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VI.
C H·A P.
XXV.
Don Sebaílian
and his Ojficers fend Captaim and Souldi–
ers to
kili
the Marefchal;
'John Ramon
commands the
Party, and difarms
Don Garcia
and thofe who fided witb
him: upan which News the very Sou!diers
who
had
ad–
vanced
Don Sebaíhan,
did then murther him.
T
HE fame Authour
Hernandez..
proceeding in the Hiíl-ory, Chapter the
fif.
teemh, faith as follows. They then took the Names, and made a Lifr of
ali thofe who were
to
goe , and ficted and prepared them againíl: the next day,
being Wednefday, furnifhing them with Arms and mounting them on Beaíls
to
carry them. On Wednefday before noon , they accordingly began their march,
namely,
7ohn Ramon, Don Garci Te/lo, Gomez. Mogo/Ion, Gonfafo de Mata, Francifao
de Annanafco, Almanfa ( Hernanao de Soria) Pedro de Caftro, M4teo de Cafta,¡neda,
Campo Frio de Carvajal, 7ohn Nieto, Pedro Francifco de Solú, Baltafar de Efcobedo,
Di–
ego Ma!donado, Pedro de Marguia, Rodrigo de Arev
,11.lo,.(Íntonio Altamirano, Lucena
and
Hermojilla;
who were no fooner out of Town,
butBafeo Godine:t-
gave immediate
:idvice to
Ega1 de Gu~man
of their departure; defüing him
to
fend fome recruics
from che place of his aboad
to
¡ohn Ramon
and
Don Garcia.
The ·Letter which
he
wrote was
to
this effeét.
Brother of mine, and of my heart, Our General hath difpeeded our Brother
Don García
and
John Ramon
to the new Colony or Plantation, to feife on the perfon
of
the good Ma–
refchal; who being takfn or kjlled, there will be an end
of
our Troub!e1 , Jor we /hall then
neither meet with Enemies nor Oppof,tion
;
but the way will be open and eaf,e to our f7iól-orie1•
On thi1 dejign twenty ftve brave Cavaliers are employed of f11ch Valour, that
I
dur.ftengage
them againft al! m11nkjnd: Wherefore, Brother
if
mine, fit 11nd p;·epare ;our
[eljwith foch
Arms asyou can get, and fend fome Forcn from your quarter1 to join with thofe which are
{ent from our General, who told me, ,rindfo
'tú
my Opinion, that it will he a very accepta–
b!e fervice.
lt
iJ
the general fenfe of all'men here, rhat you demonftrated great tendernefs
of fpirit when
)'OH
[parad the
life
of
Gomez de Solis:
the Clemency you /hewed was
fowething extraordinary
,
but nor fo gr:ª'·a1 common Jame would mak! it to be.
So foon as
Egas de Guz.,man
had received this Letter, Orders were raken to
dií–
patch away fifty five men for the affiíl-ence of
Ramon
;
of which
Gabriel de Pernitt
was Captain, and
Alonfo de Ariafa
was En!ign, their Infhuéttpns were to march
as far as the new Plantation, diere
to
join with
¡ohn Ramon:
accordingly thefe
Men were put inro a readinefs, and marched away with flying Colours : in the
number of the[e were
Ordonno de f/,rJencia, Diego de Tapia
the Squint-eyed,
Fran–
cifco de Cha11u
the Moor,
¡ohn de Cepeda, Francifco Pacheco , Pero Her11andez..,
one
of the Confpirators,
Alonfo Marquina, Pedro de Venavides, ¡ohn Marq1tez..
,
Luys
de Eftrada, Melchor Pacho, Antonio de Avila,
with others who completed the num–
ber of fifty five Souldiers. Thus far are the words of
Diego Hernandez...
The Rebellion being now made publick and openly decbred, tho[e very SouI–
diers who plotted the Delign, and had m~de
Don Sebaftian de Caftilla
the Head
ancj General tl1€reof, did now con[pire againíl him and caballed and conrrived to–
gether how they might kili and deílroy him whom but the other day they haden–
gaged in their Treafon, and as it were compelled him
to
be their General and
Commander in Chief: but fo che Fate was, and ir was commonly praétifed by
the Souldiers in that Empire ever Ítoce the Wars of
Gonf,ifo Pifarro,
to
rai[e fome
Tyram or other to be their Leader , and then prefenrly
co
renounce him and kill
him, and pretend ali for bis Majetly's fervice, and in recompence thereof
to
de–
mand fome great Eílate and Lands
to
be given and fetcled upon them.
John de Ra–
mon,
who wich
Don G,11.rcia
was appoimed cbief Captain of the Forces which
were to march to che City of
la Pa:c, ,
there to kili ( as harh been faid) the Ma–
refchal
Alonfo de A/varado
;
was no fooner deparced from che Cicy of Plate, tha~
he be-