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A42257	The royal commentaries of Peru, in two parts the first part, treating of the original of their Incas or kings, of their idolatry, of their laws and government both in peace and war, of the reigns and conquests of the Incas, with many other particulars relating to their empire and policies before such time as the Spaniards invaded their countries : the second part, describing the manner by which that new world was conquered by the Spaniards : also the civil wars between the Piçarrists and the Almagrians, occasioned by quarrels arising about the division of that land, of the rise and fall of rebels, and other particulars contained in that history : illustrated with sculptures / written originally in Spanish by the Inca Garcilasso de la Vega ; and rendered into English by Sir Paul Rycaut, Kt.; Comentarios reales de los Incas. English	Vega, Garcilaso de la, 1539-1616.; Rycaut, Paul, Sir, 1628-1700.	1688 (1688)	Wing G215; ESTC R2511	1,405,751	1,082

and give me leave not to believe you for it is impossible you should be without Bullets The Souldier finding himself thus urged in truth Sir said he upon the word of a Souldier I have but three● Oh Sir answered Carvajal did not I tell you that your Worship being the man you were taken for could not be without Bullets and therefore I desire you to lend me one of your three to bestow upon another and then kill me to day a Bird with one of the two remaining and a man with the other on the day of the Fight and then I will require you to shoot no more By this saying Carvajal would give us to understand that if every Musquetier could but kill his man the Victory would be secure and certain But howsoever he largely supplied the Souldier with Ammunition and Arms as he did all the others who had occasion of Powder and Bullet in this pleasant manner he treated with his Friends but when he came to deal with his Enemies he treated them at another rate with all gravity caution and reservedness required Another quaint saying of his was expressed to his Musquetiers in sight of the Enemy when he advised them to level their Arms from the Girdle downwards and not from the Breast to the Head upwards For look you Gentlemen said he Bullets are apt to rise and that which misses though but two Fingers breadth is lost and cannot doe execution but that which flies low and grazes ten paces off may yet have some effect And in case you wound your Enemy either in the Thighs or Legs he must fall and become disabled when on the contrary a man may receive a shot either in his Arm or Body unless the wound be mortal he may yet continue fighting Upon this ground and for this reason he ordered his Musquetiers not to fire above a hundred paces distant from the Enemy which as Carate saith did such cruel and terrible execution that in the first ranks of Captains and Ensigns and in the eleven files which were in the Van before them these remained not ten men found all being killed or wounded which was a sad case and much to be lamented In like manner these Shot gauled the Horse very much of which Alonso de Mendoça and Jeronimo de Villegas were Captains so that ten or twelve of the Cavaliers were dismounted and amongst them was one Carrera whom we have formerly mentioned One of the Colonels named Luys de Ribera considering that in case the Horsemen were detached by degrees and ordered to charge the Foot they would all be killed one after the other before they could be able to come up to the Enemy and therefore Orders were given that they should charge Piçarro's Horse who seeing the Enemy coming upon them kept their ground and stirred not one step forward as the Lieutenant General had directed that the Musquetiers might not lose their Shot nor advantage of their Vollies as the Enemy came up to them but when he saw that Centeno's Horse had passed the right wing of the Foot he then advanced thirty paces forward to receive the charge of the Enemy Centeno's Horse riding upon a full trot over-bore Piçarro's Horse and trampled and trod them under foot as if they had been so many Sheep so that as Historians agree and I with them Men and Horse were overthrown and scarce ten Men of all their numbers remained who were not dismounted One of these thus hardly beset was Gonçalo Piçarro himself who being single and divided from his Company hastened up to join with his Foot. But being known by three Cavaliers of chief note they fell upon him with intent to kill him or take him prisoner one of them was called Francisco de Vlloa another Michael de Vergara and the other Gonçalo Silvestre This latter assailed Piçarro on the right side Vergara on the left and Vlloa joined with Vergara These two came up so closely to Piçarro that they gave him many Stabs under the Ribs but good Arms defended him Michael de Vergara made a loud Out● cry and said This Traytor Piçarro is my prize and my prisoner In this manner they all four pursued him till he came up to the Foot but the Horse on which Gonçalo Silvestre rode most troubled and endangered him for being a nimble Horse and in a full carriere he came so close up to him that Silvestre took hold of the Horse's pectoral and stopped him in his course which when Piçarro perceived he turned about his body to him and with a short Cutlace which was hanged with a Ribon on the wrist of his right hand he gave three Cuts upon his Horse one of which lighted upon his Nose and cut off his Lips so as the Teeth were laid bare upon one side another Cut