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Royal

Commentariet.

BooK

VI.

them in his Shirr. And yet afrer rhis, he fays, that their lives were rather faveq

by prolongarions and delays, than a~q~itted by the courfe o~ Juíl:ice ; which

{hews him guilcy of an apparenc paruahcy,' as we fhall obferve m rnany paílages.

for the fucure.

CH A P.

XXIX.

The Judge puts

many

tbé Rebels to ·Jeath

.in

thf!

Ciiy

of–

Peace,

and ín

the

Village

Potodi ;

others were whip–

ped and feizt {o

the

Gallies ~·

the

like

Ju/iice he doth

Í1i

-the

ity

Plate.

The

Sente11ce

and

Execution of

Ba–

feo de Godinez.

Maríhal hegan now to ex~rcife bis power

in pu

niíhrnent of che Rebels

in che Ciry of

Pe'ace,

where he had ereéted

Cou.rt

of Jufüce: al! the Pri–

foners fent him by

Pedro de Encifo

taken in the gr

~at Lak

e, and other parts, he

condernned ; fome of chern were hanged, ochers beheaded, fome·were whipped,

and ochers fent to che Gallies,

that all o

fchem

received their juíl reward. From

theCicy of

Peace,

the Maríhal travelledto

'Potoc.ft

, where he found rnany Prífoners

of thofe Bravoes and Heétors that belong

ed to

Eg,u de

Gu:(,man

and

Don Sebáftian

Caftilla;

on whom he executed che farne jufüc~ as on che forrner; as narnely,

forne were hanged, and others beheaded7. whipped and [ene to the Gallies.

ápprehended the perfon of

Hmum

Pere:(.

i:le

Pera;r;ua;

who was Commiífary,Gene-

, tal, and accufed far holding a correfpondence (as we have·faid before) wich

lJo;i

Se_baftian,

whorn he wroce a Letcer to fend cwemy Mufquetiers

cake hirnt

thac he mighc not feem Eo furrender himfelf; but in regard he was

Knighc of

tbe Habit

Sr.

7ohn

or a Knighc of

M alta;

chey confifcared che Plamation and

Jndians

which he poffeífed in the City of

Piare,

and [ene his Perfon under a fecure

Guard to the Maíl:er of

Malta.

Thefe Seílions being ended at

Porocfi,

the Ma~"

fhal wenc

che Cicy of

Piare,

where

Bafeo Godine:(.

remained

Prifo0er, wich fe–

veral as brave Souldiers and meo of note as any were wichin chofe Provinces : on

all which they execuced the Semence of che Law,

befare on chofe in

Potocji

and in che City of

Plate;

bue very few were condemned to che Gallies, by reafon

that

was troublefome and delacory co f

end

them into

Spain

; ,

and befides in rbeir

way cbither- they rnighc find meaos to m

;1.ke

their efcape; as chofe had done who

were cornrnitted to che charge of

Rodri

go N

inno;

far of al! his number, which

were eighcy fix, there was bue one chac arrived in

SeviHe.

We do not undercake

her

e partirnla

rly to

fe't

down che precife number of chofe who were puc to deach

a-nd

whipP.ed

; beiog

rnany thac an exaél: number could noc be kept of rhem,

one

ly a calcu

lare may be rnade of chem ; from che lauer end of

fHHe,

Anno

s- s- 3.,

coche end of

November

of che fame year, when

new lnfurrefüon was begun by

Francifco Hernandez., Giron,

every day was a day of ;\ílife, whereon four, five, or

fix a day were condernned, and che nexc day they were execuced. The which

expe~ition of juílice rnuldnot be avoided, confidering how

ful]

che Prifons wer~,

, and how neceffary a Gaol-deliv~ry was for fecurity of rhe Councrey ; which \Vas

put

into that amazen:ien~and confüfion by che boldnefs and iofolence of che Re–

bels, that no man remained fecure eicher of bis Life or Efiate. Howfoever che

malitious ai;id unthinking people íl:yled the Judge wich che terms of cruel and im–

·placable, and ofanothet

Nero,

who could wirh

little rernorfe and cornpafiion

condemn four or five a d:iy unto death, and thofe of che rnofi principal Souldiers,

and fuch as perhaps had been eicher deceived or enforced

a cornpliance ;

and

yet when he arofe f

rom

che Bench, and was recurning to bis own Houfe, he

could epmcain light

a.nd

indifferent difcourfes laughing and jeíling

with

rhe At–

torney-General, as if

thoí

e who were condemned to die were Capons or Turkies

emred tn aBill of

Fare

ferv~d up at

bisTable.

And fucb

0the-r LibeJs and

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