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Party; though in truth fear, rather than all his favours, induced him thereunto.
and with him
{ohn Gavilan
was fent with fourty other Souldiers, whore
Order~
and
Inll:ruetions were the fame with thofe of
Thoma1 Vazquez;
and that moreover
they
!hould tell the City, that though they
had
affured him already by their
Am~
ba{ladours,
that
they would joip and corre[pond with him in
all his
defigns yec
for
farther confirmation tnereof, he required them to
call a
Cour-t, to ratify 'their
former engagement, and to own and acknowledge
him
in that Sphere and Station
wherein he aeted. The truth
is,
H e-mandez
fent and employed chefe two Cap–
tains out of
a
defign to give reputation to his cau fe by the tpecious colour of uni–
on between him and two Cities, rather than from any expeCtation he
had
of
bringing them over to
his
fide and
party ;
for
he was not ignorant that they
had
already retralted their former a!furances., and repented of the Offers they former–
ly made him.
Befid~s
the Commiffions and Infhuctions given to thefe
Captain~
he delivered letters to them for particular perfon , who were men of power
and ·
intereff in their Councrey,
al
Co
Letters from
himfelf,
and from the Ciry of
co~c
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to the Corporations of thofe Cities , defiring them to join with them
in
this
caufe,
which was for the common good and welfare
of
the whole Empire:
He
alfo caufed the City of
Cozco
to write unto the City of
Plate
in the fame
mann~r
and to the fame effeet , as
to
the other Cities
:
and
Hernandez
himfelf
wrot~
Letter to many Planters in the
Charca;,
and
ro
the
Madhal
Alon(o de Alvarado
and
to his Wife
Donna A»na de Velafco,
the fubfiance and Contents of which was fo
ridiculous, as ferved onely
for
fport, and laughter
~
and were not thought worthy
of
an
Anfwer.
He
chat
hath the Curiofity to reade them, may find
diem
in the
Hifiory of
Diego
de
Hernandez,
Chap.
27.
CH AP. VII.
The Juflices
nominate
Officers for
the
War.
The
feveral
Pretenders
to the
Com771a12d of Captain
General.
Fran–
cifco Hernandez
leaves
Cozco,
and nzarches againfl
the Juff ices.
N
EWS
coming to
Los Reyes,
that
Francifto
Hernandez
increafed daily in
men;
reputation and aur;hority, the Jufiices thought it time
to
appoint their
Captains and Officers for the War.
Paulo de
Menefe.r
ivas named for Lieutenant
General, and
Don Antonio de
Rib~ra,
Diego de Mora, Melchior Verdugo,
a
Knight
of
the
habit of St.
rame.r
'
and
Don Pedro de
Cabrera
were made Captains of Horfe;
but the two
lafr
refufed this Preferment, as too mean for men who had fo _good
an
opinion of themfelves , as to believe they deferved to be made Generals of
Armies greater than this.
The
Captains of Foot were
Rodrigo Nhmo,
once con...
demned to the Gallies ;
Lewis de Ava/01,
·Diego Lopez
de Cenniga, L ope Martin
LH-
jitano, Antonio de Luxan,
and
Baltazar P'dafltuez,
who in the
lafi
rebellion of
Don
Seb~ftian
de
Cajlilla,
efcaped from the Jufiice of the Marfhal
Alonfa de Alvarado;
as hath been already mentioned.
Lope
de
G111tfo
V\
as made Standard-bearer Gene–
ral ; and the Command of Horfe refufed by
Melchior Yerdugo
was bellowed
up..
on
Pedro
de
Carate
;
And
Alonfa de Car
ate,
a Citizen of
Arequepa,
was
alfo
made Cap–
tain of Horfe.
Franci(co
de
PJ·nna
was
made Serjeant Major, and
NicholM
de
Ri6ertt
Junior, was made Captain of the Guards to the Jufiices, with Title of
Cap–
rain
of the Guard
to
the Royal Seal, which was, as
Palentino
faith, to difguife
the Prefumption
of
railing
a
Guard
for
themfelves. · But when they came to
make choice of a Captain General, a great Tumult and Sedition aro[e by three
P retenders, who were
all
men of Efiates and Intereft, and each abetted by a
c nfiderable Parry. The Perfons in nomination were,
Santillan,
one of his Ma–
jefl:y'!:
J
ufl:ices , who had
the
belt reputation of them all, and was allyed
ro
many of the
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ability who had gained the Empire) and who appeared in
£
vour
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of
,
c.