he gave him over the Nostrils and the third took him over the hollow of his right eye though without hurt to his sight And this Piçarro performed with so little concernment as if he had been engaged in sports of the Ring or other Feats of Arms. And this very story I heard from Gonçalo Silvestre himself who often amongst other particulars of this Battel recounted this passage and the same I have heard confirmed by divers others And that all four of them pursued him up to his body of the Foot. CHAP. XX. The Story of the cruel Battel of Huarina is farther continued several Feats of Arms performed therein The Victory is gained by Piçarro WHEN the Souldiers saw him coming they knew him to be Piçarro and charged with their Pikes to receive and defend him Silvestre perceiving that he had not wounded Piçarro with all the Stabs he had given him on his sides he stopped his hand and gave a Cut on the Blade-bone of his Horse's Shoulder but the wound was so inconsiderable that after these matters had passed and the Wars were at an end this particular was scarce judged worthy to be mentioned lest it should accuse his Arm of faintness and want of strength but this small wound was again returned by Piçarro's Souldiers who sallying forth to kill those who pursued him wounded Silvestre's Horse in the head with a Lance which made him rise up on end and then another with his Lance ran Silvestre himself through both his Arms the Horse with the smart of his Wounds floundred and tumbled on all four with the force of which the head of the Lance broke off in his Arms but howsoever the Horse bounsing up carried off his Master with more danger than what is here expressed But Michael de Vergara was more unfortunate for he in the heat of his Fury fansying that the Traytor Piçarro was his prisoner pursued him within three or four files of the Enemy where they knocked him down and cut both him and his horse into pieces Nor did Francisco de Vlloa succeed better for as he was turning his horse to escape a Musquetier clapt the nose of his Gun on the reins of his Back

that brought it and detained them Prisoners saying That to the Marquis and not to him they ought to notifie their instructions not being authorized or empowred to act any thing without his Orders And though Garçilasso de la Vega Peralvarez Holguin Gomez de Tordoya and other principal Officers were of opinion that they ought to be set free and liberty given them to intimate their Message to the Marquis himself for that in all parts of the World even amongst the most barbarous Nations the Persons of Ambassadours were always privileged and freed from Molestations and Arrests whatsoever That this course would serve to augment and enflame the heats of passion which were kindled between the Governours rather than to allay and appease them That it was a hard case that those who had gained that Empire and were in hopes to enjoy the fruits of their labours in peace and quietness should now quarrel and kill each other when they came to share and divide the prey That he should consider with what infamy the relation of this Story would be received in the World when it should come to be known that on the force of particular interests a civil and intestine War was begun amongst them But Alonso de Alvarado being far from being moved by these reasons adhered to his own opinion incited by a natural obstinacy to the great discontentment of his people who were desirous to enjoy the Riches of Peru in peace and in an amicable correspondence which they had acquired at the cost and expence of much bloud and of incessant labours and turmoils full of danger CHAP. XXXIV The Battel of the River Amancay and the Imprisonment of Alonso de Alvarado and his Souldiers NOT long after the Ambassadours were departed from Cozco Almagro followed them out of the City and finding that they did not return in their due time he retired again to the City where he remained with some trouble and anxiety of mind suspecting the evil which had befallen them for he was very sensible both that Alonso de Alvarado had much a better Army than his and that he was not well assured of the fidelity of the people with him of which many had belonged to Hernando Piçarro and might probably change the side and colours at the appearance of the Enemy for which reason it was not judged convenient to carry them into the Field with them And moreover he believed that there could be no good designs towards him in regard that a detention or seizure had been made of his Messengers Whilst Almagro was thus divided in his thoughts and fears he received a Letter from Captain Pedro de Lerma who as we have said before being much disgusted with the Marquis and judging this to be a convenient opportunity to revenge himself gave intimation to Almagro of his own just resentments on score of the unhandsome usage he had received from Piçarro and hereunto adding the perfidious treatment exercised towards his Ambassadours which was a barbarous Act and disowned by the greatest part of his people he invited him to advance against the Forces under the Command of Alvarado assuring him that upon his appearance above a hundred of his friends would join with him and secure him of happy success with much facility and honour and that he doubted not but to bring over the whole party to his side and interest being entirely dissatisfied with the proceedings of Alvarado their Captain Upon these Advices Diego de Almagro in the space of fifteen Days fitted and provided himself with