874 / 1070
Royal ~ommentar~~f.
_
BooK
V.
committed againft God, tbe King and bis neighbours. The _fame day
F:ancifco d(
Carvajal
was exe\uted: h~ w~s drawn and quart~re9; and _h1s quarters 91ípofed of
in divers places aoout the City of
Co::,co:
bue h1s Head W:t~h cb11t of
Pzf_arro
s was
carried to
Lima:
and
Pi 1
arro's
houfe likewife in that City was demolifued, and ·
the ground íl:rewed with Salt , with a Moteo or lnfcription fet thereupon. This
carvajal,
from the time that he
was
taken, to the time thac he was execuced, íhew–
ed as litde fear and.apprehenfion; and was as little concerned at che approach of
death,
as
he
had been at
any
time of his greaceft profpericy: for when the fen–
cence was declared to him , he received it without any alteration or change in bis
countenance; and faid, 'Tis no matter, I can bue dye¡ That day in the morning
C11ro11jal
asked how many had been execuced ; and when ic was told him, that
nene had been as yet ; he faid, your Lord Prefident is a very mercifull Prince, for
if
the fortune of éhe day had been ours , I fhould ac one fitting have difpofed of
che quarters of nine hundred men. He was hardly perfuaded to come to confet:
íion, for he told them, that he had confefied lately ; and wh~n chey talked to.him·
of refütution, he laughed aloud ; faymg, that he had nothmg to fay
;tS
to,
that
point; and fwore that he mved :nothing to any perfon, unlefs haff a Royal to a
Tripe-wpm_an who lives at .the G~te
ot
.Arm~l
in
Sroile,
wh!ch debe he maqe at
the time when he remaiQed chere mexpe&non o( a paífage mto che
Jndin
;
be–
ing on che hurdle to be dmvn_and crouaed into a Harnper infiead. of a large Flaf:
kec ; he faid , Children and Old men are puc inco Cradles : and being come to
the place ofexecution, che people crouded
fo
to fee him, chat che B,ang-mé!,n had
not room to doe bis duty ; and thereupon he called to chem , and faid ; Gentle–
men, _pray give che Officer place to doe Jufüce.
fo
fine, he died more like a
brave Roman chan agood Chrifüan.. Thus far
Pa/(ntino,
whofe relation feerns to
be grounded on che report of fome perfons who haced
Ca7'11ajal
for the evil he had
done them , and noc being able to wreak their_anger on his perfon, would fatisfic
their revenge upon·his fame and reputation.
c ·H A P. XL.
What
Francifco de Carvajal
faid and
did on the day of hú
Jeath, añd what account Authours give of hú condition
and s/dlfu/nefs in War.
,
·BU
'f
rtow to return to whac chis Auchoµr (aid.
le
is
not to
be
hefieved, that
.
a Biíhop
fo
religious as he of
Couo
was, íhould eicher in publick or in fecrec
firike an old man
of
eighty,four years of age ; nor
is
it probable that
Diego Cenu-
110
who was a diícreet and judicious pe~fon íhould offer his fervice with
fo
rnuch
cornplement
as isreponed, to a man whom he knew would be executed in a few ·
hours. Nor
C.Jnwe think that
Franci/co de Carvajal,
ofwhom all Writers give che
charader .of
a fober, difcreet perfon; and in cefümony chereof publiíh rnany of
bis wife,and fententious fayings , íhould utter fuch vile and unfeemly ~reffions
as
are before relaced : Nor yet are thefe ílories to be fathered on che Auchour, who
no doubt heard and received chem in che City, where éhey were framed a'nd ven–
ced, and may properly país for Sharns, which are lyes formed and coloured to país
for truths. For
Franci[co
d(
Carvajal
did not diílernble bis knowledge of
Cmteno,
bue difcourfed wich him, as is rnentioned ;, and I am well aífared chereoffrorn the
reílimopy oftthofe who that very day were prefent at the meeting of chefe perfons.
And diotigh
Gomara,
in Chap.187. confums almoíl: the fame, yet it is wich fo lictle
difference, thac 'tis probable
Palentino
took it from his Narrative. For
fo
it was,
that a Souldier of principal rank amoogfr .chofe of
Pfru,
corning into
Spain,
foon
afcer
Gimara's
Hiíl:ory was publiíhed , acfidemally mee with this Authour in che
Streets , and having fome difcourfe wich hirn upon feveral paífages , he asked him
how he durfi adventure to print
fo
manifefi a lye, when no fuch thing paífed ; and
·
chereunto