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Royal

Commentaries.

BooK

his death he was not concerned in it ; but he having oppreffed the people, and

put many to death wichout either Reafon or Law, was in revenge chereof killed

by thofe who(e Kindred; Friends and Relations were murthered by him.

Ifthofe

Meífengersand Miniíl:ers·he fent to his Majeíl:y to render him an accounr of che

fiare of his Affairs here ( whQ were the Men who fold and betrayed him ) had

been admitéed and impartially heard, no doubt bue his Majeíl:y would have ac–

cepced his fervices, and caken other counfels and meafures chan whac now appear:

für whacfoever he aéted then was at the perfuafion and with the concarrence of

the Inhabitants and Reprefentativés of the feveral Cities ; and was rnade to be–

líeve -by Judges and learned Coun(ellours, t_hac what he aél:ed was agreeable to

Law and Equity.

To which the Preíident made -anfwer, That he had íbewed him(elf very un–

gratefull and undeferving the ~ratious favou~ of his _Majeílr towards hi_s Brother

che Marquis, whom he had ennched, and, with all h1s Relat10ns, had ra1fed from

che duíl:

erninenc degrees ofWealth and H<;mour; and that as to the difcovery

of the Councrey, he hirnfelf had conrributed nothing thereunto. ,Well, teplied

Pi9arro,

then Jet rny Brocher have che fole honour of this Difcovery, yet it cana

not be denied brit thac he had need of the help and affifütnce of all che ,four Bto–

thers, .together with the aid qf all our Family, and of fuch as wete allied to ir.

The favour which bis Majeíl:y íhewed to my Brocher c-0nfifted onely in a bare

Title wichout Eíl:ate or Revenue t~ereunto belpnging : and if any one íhall

fay

the contrary, I defire them to affign the place where fuch .Eíl:a'te or Revenue re~

mains. And to fay that

we wer

e raifed from the duíl:, (eetns fornething hatíh

and íl:ránge, for it is well

kno.wn

that we encred

Spain

with the

Goths,

and have

been-Gen.tlernen for many

Ag~s of

an eminent and ancienc Pa~íly.· ·His Maje(l:y

according to his

will

and pleaiure may beíl:ow Offices and placesofTruíl: on rnen

of obfcúre originals, and raife them from the duíl: who were born in it: And if

we were poor we fought our fortune through che world, and by our induíl:ry we

acquired chis Ernpire, which we have prefented to hisMajeíl:y, though we might

have appropriaced che fame unto our felves, as others have done who have been

the Difcoverers of new and unknown Councries.

Tlie Prefident, angred at thefe fayings, cried out twice with a loud voice, Take

him away, cake him away, Thi? Tyrant is the fame tó day as he was yefierday:

then

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carne and took him into his cuíl:ody, having (as we have faid)

defired that Office of che Prefidenc. The ocher Captáins were fent co differenc

places, to be kept under fafe Guards; bue

Francifco de Carvajal;

though an aged

man ofeighcy four years, out of a natural delire .to prolong

life,

·made his ~fcape

and fled : he was mounced on a Horfe of a light Chefnut colour, and forneching

old ; I .knew him, .and that he was called

Bofcanillo

;

he was a w'ell-íhaped Horfe

and had been excellently good in his time : and being now to pafs over a narroV:

Scream or Brook ( as there are many in that Councrey) he haíl:ily plunged down

a Bank of eighc Foot deep to the Water, an~ on the ocher fide' it was as high to

gec up, and very rocky,

that having pafied over he laboured much

afcend

the Bank :

Carvajal,

being old ~nd corpulent, could give no help to ·his Horfe ;

for if he had onely held by bis Main he had goc .over but fwaying too rnuch up–

en one fide, he pulled che Horfe apon hirn, and both of them fell togethér.inro

the Brook, and lle under his Horfe; in which condition his own Souldiers feifed

and took him-and carried him away prifoner ~o che Prefident,

hopes by fuch

·á

prefent and piece of fervice to obcain cheir own Parélons.

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