all matters necessary for this Enterprise and departed from Cozco in search of Alonso de Alvarado and in his way he took Alvarez Holguin who was sent out upon a party to make discovery and learn something of the proceedings of Almagro but was betrayed by his own Men who had been suborned and instructed by Pedro de Lerma as also the greatest number of those who remained were engaged in the Conspiracy So soon as Alonso de Alvarado was informed that Alvarez Holguin was taken he suspected Pedro de Lerma and would have seized him for as Gomara saith he had uttered some suspicious words as that he was of Burgos and was well acquainted with the humour of Alvarado but Pedro de Lerma being advised of the secret intentions of Alvarado towards him escaped away with several friends in a kind of open manner for such was the affection and interest he had with the Souldiery that had he had onely four Days time to have worked his designs he had carried the whole Army with him And now to accomplish his Plot he counselled Almagro to make all speed and haste possible for that his Victory consisted in expedition of which he might be well assured for that he had already secured the Affections of the people towards him And as to the Rules which were to be observed in the management of this affair he directed him the manner how the time when and the place where he was to assault him the time was to be at Night when Darkness covers the guilt of Traytours and he in Person was their guide to the Bridge where many of the Conspiratours were attending in expectation of them and the Horse were ordered to pass the River which was not so deep but that they might foard or wade it over without danger Having these Hopes and Expectations of Victory they marched forward on the other side the Captains and Officers of Alvarado issued out Orders for the Fight and for Defence but were not obeyed for it was night and most of them engaged in the Conspiracy the Horsemen pretended that their Lances were stoln from them and cast into the River the Infantry complained that their Muskets Cross-bows and Pikes were hidden and laid aside so that none obeyed the Command of their Captains but every one was in confusion and followed his own Fancy Those that were appointed to defend the River and secure the Bridge instead of repulsing the Enemy directed them where they might pass with most ease and security and in regard it was night so that the Almagrians could not discover the fordable places the Party on the other side directed and guided them over and those at the Bridge invited and assured them that they might pass without fear By these means Don Diego de Almagro obtained a Victory and took Alonso de Alvarado Garcilasso de la Vega Gomez de Tordoya and Captain Villalva Prisoners with other Captains and Officers of the Army with about an hundred common Souldiers who refused to enter into the Conspiracy all which was performed without the loss of one Man either killed or wounded on either side onely Rodrigo de Orgonnos paid for all having his Teeth beaten out by an unlucky Stone thrown at randome from a sling no Man knows how nor from whence it came Thus Almagro and his Souldiers returned victorious and triumphant unto Cozco giving out Words of Scorn and Contempt against the Piçarros as that they

Brother of the Agitant Yllen Suarez took the side of Piçarro and was there present with thirty men under his command all of his own Kindred and Relations In this posture was the Army of Piçarro when news came that the Enemy was come within two leagues of the Camp whereupon they marched and took possession of a Pass on the River where the Vice-king was to go over for there was no other way and being there Piçarro posted and fortified himself very advantageously which happened as Augustine Carate reports on Saturday the fifteenth day of January 1546. The Vice-king charged Pedro de Puelles with great courage in hopes speedily to rout him and afterwards to deal in like manner with Piçarro for he always entertained an opinion of the loyalty of the people that they onely expected an opportunity to revolt and return to obedience and service of his Majesty In confidence whereof he approached so near to the Forces of Pedro de Puelles that the Van-guards could speak and call each other Traitours and Rebels for both Parties pretended loyalty and duty to his Majesty and yet all this time the Vice-king was not informed that Gonçalo Piçarro was so near but believed all the time that he had to deal with none but Pedro de Puelles The night following about the glimpse of the Evening Carate reports in the thirty fifth Chapter of his fifth Book That the Vice-king holding a Council of War with his Commanders it was there agreed as most advantageous and of less danger to get possession of the Town than to adventure a Battel in the open Field and accordingly before mid-night quietly and without noise they marched away leaving their Camp and Tents with the Indians who carried them and taking the way on the left hand they marched over a great Desart and Fernando Palentino says that it rained all night that they passed many rocky places and great Rivers so that many times their Horses were forced to take a rounding way by the side of steep Mountains and coming to the bottom they plunged into Rivers in which manner having marched all the night they lost several Men and Horses who were so disabled and left behind that they could not come time enough to the Battel and so soon as it was day they found