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VI.

Roya{

Commentariet.

fcandalous Speeches were vented againíl: the 0overnment, that ir had been well

if Laws had been made ro refirain che exceíles and libercy of malitious and viru-,

lene Tongues.

the month of

O[fober

of che fame year (as

Diego Hernande:t

faich)

BafeoGoái–

ne:t

was charged and arraigned of many héirious ancl crying offences; which are

[pecified in che Senrence paífed on him, for which he wascondemned

be drawri

and quarcered. And

is certaih that the Maríhal .,vas troubled that he could noc

meet wich

Baltafar Ve!a:tque:t

(who was·góile

Lima)

for had he been found hé

,would have incurred the fame puniíhment chac

Godinn

had dene,

&c.

The de–

claration of the Crimes of

Bafeo Godine:t

were tontained in a few words; proclar

m'ed by che Executioner ; which were cbefe;

Thu

man having been a Traitour

God, to

I<ing, and

Friends,

fcntmced to be dr--ar:rn and q

uarter

ed.

Tbe which

faying is

full and pichy, chat ir conrains as muchas can be fa.id or wroce-in ma~

ny Chapters. And chus did the feverity of

ufüce pafs on che Oifenders, uncill

cowards che end of

November

(as we have faid;) when news cóming of a new Re–

bellion rai[ed by

Francifco Her;ande:t Giron,

aíl:op' w:i.s giyen to farther proceedings

again!l che reíl: of che imprifoned Souldiers: which feemed to happen opporcune–

ly, chat rhe fear of a fecond Rebellion might moderare and allay

ihe

fevericy ex:

ercifed againíl: che

firfr.

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The

Indians

Couo

prognofücated chis Rebellion openly an_d loudly in' thé

·screecs, as I heard and faw 1py felf: Far d1e Eve before che Fefhval of the mofr

Holy Sacramenc, I being chen a'youth, went out to

[ee

how che cwo Marker-

. places of the ·City were adomed; for at that time che Proceffion paífed through

no ocher Streets but thofe; though fince that time, as I am told, che perambula–

tion

double as far as before. And being then at che córner of rhe great Chapel

of our Lady of che

Mowds,

abouc an hour or two befare day, I faw a Corneé

dart from the Eaíl: fide of the Cicy towards che Mountains of rhe

Antis,

greac

and clear that it enlightned all places rnund with more fplendour than a full Moori

at midnighc.

Its

motion was direél:ly downwards, its form was globular, and

its'

dimenfion as bigas a large Tower

and coming near che ground, it divided into

feveral fparks and íl:reams of fire ; and was ~ccompanied \.Vith a Thunder

low

and near as firuck many deaf with the clap, and ran from Eaíl: to Weíl:: which

when the

Jndians

heard and faw, they ali cried out with one voic~,

Auca,

ÁHca,

Auc11,

which !igrtifies in their Language, as much as to fay,

'ljrant; Traito11r,

-Rehel;

and every thing that rnay be amibuted t0 a violen~ and bloucly Traicour, as

wé

have befare rnentioned. This happened on the nineceench of

[íme

in che

yeat

when the Feaíl: of our Lord was celebrated ; and chis prognoíl:ication whicH

the

Indians

rnade, was accompliíhed on the thirteemh of

November

in che famé

year, when

Francifc.o Hernandn Giron

began

Rebellion, whkh we íhall relate id

the following Book

The

E~zd

the Sixth

8ook:

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