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VII.
Royal
Commentaries.
drons into divers
parts·;
one of which
V/aS
rohn de Piedrahita
with .fixty Souldiers,
.
and the other was
Salvador de Lof_ana
with
forty
others,..
From his Majefiy' Camp
Geronimo
de
Coftilla,
a Citizen of
Coz:.co,
was ordered with twenty five Souldiers to
fcour the Counrrey, and difcover the enemies quarters; It
\:ms
his fortune
to
cake
that
way
by which
{ohn
de
Piedrahita
was coming; but having intelligence that he
was not above four leagues diltanr, and that he was fixty men £hong, he made
his retreat, not being able to engage 'with fo great a number.
B~t
on the_ other
fide
Piedrahita
having advice from the
India'3s
(who
as
we have
fa1d
are Spies for
both parties) that
Geronimo
Coftilla
was
not
fa_r
from him, he march d. in the: night
towards him, and by break of day beat up his QQ.arcers, where, furprifing him un–
awares, he routed him,' and took three prifoners, and therewith returned to
the
Army.
C I-I
A
P.
IX.
Three of the King's Captains tal<._e a C
tf
Plain and
forty
Soul–
diers belonging to the Rebels : they deliver thenz up to one
of
the Juftices.
Francifco Hernandez
finding
111any
of his
Souldiers to revolt fronz hinz, refolves to engage the Royal
Ar111Jo
A
ccording to the fucceffes of War, which are always various and doubtfull,
it was the fortune of
Geronimo
de
CoftiJla
in his retreat .to meet with
Geronimo
de Si1va,
whom the Jufiices had fent after him with fome recruits
7
and being
fearfull that
Hernandez:.
was drawing towards them with his whole Army, they both
judged
fit
to retreat, and in the way it was their chance
to
take an
Indian
who
was a domefiick Servant to Captain
Salvador
de
Lof_ana;
to whom they put divers
quefiions, and forced him to confefs in what place his Mafier was, and what num–
ber of people he had with him : of which they {enc advice
to
the Judges, and de–
flred a fufficient recruit of Men to furpri[e and take them. The
J
ufiices immedi·
ately upoh this notice di[patched away
Lope Martin
wich fixty men more for their
affill:ence, who joyning with
Geronimo de Coftilla,
and
Geronimo
de
Silva,
fo
well
ma·
naged their bufinefS, that though the enemy were good Souldiers, and well armed
with
Fire-locks, and had pofted them[elves in a
fafi
place, yet upon promife of
pardon for all their pafl: offences
to
his Majell:y they fubrnitted and furrendred them–
felves, and came quietly out of their Fort, Coffering thernfelves all to ·be taken,
except one man, who made his e[cape to carry the news thereof to
Francifco Her-
1utnde~;
who was greatly troubled thereat, becau[e he confided much in
Lo2ana
and
his Souldiers, who were the befi and choiceft men that he had in all his Army•.
The
prifoners being carried to the King's Camp, the
J
ufiices would have hanged
them all, but that the Souldiers began
to
mutiny, protefiing that they would never
more make excurfions into the Couotrey, nor aet
farther
againfl: the enemy, in
care thefe men were executed ; for that might provoke the contrary party to re:. .
turn them ihe )ike, and oblige the Souldiery to aet on both fides in a defperate
manner : the Captains alfo took up the matter in favour of their Souldiers, and
' petitioned the Court of Jufl:ice td moderate the Sentence: who thereupon to put
them out of fight and view of the Army, fent
Lofana
and his Souldiers to
A!ta?pi–
rano
bis Majefiy's Judge Advocate at Sea,
to
di[pofe of chem as he thought fir;
who
by
virtue of that Warrant hanged up
Lofana
and other two of the rnoft
culpa
le
amongfr them, and b.anilhed all the refi out of the Kingdom.
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·
Though this lofs of Captain
Lof ana
and his Souldiers very much troubled and
affiieted
Hernande~,
yet, not to fhew hirnfelfdifmayed, he proceeded forward with
his
A;my,
depen~~ng
much upon the plots and firaregems of War which he had
contrived : ancJ being come to the Valley of
Pachacamac
four leagues diflanc from
the City of
Los RCJ
1
e1,
he called a Council ofWar
to
refolve on matters which
were
to
be atted: and there
it
was refolved, that by night they fhoul<l furprife
that pare of the
Army
whiclJ was encamped without the Cicy s and chat they
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