Diego Hernandez.,.
Moreover the Madhal gave order
to
provide Arms; and
to
make Pikes
iri
thofe Provinces, \vhere wood was plenty , and
to
make Powder in cafe neceffity
lhould require. Some few days afterwards came two Commands from the
J
ulli–
ces, the one fufpending the execution of the Decrees formerly made
for
freeing
the
Indian1
from their perfonal Cervices, which
\~as
to la!l: for the fpace of
two
years, and
to
take off many other things which caufed great Commotions and Dif–
turbances amongfl: the Inhabitants and Souldiers of that Empire, and
had
been
(as
the Governours well knew )
the
fpriog
and original of chofe rebellions ,
mutinies and faet:ions which raged
in
the minds
of
the people, the
other
Com–
mand was a Cornmiffion confiituting the Mar{hal Captain General of the For–
ces
raifed againft
Francifco Hernandez., ,
and with an unlimited power -to expend
his Maiefiy's Treafure in this Warl as far as occafion fhould require, and to bor–
row or take up money, in cafe the Exchequer fhould
fail.
By
virtue hereof the
MarOul
appointed Captains both of Borfe and Foot, befides other Officers whom .
we (hall name hereafter. He defigned to make
Gome~
de Alvarado
his Lieutenanr
General, but he refufed it, becaufe another Gentleman\\ ho was brother
to
the
Mar01al's Wife, pretended thereunto, called
Don Martin
de Avendanno,
for whom
the Wife made great inftance ; and as it were compelled her Husband, much
againft
his
own inclinations, to confer it upon him ; and though he
\)\'as
a
young
man,
and of little or no experience , he condefcended thereunto rather than
ro
raife
War in his own Family. He
alfo
difpatched Warrants and Orders t@
the
CHracas
to gather vd1at provifions they were able , and to appoint eight or nine
thoufand
Jndian1
to
carry the baggage of the Army. He fent alfo into feveral
parts
to raife Men , Horfe and Arms, and to take up
all
the Slaves they could
find. And
here\~
e will leave them in thefe Preparations to fee what becomes of
Francifeo Hernandez..,
and
v.
hat he
is
aetiog, and carry on the
Dnfirtefs
of both
Par–
ties, as the method of Hifiory requires. Whilfl: thefe things were
in
agitation
in
the City of
Lo.r Reyes
and
Potocfl,
Hernande:t
was not negligent of what concer–
ned his interefl: , but ordered
Thomas
Va~quez.,
with
a
fquadron of about
fifty
Souldiers well armed to march to the City of
Arequepa
,
and in his name to take
the poffeffion thereof, and to treat peaceably with the Citizens ,
letting
them
knO\v
l that the Corporation
of
Co:tco
had
made choice of him
to
be Captain
General and chief Jufiiciary of all the Kingdom.
In like manner he fent
Fran-ci-
feo Nunnez:.,
a Citizen of
Cof:;co,
to
H1t4manca,
whom he
l1ad
enticed by fair and
· flattering promifes and
wit:b
the Command of a Troop of
Horfe,
to be of his
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