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Royal
C1mmentaries.
Boo~
VI[.
And though he had above four hundred
men
\7..irh him, ''ell clothed, armed and
mounted; yet
it
troubled
him
to
obferve, that
he was
not backed and feconded
by
the concurrence and
auchority
of che feveral
Cities,~
Tm ns
and
Village., for
whofe
interefi,
fafecy
and honour, he pretended
to
have i.aifed chat War ·
But b€fore
he
refolved
on his
march
ro
Lo.r
Reyes
,
he was
£onGdering with
himfelf, "'
hether
it
were not
better
to proceed
firft
againfi the
MarfhaJ,
whofe party he
looked upon co
be \\'eakell and
ill
affetted to him,
by
rea.fon
of the great rigour, cruelty and
feve..
riry
he had
laliely
ex~fed
' to the
great fcandal and
di(p eafure
of
all
fides
and
parties,
whom he
had in
fame
way
or other ciifobhged
by
the deach
of
their
friends
kindred
or
relations. Upon
which ground
many per ons, 5kilfull boch
in
the
af–
fairs
of War,
and
the circumfiances of thofe
time ,
\Yere
of
opinion,
that
in cafe
Hernandez..
had in the firfi place ateached the Maril1al ,
it
had fucceeded berter for
him, in regard
the
befr Governour
in
the W orld
cannot
rely
on
a difcomented
people th which
Palentino
confirms,
Chap.
60.
in thefe words.
le
was
the mis.(ortuoe of
Hernande<:,,
that he did not proceed firfi
to
Potocft
rather
rhan
to
L ima ;
for ·
cett~
he benr
his
courre
againfi
the
Mar0.1al,
he
had in
all probability"fubjeded thofe Provinces, and conferved his men,
wh0 \'
ouid ne.
ver have gon
over
to one fo
generally
hated
and abhorred
by
rh~rn,
as
was
th«
Mar&al; hcugh they
did
revolc afterwards
wh~n
they came ro
Lim/JI,.
Nor was
it
believed,. that the Marilial's men
wm1ld
have
refilled
or
fought, nor indeed \'\ere
they provided for
it,
becaufe
nhe Mar01al had
fo
many
Enemies abouc
him,
thaz
all
preparations
for War
moved fiowly. Thus
far this Aurhour.
But God, who governs
all
things, would not permit
Hernande.l;
to
rake that
· / courfe,
which was bell: for him, for
then
the evils and
miferies
he would have
brought upon the people had been irreparable: but being infatuated he
refolved
on a
March
co
Lima,
as
Hillory relates, leaving
Alvarado
the
Lawyer his
Lieute–
nant General in the City, and
ro
bring up the
remainder
of
the forces, becaufe
the1
could not
all go
ouc togerher
:
but
before
H!ernande:t
]ef
t
Co~co,
he very generoufiy
declared, that he was
\\.illing
to
difmifs or difcharge any perfon who
was
defirous
ro remain behind , and rather fiay at home, than adventure
'OA
that enterprife:.
the which offer he made upon confiderafron that
preifed
or forced men
c0wki·
r:ie..
ver
be
good and
fall:
friends, ·or
fuch
as he could
1
1
ely
upon \n times of necefficy;
efpeciaUy
if fuch were Citizens
and
men of Efiates, who would draw many after
them
in cafe of
r-evok.
Onely he importuned and almofi forced
Diego de Silva
ro
acco!I)pany the Army,
prefumjng
that his prefence carried authority, and would
mum
animate and confirm the Souldiery.
D iego
de
Sylva
complied
accordingly~
rather out of fear than Love, as appears in that the
firCT:
opportunity he
forfook '
his
Parry,
and fled
to
the enemy,
as
we fhall fee
hereafter.
So that now
Hernan–
de:t
had procured fix friends, who accompanied him out of
Co co.,
three ofwhich
were
Thoma!
"f/a~que~,
{obn
de Piedrahit a
and
A lonfo D iaz,.,
\\ho
were a11 engaged
with
him
in the night
of
che rebeHion; but the other tbi:ee,
who·
were
Francifco Ntmnez:..,
R odrigo
de
Pineda
,
and
Diet.ode
Silvtt
he
obliged ,
and engaged to him afterwards
by
fair.
words and promifes, and by preferments and offices, the firfi
to
be Captain
of Horfe, and che feoJnd
of
Foot. Eight days afcer
Hernande:G
'" as marched out
of ·
Cozco,
he was
follO\
ed
by
his Lieutenant General \\"ith
2 0 0
Souldiers
more;
a-–
mongft which \''ere
2 0
condueted thither forne few days before,
by
Francifto
de
Hinojofa,
who brought chem from
Contif
uyo :
for the truth is, all thofe
wh0
went
under
tbe na·rne of Souldiers, followed the Party of
Hemnndez..
Giron,
"horn rhey
efieemed their Proteetour againft the rigorous Decrees and Edilts
0f
the Jufiices.,
which were
daily
promuJged~
and publHhed
to the
cfamage
and
prejudice
of the
Souldiery. Befides this
H inojofa,
came another Souldier
from
the parts of
Areque–
pa,
callecl
{ohn de Vera
de
Mendoya,
who
had
been formerly of the King's
party;
he
was young,
and
a Gentleman, and very ambitious of the honour co be a Captain ;
which being refufed to him
by
the
King's
Minifiers becaufe
of his youth; he came
{)Ver to
Bernand&~
Giron
with a companion of his
called
M11teo
Sanchez,
whom he
named his Enlign, and both arrived at
Co:tco
fame
f
e\ days before the deparmre of
Hernandez
from
thence
5
and to obtain chis preferment for himfelf and his Com–
rade
by the grace
and
favour
of the General , they came cogerher into the
TO\~
n .,
Mateo
Sanchez
carrying a Towel on a Staff, in refembJance of his
Coltours,
which
he as Enfign
was to carry.
But
what was
the
Event
of thek
matners
we ihaH fe€
in
the
following Chapter.
CHAP: