978 / 1060
I
I
I
95
2
Royal
Commentaries.
BooK_ VII.
•
I
CH
AP.
xx.
What
Francifco Hernandez
aCled after the Batte!.
He
fends Officers
to
feveral parts of the
Kingdo111 to
plunder
the Cities.
The quantity
of
Silver which they
rohhed
fronz two
Citi'Z.!ns at
Cozco.
A
Fter the Bartel
Francifco Hernandez
remained forty days within
his
Fortifi–
cation; both to pleafe himfelf with the thoughts of Victory, and to cure
thofe of the King's Party who had received wounds in the Fight, whom he careffed .
and treated as kindly as was. poffible, to oblige them co remain
his
Friends of
which many followed him unrill the day of his overthrow : ·during
which rime
he
difpatched his Lieutenant-General
Alvarado
to
Co~co
in purfuit of thofe
wh~
had efcaped out of the Battel: and likewife ordered his Serjeam-Major
Antonio
Car–
·rillo,
to go to the City of
Peace,
to
Cucuito, Potocft
and the City
of
Plate,
and
to
tra–
vel over all the Provinces to gather ' hat
Men,
Arms and Horfes he could find .
chat by
fuch
an employment he might divert and recover himfelf from
the
melan~
choly he had conceived for his late thamefull flight out of the Battel of
ChHquinca:
and particularly he charged him to get what Gold and Silver he could find, and alfo
the
Wine
which\
as hidden;
for a
certainSouldier, lately of the Marlhal's Army,
named
FrancifcoBolonna,
told him, that he knew where a great quantity was concea–
led : to bring which,
Antonio Carrillo,
with
a
party of twenty Souldiers taking
Fran–
cifco
Bolonn~
together with them, was ordered abroad; of which twenty Souldiers
·
t
o onely were belonging to
Hernandez:.,
and the refr had been the
M
rfhal's men:
for
which reafon it was generally fufpeeted, and fecretly whifpered, that
Hern11nde~
had
fent his Serjeant-Major with thefe men to confound and defiroy them, and not .
co the end declared; which accordingly happened, a
\ ·e tball fee hereafter.
Likewife
l_ohn de
Piedrahita
was fen.t to the City of
Arequepa,
to
provide whar Men,
Horfes ana Arms he could find: and upon tliis occafion he gave him the Tide of
his Major-General of the Army of Liberry ;
for
fo
Hermmdc~
fiyJed his Forces, cal–
ling them Refl:orers of the People's Liberty: And then to
Alwirado
he nan ed him
hi
Lord Lieutenant, that with thefe [welling
Title
thefe two great Officers might
be encouraged with more pride and vain-glor
to aet the part they had undertaken.
According to Orders
Alvarado
went to
Couo
in purfuit of thofe who
had
fled from
the Bartel at
Chuquinca ;
and the day before he entred into the City feven Souldiers
. of thofe formerly belonging
to
the Marfhal came hither (the chief of which was
called
[ohn de Cardona)
and brought the
fa~
news of the
Marfha_l'
d.efeat, to the
great grief and amazement of the \ hole City, \.vho could not believe
1t
poffible for
fuch a ruinous fellow as
Hermmdez.,
to gain fuch a Vittory : and being now affrigh–
ted with the cruelty of this Tyrant, they refol ed all to fly, and abandon the Ci–
cy rather than ro
fall
into
his
mercilefs hand .
Franci(co Rodrig11ez., de
Villaf11erte,
who\'
as
then High Conflable, gathered what people of the City he could toge–
ther, \'\'hich,
V\
ith
the feven Souldiers that were fled, could fcarce make up the
number of
forty
men, and with
thefe
he
marched
by the Vi'ay
of
Callao :
fome
of
thefe took up their lodging for the firfl night about a league and a halffrom the City
of which the High Confiable vvas one,
b
others proceeded three or four leagues
farther, by which means they preferved thernfel
es:
for thi honefi
{ohn
de
Cardona
feeing the
onfrable rake up
,his
OQ.arcers
fo
near the
T
wn, he fiole privately
·
a
way from them, and came
to
Co~co
about midnight, where
he
gave information
to
Alvarado
\;t;,
here
Vtlltijuerte
and about twenty others with him remained about
a league and a half from the Town: whereupon he commanded
Alonfa
Gonf41e~
the Hangman General with a party of t\.''enty men immediately
to
marcfi forrn and
take
Villafuerte
and
his
Companion~;
which \Ji:as performed with that diligence,
that the next morning before eight a Clock
Pil/Pj11erte
and his Companions
were all brought back to
Co~co,
and delivered into
the
hands of the Lord
ieutenant
Alvarado;
who intended co have put
T/illef11erte
and feveral of chofe
with
him to
death;
but in regard
no crime could be
laid
to
their charge, the
inter~
I
-