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BooK
IV.
Royal
Commentaries.
he was prefentwhen che Vice·king was made a prifoñer ; and chat the Judges being
in che Market-place, upon .break of day fome Musket-fbot were maqe upon
them from a Gallery of the Vice·king's houfe, at which the Souldiers who .were
with che Vice-king were fo incenfed, that they reíolved to ént.ér his.houfe by
force, aod kill ali chofe who oppofed chem: but the Judges pacified them with
good words,
and
fent Father_(,'.afpar
de Carvajal,
fuperiour of the Order of
St. Do–
minick._,
:md
Antonio e/e Robles,
Brocher of
Martir/de Robles;
to Jet che Vice king
know chat they had no other incencion than onely to conferve chemfelves from .
being tranfported and fhipped away by force, againíl: the expreís Cornmand of his
M*(ly. And that if he p!eafed wichout farther conceíl: co come ii:ito che greac
t
Cpurch, they1W@Qld there aw:nd hirn; otherwife he would put himf~lf into tria~
nifeíl: danger, with all chofe who adhered to him. Whilíl: thefe Meífengers were
gon ,
to
,che Vice-king , che hundred Souldiers who were of his Guard forfook
him ; and revolced ~lfo to che Judges; and then che Souldiers, finding che en–
trance open aqd eaGe, began
to
plunder che Servants Charnbers which were
ín
the Court-yar,d, . About chis time . Dr.
Carate,
coming out of his C~amber tQ
j@yn wirh che Vice-king, meMhe Judges in the way, and feeing thac he could
noc have entrance., he wenc inw-che Church wirh
_them.
The Vice-king, having
receiyed his Melfage, and finding him abandoned by all chofe in whom he had
placed che great.~íb'confidenc@., h,e went voluntarily into the Church, and rher(j!
delivered him[elí up into che hands of che Judges, who brought him to
Licenciado
Cepeda's
Houfeiarmed as he tw,as with his Coat of Mail and Gantlet; and feeing ·
Carate
in compahy with the.reft ;.
what,
faid he , Carate,
areyou alfo
of_
thú Party?
areyou come
alfo
to ta~e
m.e,
in whom Jrr-epofed fo much confidence?
To which he rep!y–
ed,
whofoever hath told you
,.
th-at 1 am o{ that number lies
;
for it
ü
}lotorio~fly k_non,n
who are the perfom who toofuou, and wh<J ~ep
JOU
Prifaner.
Then Orders were given,
d1a~ ~he Vice-kjng fhould fpeedily be emlmked upon one
df
rh~ Ships,· and ,
fent;; into
Spain;
leíl:
Gonfalo Pifarro,
comiQg thither, and 6nding him in, cuílody;
{hquld kill hi(.11, or that the.Relationsof Agenc
_Suam:,
fhould deGg11 rhe like i11
rev~nge for che Murrher of ·tbeir Kinfman; and that what mifchief befell him
, of thac kind , che fault of al! would be objeél:ed unto rhem : and farcher rhey
con(idered, rhat in cafe they fhould fend him away without fome force or re–
fi,rajnt upon
hin:i~.
,he might remrn afhore, and fall upon them again: whar to
doe
herein diey kñew not, or what
to
refolve, fo that they feemed
to
repenr of what
they had alre_ady.done. Howfoever chere was no other remedy now but they
muíl: proceed ;' and
fo
they rnade
Licenciado Cepeda
their Captain General, who ,
with a íl:rong Guard , conduéted the King to the Sea-Gde , with intenc ro puc
'lüm aboard a Ship ; bue herein they found fome difficulty : for
DiegoA/vare~ Cu.:.
ero
,
who was at chac rime Admira! of the fleet, feeing great numbers· of peo•
ple on che fhoar, and that they were bringing the Vice-king prifoner, fent Cap–
rain
Geronim~ Curbano
in his Long-boat armed with Sm:ill-fhot, and fome Petre.a
ro's in the head, to comrnand al! che Boats belonging
to
the Fleet
to
c01ne a–
board the Admira!; and wirh them he went
to
require.the Judges
to
fet che
Vice-King at liberty : bue chis aétion produced little effeél:, onely forne Shot
were interchanged between the Sea and the Town, and fo the Adrniral returned
again to bis Ship. Afrer which the Judges fentoff a Boac to
Cuero,
to require
him
to
furrender the Fleec to thern, with the Cbildren of the Marquis, and thac
then they would deliver the Vice-king into his hands to be ca~ried away wich one
of
the Ships; and if not, thac he muíl: expeél: the fequel thereof. This Meffage
was carried with confent of che Vice-king by Friar
Gajpar
de
Carvajal,
who at
the Ship íide openly declared it , in the prefence of
Vaca de Caftro,
who was chen
a Prifoner on board ; which when
Diego Alvarez, Cuero
heard; ancl confidered the
danger the Vice-king was in, he prefently landed the Children of che Marquis in
the Boats belonging
co
the Fleet together with
Don Antonio
and his Wife; which
being done, che Judges farther required a furrend
er of the whole Fleet, or other•
wife they threamed to cút off t~e H~ad of the Vice-ki.ng. . During chis Treaty,
Vela Numiez, ,
Brocher of the VKe-kmg went
to
and frow1th Meffages between
che Admira! and che Judges; and feeing that the Caprains of the Ships refolved
noc to abandon their Charge, chey remrm:d with the Vice-king to the Cicy under,
a very íl:rong Guard. Two days after which, the Capcains of che Fleet receiyed
intelligence, rhat che Judges and Souldiers were comriving means how to for–
prize che Fleet by fending a ílrong
1
Party of Mufqueciers,iil Boats_
t-0
aHack them
~
'
for
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