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B
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VII.
Royal Cammentaries.
intercellion of the Friends and ttelations of
Hernandei:. Giran
in their behalf.
pre~ai~ed for_them~ and obcained th:ir Pardon. Among{l: the many
Evils
and
lmp1ettes which th1s
A/varado
commrtted by order and direltion of his Gene–
ral in
t!ais
Cicy of
Coz.ca;
ic was none ofthe leafr, thai in
a
Sacrilegious manner
he robbed the Cathedral Church, and the Monafteries of the.J3ells belonging
to
them. For from the Convent of our Lady of the
Merceds,
they took one of
their cwo Bells, from the
Dominicans
they did tl:Íe like; but from the Convent
of St.
francis
they took none, becaufe they had but one, which at the earnefi:
intreaty of the Friers, they were perfwaded to leave. From the Cathedral,
out·of five Bells they took only. two, and would have taken them ali, had not
nhe Bifhop with his Clergy appeared
in
their defence, and thundered out bis .
Curfes and Excommunic-{ltioos againft them ; for the
Bells
of the Cathedral
were very great, and had been bleffed and confecrated by thc; Hands of the Bi–
fhop with Chrifm and holy Oyl. Of thefe four Bells they founded fix pieces of
Cannon, ooe of which burft upon the tryal ; and upon the biggeft of their Guns
they impreft the word
LIBER
Tl~, wbich was the plaufible name they gave
for a pretence of their Rebellion. Thefe
G
uns -which were made of hallowe~
· and fanél:ified Metal~ did never do any fe.rvice, nor was any Man killed thcre..
by, as we (hall fee hereafter. Befides tbís piece of Sacriledge, tbis Lord Licu-
.tenant committed feveral Robberies and Spoils úpon the Eftates of thofe w~o
were fled, and ofthofe who were killed at the Battel of
Chuquinca,
and
had the
reputation of being rich, becaufe they were better Husbands, and óot
fo
prodi–
ga! as others who lived _ip that City; and who, as
ic
was believed, had man
y
Bars of Silver in their poffeffion :
Alv,n:ado
by bis lnduftry, and by threats and
menaces affrighted the lndians.into a difrovery of two Pits which
Alonfo de
Mefa
had made in the Garden of bis Hou[e ; from each of which they drew
out fixty Bars
of
Silver, every Bar being of tbe value of Three hundred
Du–
cats.
_I
my: felf had the fortune to fee them taken out, for the Houfe of
A–
lonfo
de
Mcfa
being in the middle of the Street where
my
Father's Houfe
is,
1
m:nt thither at the fhout they made upon the difcovery of
fo
great a prize.
Sorne few days after they took away from the Indians, belonging to
'john de
Saa'Uedra,
an hundred and .fifty Sheep of that Cou·ntrey, ladea with thrée hun–
dred Bars of Silver, ali of the fame fize ·and value with the others. And now
it
was
believed, that thé reafon why this
'john de Saavedra
would not fly out
of
the Cicy the night on which
Hernandcz.
began his Rebellion, as my Father and
others would have perfwaded
91m,
was to conceal and fecure his great qtianti–
ty
of
Silver, which was thecapfe heloft both that and his Life with it.
The.fetwo parcels
of
Silvei:, aecordi~g to the ufual valuation, amounced unto a hun–
dred' twenty
fix
thouland Caftilian Ducats, of three hundred feventy five Mara–
vedís to each Oucat. And tbough
Palentino
faith, That
Diego Ortiz..
de
Guz.man
had fome fhare in the lofs thereof; for my part,
1
muft
fay,
That
I
knew nothing
of it, nor did
I
ever hear, that any other was concerned befides the two before
mencioned.
·
CH A ·P.
XXI.
Of the Rohbery committed by
Antonio ~~rrill~,.and
óf
the 11lan•
:
ner of
bis
Death. The fucce/fes oj
P1edrah1ta
at
Ar~quepa ;
the Viélory which- was
1
obtained
by
means of the ditferences
which arofe there.
N
Or had the Sargeant Major
Carrillo
·been leís notorious for bis Robberies
(had his Life continued) than werc thofe be~o~e named; ~or _he facked
and plundered the new Plantauon, and che other Cltl_es of che Drfl:nq of
G_ol–
laruwi
·
and in. a very few days he plundered the Caciques of that Junfd1ébon
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