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fue confidently cafi: herfelf up9n her knees at his feet , and ;_,irh many teats asked
the life of her Kinfman :
Pifarro,
like_ a Gentleman, -prefently lifced her frorn che
ground ; and.though ac firíl: he feerned averíe and hardly perfüaded
to
grane him
merey ; yec at length fuífering himfelf to be overcome with the Prayers and Tears
ofthe Lady, :md with che Intreacies of thofe who íl:ood by.and .joined in the Peti–
tion, he granted _her requeft ; and as a ftgnal of the Pardon ( according as bis
·cuftomwas in che likecafes) his took off his Cap with the Medal on it, and de–
. livered it co her
to
be íhown to
Carvajal;
the which was brought to hirn juíl: at rhe
moment of time when
HernandlJ Bravo
was at the foot ofthe Tree with rhe halter
about.his Neck and ready ro be trufied up: che which fignal from
Gonfal<i Pifarro
-ferved for a fufficient Warrant to
Ftanr:ifco
de
Carvajal,
·who was alfo mollified
by
the Intreaties of thQfe then preíent, who efreemed rhemfelves concerned to pro–
mete and favour che Lady's Petition. -And thus
Hmian Bravo de Laguna
eícaped
death, whom I knew a long time, and left him living in
Cow;
poífefs1:l'ofa frnall
-PlanMtion.
_
Auguftine de Carate
in che feventh Book of bis Hiíl:ory Chapter che fixteenth ha–
ving related this Paílage, farther adds a particular which happened upan this Par–
don very rtrnarkable; .which was this ; Acertain Caprain called
Alonfo de Carcm1,
being then prefent when
Gonfalo Pi
1
arro
pardoned
Hernan Bravo,
kiífed
him
UpülJ
i:he Cheek, _and cryed out w1th a loud voice, Oh Prince of the World , curfed
be he who for fear of deach _!hall deny thee: notwithfianding which, befar<: three
hours were ended, both he and
Hernan Bravo,
and feveral others rev,olted, which
was the more ftrange, in regard rhat an honeíl: and a confidering _perfon might
be-
, lieve chat a man who had the halter about bis Neck could oot in
fo
íhort
a
time
have recovered from the agonies and ecíl:afies of death,
&c.
c ·H
·A·
P.
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Ma-rtin dé Robles
conÍrives a' Plot f~r
hi-5
_E/cape.
·w
H
EN
fo
rnany noble and principal Perfons had deferted
Gon2alo
Pi
farro
who had been che chief Inílruments to incite him ca appear in defence of
their Livesand,Eíl:ates, a great murmuring and troublewas-raifed in -che Camp:
for as
Caraie
relates, many perfons were amongíl: them, who had frorn the begin–
ning
followed
Pi2arro
,
and given him fuc.h affurance ,of their faith and fidéliry;
that no rnari.could reafonably imagin thar they could abandon ar betray him: at
which
Pif.11rro
was
fo
enraged and put into that ill humour; that no man duríl: to
appeat in his prefence ; and in his paffion gave Orders to che Ou_t-guards
to
kili a0y
njan whom chey found vvithout the Precio& of thé Camp : foon afrer which a
poor Soaldier happened ro fall inro their hands, upan_no other evidence, or pre–
fumption rarher, chan becaufe he carried two Shirts with him. But noching could
be more infamous and diíhonourable than what happened the night following
¡
when
Martin de Robles,
pretending to be -fick, that he might have leave to return
to che Cicy, fenc fecret intelligence to
Diego MaldlJnado,
who was a rich man, and
a Citizen, alid che High-coníl:able of
Couo,
that
Gonylo Pi~arro,
by advice of his
Captains intended to kill him ; and therefore out ofthe fenfe of friendíhip which
was between ·thern, he could not give him better Counfel than exhort him to take
ca¡-e of his own fafery.
Diego Maidonad<1
gave entire creden~e drererinto, becaufe'
he -t'emeínbred thac he w¡is once under an
ill-
o_pinion wich
Pi;arro,
when
he
fer–
ved che Vice-king againft him, as hath been formerly mentioned. After ·which
they put hirn to the torture, upan certain Libells which were fcattered in
Picarro'<;
Ténc, at che time wben the Battel at
~itu
was ready to begín; of all which:
though -he was afcerwards found innocenc, yet rhe aétions of hls friend
Antoni;
Altamirano
ferved afterwards to render him the more fufpeéted.
_
Thefe imaginations and che apprehenfions of a tormenting deatn, which was
praét_ifed in thofe days, _fo-operated on the m~od of
Diei_o -(l-1a_ldonado?
that ~elieving
every word rhat
Martin de Robles
h~d rold h1p,,- he, w1rhouc makmg a d1fcovery
co any of his Servancs, ar giving arder to faddle bis Horfes, of which he' had ma-.
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