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B.ÓOK

·VII .

Royal

Commentaries.

of bis

r-Jo'.·fe,

l~t loo/e his Rein, and fpu rred after him in full fpeed ; bue

liis

Horfe bemg fa rnr, aod low, he wa¡¡ too far engaged to get off, and

was

hiai–

felf raken.

they were carrying him away Prifoner he told them t hat h-:

~ad promifed the Jt1fi:ices not

recurn without a Prilo,oer of the

bdl

qualic y

arnongft che Enemy, and for thac reafon he had gi ven chafe to che

Sa1

jearu:

Major.

which faying fomeofthe prouddt ofthem we1e

ío

offended, thac

~hey protefted º?t to fi&ht, unhSs

Randona

was·firft puc to Death, for thac fuch

rnfolent and danng Perlons as thefe, ought no.eco be

foftered

to live. Hereupon

they imtl)ediately committed him to the Tent of

A /varado

the Lawyer, andad–

vifed him to~ake his C:onfeffion ; and

!ª

che mean rime

Alonfo Gonfalez.

kept che

door, to adv1fethern mcafe

Hemandez.

fhould pafs by, that they mighc kill

him before he could come to incerpofe bis Authoricy :

Toledo

che Law–

yer, Advocate Genéral to

Hernandez.,

and Captain

Ruybarba

prevailed with

Hernt4ndez.,

to fpare

Randona,

aad grane him bis

Life.

To which he alfenced,

and

token thereoffent his Glovesby the Meffenger, whocari·ied che Pardon.

Alonfo Gonfalez.

having incimation, chat the

Aét

of Grace was'comiag, he ea–

ter'd iato the Tent, and charged the Prieft to make an end of his Work, for

he would not ftay longer ; whereupon rhe Father haíl:oing the Abfolutioh, fo

foon as it was ended,

Gonp;i/ez,

cut offhis Head with a greac Knife; which having ·

done, he wentout ofche Tent, faying, That he had made good the word of

chis Jittle Marquefs, who had promi[ed che Juftices, to bri11g the Head of an E–

nemy,

or to leave his own with them: and caufing his Body to be drawn out,

it was expofed to publick vie'.V, to th:: great trouble of many of the. Speétators,

but moreefpecially to the forrow of his friends in the King'sCámp, when the

news thereof was made kaown to them.

This

Randona,

as we have faid, was a rafh Souldier, more Couragious than

Wife : his Horfo was very good, but he ufed him

ill,

being always on bis back,

fhewing how well he could prance, and carvet ; _which was the reafon, as

Pa–

lentino

faith, that he

tail'd

him, when he had mofl: u[e of his Service.

e may

fee alfo how wife he was to tell the Enemy what he had promifed to the Jufü–

c;es ; upon 'which the Ex.ecutioner General

Alonfo Gon¡alez.

took occafion to exer

:–

cife

bis Cruelty,

Palentino

on thefe paffages proceeds and

fays,

That the

Jn·

ftices fent feveral Pardons to particular Perfons, by the hands of

Negers,

and

Jndian

Domdtick Servants.; who continually palfed between both Camps, c~r–

ryingint!elligence from one to the other,

all

which were brought to

Hernandez.,

who caufed them to be publickly cryed, and with Scorn añd Contempt declared

as infigniñcant and of no value: Moreover they cuí: off che Hands and

ofes of

thofe who qrought them, and tyecl them abouc their

ecks, aad in that manoer

returned chem

the King's Camp agaia. Thus

far

thi!i Author, and therewith

hes:oncludes tbis Chapter.

A P.

XXVI.

The

t~eacherous prafüces

of fome faÍfe

Sou!diers.

Piedrahita

gives an Allarm

to the

K1ng'

s Arm!.

Hernandez

r:fo!ves

give Battel to

the

Juflices,

and

what manner

was

prevented

them.

Uch

Affron.ts

as thefe were daily off.:red to his Majeíl:ies Camp, during all

the time that

Francifco Hernandez.,

was lodged in

Pucara:

or [caree a day

paffed without forne remarkable difadvantage to the King's Forces, who con~

rinually loft Men, Horfes, and Arms:

or many of th~ Soul_diers _being _of

Mutinous and Sedicious cemper, and falfe and perfidious

líl

the1r deahng_s,

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