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Booi<:
V.
Roval Commentaries.
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tainty as a man can h?.ve that was notan eye-witnéfs-;
fo
fix daysJafümthis mar–
ter happt:m"'d,
I
carne to the City with
my
linde
¡ohn de Varg111
anq with-Captain
Rodrigo de Pantqja,
and with about nine
Spa¡ziards
more, who q1;ne from a Planta~
tion about
tb
:y
Le:.gues diíl:am from
Couo,
asdid alfo ali my fai.njly,, w/19 fled
from
Pifarro's
parcy, and a
,ji;:
for
refüge
to
thacCity, wich intent.t{t)
,Q,e
fül:½d
iÓ
Ms
Majefiy's fervice : but
I
and my brocher followed chem, and che. nex[ cfayíaf–
ter
I
carne. thicher
I
was Sroughc
to
kifs
Diego
Centeno's
pao_ds; . and Yrem.embei:
bis left-h nd was bnu.,d up in a piece of black Taf[e,t}?~; and thog~h he wa~
wounded in the
Thigb,
yec he feemed not very lame wi~h it; for,
I
o6(ervep,
he
was íl:anding upon his Legs: he was·lodged
in
che
H~ufe.:
of
Fernan/.o,,Bachicaq,
which now,belougs
to
Don Lewis Palomina.:
All
which rui.rpened f0,m~ f~w days
afrer the Féaíl: o
the
moíl: Holy Sacrament, in the year
1147.
And we have
fi–
nifüed.the Hiíl:ory hereof about the fame,momh, in rhe yeal.i·
16or.
ano -do con–
firm the cruth chereof, which
I
faw with
rny
own eyes.
Ali che Fighc wasfriendly, and rather in words than áó.tions, for had they been
in,earneíl:, as,Hiíl:or-ians fay , fourty eight men
fo
iil
armed ,as·thefe were, whofé
ehief Arms,were opely Daggers faíl:ned
t0
the end of Scaves,, wo1,1ld have .had
a:
difficult task,
to
have engaged againíl: thr,ee hundrnd,
mcm
all well armed and:
difciplined, as thofe were under the cmpmand•of
Antonio14~.&bles_.
Caprain .
Antonio de Rob!CJ,
being
tlrus
defeated arid abánaoned by his Sogldiers,
flecl
for Sanéliuary into the CQnvent of Saint
Hranci,,
wbich
in
thofe days was on
t:hez
Eaft fide of che City , and not \Vmere;it n0w is.: ,from.whence
Diego <;ent~nq
fent the ntxt day to bring
de Robles
to
him,'1rl0tl
w.ith
de6gn to kill
him, for he
was a perfon of a genrle cemper, and not bloudy,
bue
co perfuade him to fer~e
his
Majeíl:y.
But
Antonio
de
Robles
(
as
Carate
reports
of
hj_m'},
W,lS
,él
Y,ouGh,
·aod of
no great underíl:andiog,
aod
behaved hirnfolf as if
fil!:!
b~d ~ ~ .ilillCornrnan.der
iQ
Cbief ot che Cicy, ucreri1
g
rnany infolent Sayings in
favoun
of
Bi;,arro's'PátW,.
and
r-efleéting wiuh fome difgracefull cezrrns
m
tbe,(envice of;bis. Majefty_:_a.e, which
Diego Centeno
being greacly otfen<iled, (ene rto take
@ÍP
fuis,J{eqd,5 ~n.d
;,(¡b©egh
me
was·
íufficieotly provoked to lna~e banged·bim, ~as
it
w,asrgene_rally_ belmtie~!;
be
would). yenbeing a Gentleman, be wasfencenced tcu m.ore.hobómable
death.
.
lihofü who were wel'l affeétedito
Rifar.ras
PartY,, cóh,v~y,ed ~bemfelves.a.wáy
in
ihe
Right, and wich great expeditiot1 travelled to
Rimaq;
whe11é rhey broughc the
1liuíl-
news to
llifarro,
of the lofs of
Antonio de Rvb!u
and
.J.uj~ .men,
at
<i;o¡::,c9.
rJiwmicli
t-hough
ill
news, and deep1y refented by
.Bifarro.,
yec
h
e:a o.nf,ed)
and
áiililmbled
lfiis
troub.l'dor a rime, and gave out bis Orders and Cornmábds
fu.
fuch
mábner
a_s we
fha,!I
de<!!are hereafcer
:
~uc fo
f
oon,as the ne~s of.
the
.,Viétory..;
w~l:\i<rhE>ie!¡Ó
<i:enteno
had gamed ha~ fpread 1t fe!~
m
ch~ CounQ;1es., .
al!
th0[e·p.eop_l
e.-w.how.ere
ab[conded, and had h1d themfelves
m
pam about f9rty1
©
&ifty,
leagues
ro.und,
re–
tarned
w.
Co:i:.co
in greaE numbers, amongíl:,.wbich wére,.diizersi perfons: óff-.qúalityi,
and Souldiet's of honour and farne, who, .joyning
wjtln
diirue
in,
CQ,::.c.o,,
f©tlned
a
B
dy of five hundred men, who witb c0mrrio11e::0o_fei1t freely ohofe
D1:ego1Ce1Jt010
to be cheir Commander in Chief; wbo accorclingly ,gavé out CQnimiilions both
for Horfo and Foot to feveral Captains, whofe narries we íh'aU mention when wa
come to·-relare the Battel of
Hu4rina.
:
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,
:, ,
·
So foon
as
General
eenteno
had reformed bis.Force~, he returned fo
6oll1W,
iWith
defign to
fall
upon
Alon90de M endºfª
(
wbo was app0imedlG@\\ernour
1
dfi"che"
Gi–
tY
of
Plate
by
Gonfalo Pifarr,o)
and 'to reduce bim ~o·ohedlenc~·óf lüs.Majel½y ei–
ther by fair or
foul
means.
'·. ·
"· "' ,
··
'
The news of
Centeno's
fuccefs at
Co:i:.co
reached
to
che City of
Arequepa
in a very
íhort rime, where a certain Capcain refided, called
Luc,u Martin 'f/egaffe
an inhabi–
cant of that City, and fent thither by
Gonfalo Pifarro
afcer the BatteLof
~itu
for
Governour of the place. ThisCaptain fíaving nocas yec received in~elligence of
what had paífed at
Co:,;,co,
refo!ved
to
bring an bundred :md thirty men wich him
to
Pivmo
to
ferve him in his Camp; b~c being on his rnarcb fome few leagues
from che City, his own meo who wenc unwillingly upon chat fervice, delired
him
to
turn to rhe King's Party, bue be íhewing an averGon thereunto they feifed
upon him, and kept him prifoner, chac he íhould not fly from thern, nor leave
them.
.
So foon as they were returned
to
Arequepa
they received news of all that
Di,go
Centeno
haddone, and being all Friends and inti_macely acquainted, they perfuaded
Luc,u Martin
to cbange bis mind and Party, and
to
ferve his Majefiy, and ro doe
.
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