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Rr:Jal Coinmentaríer.
l;ii:~néiad.o Cepeda
·carri~d with him a wh~le Li_brary of Law-booUs, o~t
·o(
.whjch,
wich che help of cercam Lavyy.~rs who !tved
m
thofe parts, ~e drew
up1
an En–
diétment of High Treafon agamíl: the Prefident
Gafca,
and
agamíl:,:Pedro,de Hinojofa
and
ali
che other Capt~ins, for having betrayed the Fleet-into tl1e,,hands of the
,Preíident. . And
to
make che bufinefs more formal, Wimeíles·w..eEe·lexamir,¡ed,
and che rreachery and robbery made by the Capcains proved u¡;,on Oath:,, and char
Gafca
h:id accepted of nhe Ships, and apprnpriated them
to
hi's 0wn·ufe; which
coíl:
Pi
1
arro
about a huQdred choufand pieces of Eight: upon chis Procefs Sencence
of Deach was paffed upon them all
ro
be hanged, drawn and quarrered:
Cepeda
wa5 thdiríl who figned ,che Sencence, and defüed
Gon
1
alo Pipilrro
and
~u
his Offi–
cers to fubícribe it in like mariner; bue ,when
Cepeda-carne
to
Francifco Cal.vajal
for
his hand, celling hirn tban his firm was of greac con(equence,
Carvajal
fmiled and
made a jeíl of che Semence.
I
warrant you,
íaid
he, fo foon as chis iV/.r.iting is
figned ,by chis learned Council in che
Law,
execucion will immedia~el~lfoll0w
chereupon, aod che coodemnecrl perfoos dye upon che Í¡)ot. No, .Sir,
fai@
úcpada,
bue
ir
is good
ro
have chem íentenced by couríe of Law, thac when we ~ake rhem
execueion· may preíendy follow wichouc delay or lofs of time. Ar which anfwer
Carvajaf
laughed aloud ; As
I
ama Souldier, faid he,
I
chought chat
fo
foon as
I
had figned clíe Sentence, fome certain blow of Thunder-bolt would have knocked
thern
áll
dead on a fudden ;- bue if ic be not fo,
for
rny pan
I
would not give
a
farthing fer ali your Sentence nor Subfr:riptions; for had
I
chem bue here, wichouc
fuch formalities,
I
would find a way
ro.
execuce your Semence wich more-expedi–
tion;
to
which he added many ocher pleafanc Sayings
ro
fhewche impercinence of
fuch a Sencence.
,
Licen.
1
iado Polo
(
of whom we have forrnerly made mencion) was preíenc ac chis
Aífembly, where he
giwe
fome reafons againíl: che Sencence: che
firfl
v,·as,
Be–
caufe
Gafca
was a Priefl; and in Holy Orders, and therefore no Sencence of Death
could be paffed upom·him in thac namre, under pein
of
excommunicarion : ano–
ther reaíoo was, cbat this Sentence oughc noc to be pfecipicaced in fuch manner,
becaufe 'ic rnight probably be hoped, thac fome of cho(e Capcains, who for fear
o[
Hinojofa
had betrayed cbeir Ships
ro
Gafca,
mighc yec repenc of chis aétion, and
i:ecum again
to
their ducy; whereas on che comrary, tbey will become. deíperace
if
che cloor be
fhuc,
and chey , excluded from Pardon
by
a Semence. ·
U
pon
~heíe reafons a ílop 'was\given
to
che Decree, and che Wricing figned by none
qut
Cepeda.
CH ,A ·P.
VIII.
Gon~alo ·Pí~arro
fe~Js
John
de Acoíl:a
againfl
Loren\o
de Aldana.
Spyes are fent from both fides. The death
of
Pedro
-de
PueJles.
W
Hilíl matters were chus in confulcacion, and che Lawyers bufied in draw–
ing up their ridiculous and impertinenc Procefs,
Gonfalo Picarro
received
Advice, chac che four Ships under che command of
Lorenfº de Aldana,
and che
other Captains were making cheir way towards rhe Cicy of
Los Reyes,
chat they
had already been at
Truxillo,
and were failing along che Coaíl: : whereupon he de–
tached fifcy Hmfemen armed wich Garbines, under che command of Capcain
'/oh»
de Aco.fta,
to march to che Sea-fhore, and hinder them from caking
'N
ood, or
Water, or landing in any of che Porcs.
rohn de Aco.fta
proceeded as far
as
Trnxillo,
bue
duríl not íl:ay above one day there, for fear of
Diego de
Mora,
who was chen
in
Cajfamarca;
wherefore he returned again
to
che Sea-coaír, and lay in waic ·ex–
peéting 'to cake fome of
Aldana's
meo in ca(e any of chem fhould advencure to
come afhore.
Aldana
on the ocher fide had Spyes abroad who gave him nocice of
ali the mocions of
rohn_ de Acofta;
u
pon knowledge of which he laid an ambufh of
a
huqdred N¡lusketiers in
a
certain Wood ·chrough which
Aco.fta
was to pafs: bue he
receiving intelligen~e théreofi turned another way, and fell upon
a
parcy of chofe
which