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Royal
Comrnentaries.
p.irticu lar ly againfi: mine : the \\ hich \Vas performed "' ith that difadvanrage to us,
rhat
HernandeZJ
<hot
and killed
our people , and defeated
us,
without moving out
of the co ere of his Fortification,
many
of
our
principal men and perfons ofQua–
lity are killed; the p:-ecife number I cannot tell_, becaufe the Marfhal retired be–
fore
Hernandez,
fallied out of his Fortification :
they
fay
the Marfhal is wounded,
bur I am fore
it
was neither with fighting nor giving encouragement co his Soul–
dieis
&c.
Thus far
P
alentino.
The
Ne\~:s
of the lofs \\'hich t11e Marfhal fufiained being now confirmed by
all
h~mds
;
the
J
ufl:ices commanded that the Army ihould march, and follow
Her–
nande~;
and refolved, that the Court of
J
ufiice lbould accompany the Army,
co
give greater authority and reputation,
as
Palentino
faith, to their Caufe and Procee–
dings and to take off t 1e murmurings of the Souldiery, who perhaps might com–
plain' of the hardibip they unden•:ent, whiHl: the Jufiices were fo1acing and en–
joying
thernfel
~s
at hof!le : but Judge
Altamirano
opp~fed
this
ref~lucion,
alledg–
ing chat
his
Ma1ell:y havmg confined the Court of
J
ud1cacure to
Lima,
the Bench
had
no power or authority without the Precincrs oC that
J
urifdiction ; nor ought
they
to
remove from thence without exprefs command from his Majefiy. But
DoB:our
Saravia
earnefily infilling that the Court was in this emergency obliged
to move
~ith
the
Army ;
Altamirano
pofitively declared, that he
\-.
1
as
refolved
not to fiir, for that rhe King had not given him a Commiffion to
fight,
but to
fit
upon his Bench , and there
to
judge fuch Caufes as fhould be brought before him.
To
hich Doetour
Saravia
replyed , that he would
fuf
pend him of his Office
in
c fe he
followed not the Army , and that he would fend Orders
to
the Officers
of the
Kings
Treafury to flop the payment of his Salary; and accordingly the
fame was notified, though afterwards it was made good by a particular Warrant
from his Ivfaje!l:y.
Thus
far
Palentino~
A
frer long Difputes of this kind , it was at length determined , that the three
J
ufi:ices,
viz.
Doetour
Saravia
,
Judge
Santillan
,
and
Mercado
,
<hould attend
the
Royal Army; and that
Altamirano
,
who had profeffed himfelf ignorant and un–
skilfull
of Arms, and would wage no other War
than
civil Pleadings
at
the
Bar,
fhould remain in the City of
Los Reye.r
in quality ofLord ChiefJuftice; and that
Diego
de
Mora,
a .Citizen
of
Truxillo,
(who, as .we have
faid,
brought
a
good com–
pany of Mufquetters
to
the Army,) .was appointed Governour
of
the City, and
l1is
Company given to another Captain called
Pedro
de Car1tte.
Things being or–
dered and difpofed in this manner, and a fufficient
uard
being
appointed for the
Sea,coafi, the Royal Army marched to
Huamanca,
on the way
w
hereunto, a Soul–
dier of great reputation,
named
rohn
Chacon,
came
to
them, having been former–
ly takeH by the Rebels in the Rout at
Villacori
;
but having the credit and efieem
of a good Officer ,
Hernande~
V\
as very defirous to oblige him
to
be his friend
and for that reafon had given him the command of a Company of Mufquetiers;
but
rohn
Chacon,
being a perfon of Loyal Principles to his Majefl:y, fecretly plot- .
ted with other friends
to
kill the Tyrant ; but as at that time there was no faith
or honefiy amongfi: that fort of People; but that they fold and betrayed one the
other, as they could bell: make their Market ;
fo
they difcovered to
Hernandez
the
Plot intended againfi: him, of which
{ohn
Chacon
having intimation, he efcaped
be–
fore they could feize him, and ran away in the fight of
Hernande~
and all his Sou1-
diers : ho
1
foever
in
th_e way his Life was in great hazard ; for (as we have
f
aid
before) the
IncJi.an.r
having received Commands
to
kill all thofe who fled from
the Batte!, they had certainly alfo killed
Chacon,
had
it
not been for a Carbine he
carried with him, which he often pref< nted at the
Indians,
and thereby faved his
Life:
howfoever he came wounded co the Royal Camp, where he gave a large
account of the State of
Hernande:t
and his Forces, and of what they intended and
defigned to act; which information the
J
ull:ices made ufe of for their better govern–
ment, and with much fatisfaetion they marched co
Huamanca
;
where we will
leave them to relate what
Francifco Hernandez
was doing at the fame time.
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