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VI.
Royal CommentarÚs.
defüed revenge he adventured one Monday a't noon co encer inco the Houfe of
Efqu~vel,
a~d h~ving ,valked for fome time in che yard below, and !n t~e Gallery
above, and having,paífed through a Hall and a Chamber, and entrmg
meo
an irt"
ward Chamber wfiere he kept his . .Books, he found him there íleeping with one
in his hand, apd rq:qlil1ing
foftly
to.him, he 11-abb'd him with his Dagger through
the righc Temple
of
his head,. and gave him three or four ítabbs more inco che
Body, noc wher~ the Coat ofMail covered him, bue in che opening of his Clothes.
Afcer which
Agufré
recurned by the fame way chac he came, and being come to
'che füeec poor¡ imitftng his I-Jic
J-ie
had che courage to recuro again and fetch ic,
~nd cfierewich went•@uc inro Ehe ílreet, and walked like amad-man wichoue fenfe
or judgment, n~y<:;r'th1nki11g
co
,cake _Sanétuary in che Church, bue walked open–
]y ~n tne fireet~ tmva¡ds
Sr.
Fra!'.cifco,
where ·was a Convenc Eafi-ward from che
great Church ; neitber did he cake refuge there, bue W·andring through a ftreee on
the lefc hand, he'mqde,a fiop ar_the place where a;Foundation was laid for che
Coñvént of St.
,c;¡~e,;
andina lictle Alley chereabouts he mee cwo young Gencle–
men, Jtinfmen
to
Ro_drigo de
Pmedq/
ro whom he faid, hide
1
me, hide me, with–
oué being able
~o
fay gne word rnQr~, bue lool!:ed like a man franrick and out of
his
,wits. The G~nJl~rnen, who knew his dif,onr~nt, and his delire of revenge
5
~sked him, Whether he had ,killed
Efquivel?
To which
Aguire
an(wered, Yes,
hide me, hide me.
1 J
Theq che Genclemen carried him into the Hou[e of a Kinf–
man of theirs where were thr~~ ba~k yards, in che farchermoíl: of which there
was
a
kind
of a
Stie. where they fatted cheir Hogs and Poulrery at che time of
year, and there rhey ,concealed him, ordering hirn by no means
to
go out of thaé
place, .or íh~w
hís
heªd abroad.
As
to che back yar~s, they fecured chem in that
manner:ihat no
Jndilins
íhould go .in, having no bufinefs to
sf
oe there ; and they
told him, that he íhould noc neecl to take care for V.iétua!s
1
for they would make
a
provifion for him,: ';Vhich they ac;:cording\y <lid, for dining and fupping_always
in che Houfe of their Kinfman, chey would privacely ac every mea!
ílip
Bread and
Meac into their Pockets; with which, upon precence ofgoing to che back-fide on
their neceífary occafions, they relieved chis poor
Aguire
in bis Hog-íl:ie, and in
this manner they fed and maintained him
far
the [pace of forcy,days.
So
foon as che Mayoi: or Governour heard of che deaeh of
Efquivel
he commah–
ded che Bells to be rüng out ; and che
lndians
of
Cannaris
were fet for Guards and
Sentinels ac the Gates of che Cicy, and at che door of the Omvenrs; and Proclama–
tion was made, thae no man íhould go out of che Cicy without a Pafs.or Licenfe
obtained from che Governour, and fearch was made in all Convems, and che
corners of them, that nothing could be more diligencly performed, unlefs rhey
would have pulled them down. This Watch and
W
ard continued in che Ciry
for thircy days,' wichout the leélíl: news of
Aguire,
as if he had been fonk under
ground. At lengrh, wearied with a fruitlefs fearch, che Sentinels and Guards
were taken off from che CiEy;
bue
howfoever a Warch 1,,vas continued on che
High-ways, and maintained wích a ílriét examination of all thac paífed. At che
end of forty days, theíe Gemlemen, called
Santiflan
and
Catamw,
boch of noble
extraétion, ( wirh whom
I
was acquainted, and met one of chem in
Seville
when
I
arrived fuíl: in
Spain)
thought
fir
to free themfelves from che danger which rhey
incurred by concealing
Aguire;
for they knew thac che Judge was a fevere man,
and would have no merey on them in cafe the matcer were difcovered; whereup-
. on they agreed c0 carry him publickly out of che Cicy, and noc by any prívate
conveyance ; the manner was chis, rhey fhaved ~is head and hi~ beard, and wa–
íhed his facei head, neck, hands and Arms, and from top to toe, and cl~an[ed
.him wich water, .and chen [meared him over with afore of wild Fruir, caUed by
the
Jndians Vitoc,
which is not good to eat, or for any other purpo[e onely dies
with thac black lme, that being left on for three or, four days, and afrerwards
wafhed over chree or
four
rimes more, ic leaves a black deeper chan that ofan
Ethiopian,
and which will not be wafhed off again with any water, umill ic be- .
gins to wear away, which it
wlll
<loe in éen days time, and then
will
waíh off
wich che rine of chat which gives che cinéture:
In
chis manner they coloured chis
wretch
Aguire,
and clothed him in poor habic, like a Counrrey
Nef!.~oe;
and with
chis difguife chey went out openly aboac noon day through che pubhck fireecs and
Market-place, with che
Negroe Aguire
marching before tbem with a Gun on his
,Shoulders, and one of che Mafters carried another before him on che Pomel of
bis
Saddle, and che other hada
Hawk
oo his
fiíl,
as
if
they
had
been-going after
·
·
their