themselves within a league of Quitu Thus far are the words of Palentino The reason which moved the Vice-king to take this troublesome march was in design to charge the Enemy in the Rere but as Carate saith he did not believe that either the way was so bad nor so long for when he moved his Camp he was not then above three leagues from Quitu and yet with the compass they took it proved at least eight leagues this errour was fatal to the Vice-king for whereas he should rather have kept his Men and Horse fresh and fit for engagement they were instead thereof so harassed and tried with their long march of eight leagues over Desarts and unpassable places that they had need of long rest and repose to recover them but where a misfortune and destiny is intended the Counsels which are designed for good are converted to ruine and destruction CHAP. XXXIV The Battel of Quitu wherein the Vice-king Blasco Nunnez was defeated and slain THE Vice-king entring into the City of Quitu found no resistance and there it was told him by a certain Woman that Piçarro was marching against him at which he wondred much but was soon made to understand the fraud and strategeme by which he was decoyed into that snare On the other side Gonçalo Piçarro knew nothing of the march of the Vice-king to Quitu but believed all the time that he had remained in his Camp but when in the morning the Scouts came near the Tents and hearing little or no noise they adventured in and understood from the Indians of all matters which had passed and accordingly gave information thereof to Gonçalo Piçarro who was not wanting to send the news to his Captains who immediately raised their Camp and marched in an orderly posture to Quitu with intention to give Battel to the Vice-king in what place soever they should meet him The Vice-king was not ignorant of all these matters and considering the great advantage which his Enemies had over him and that there was no security but in his Arms he resolved to hazard all upon the fortune of a Battel hoping that such as were true Servants and faithfull Subjects to his Majesty would revolt over to his side and so animating his people with these expectations he marched with his Forces out of the City and both sides were so full of courage as if they had been secure of Victory and though Gonçalo Piçarro had the greater advantage in his numbers yet the Vice-king was equal to him in the Valour and Conduct of his Captains all men of great spirit and renown those who commanded the Infantry were Sancho Sanchez d' Avila his Cousin John Cabrera and Francis Sanchez his Captains of Horse were Admiral Sebastian de Belalcaçar Cepeda and Pedro de Bassan and so both Armies marched to meet each other At the first a skirmish was begun by two parties of Musketiers detached from each Army in which the people of Piçarro had the advantage by the strength and goodness of their Powder and by the use of their Fire-arms being the better Marks-men by this time both Armies were come so near to each other that the detached Parties were forced to retreat to their respective Colours to make which good on Piçarro's side John de Acosta with another able Souldier called Paez de Sottomayor came in to bring their Party off Then Gonçalo Piçarro commanded Licenciado Carvajal to charge the right Wing of the Enemy and he himself designed to lead and bring up the Horse in the Front but his Captains dissuaded him from it and rather desired him to place himself within a Squadron of Foot where with seven or eight other Commanders he might better oversee and govern the battel The Vice-king's Troops of Horse consisting of about a hundred and fourty men observing that the Troops of Carvajal were coming up to charge them they put themselves on a Trot to meet them but so without rank or order that they seemed as Carate says of them to be half routed before they came to engage and a file of Musquetiers so galled them in the flank that though Carvajal's party was less in number yet the Vice-king's Horse were so harassed and tyred and the Enemy on the contrary fresh and in courage that Carvajal had great advantage over them Howsoever engaging first with their Lances many fell on both sides and at length fighting nearer with their Swords and Daggers Pole-axes and Hooks the battel grew hot and bloudy but then Picarro's Standard supported with about a hundred men coming in quite turned the scale of the battel and the Enemy routed and totally defeated On the other side the fight

his principles he resolved to come and claim a reward for his Services of which the Marshal having intimation he gave it out that he had a power in his Commission to gratifie all those who had had a hand in the death of Don Sebastian and had been instrumental in suppressing Rebels and that there was a particular Clause impowring him to confer the Estate and Indians formerly belonging to Alonso de Mendoça upon Basco de Godinez and John Ramon This rumour being published abroad Alonso Velazquez was dispatched away with some Orders and Instructions for Potocsi and with a particular Warrant to take and apprehend Basco Godinez though it was commonly given out that he carried a power to invest Godinez in an Estate and Lordship over Indians Thus far Diego Hernandez in the Chapter before mentioned Basco Godinez being then at the City of Plate received a Letter from a Kinsman of his that Alonso Velazquez was bringing the Order of the Justices to confer on him the Estate of Alonso de Mendoça at which Godinez seemed much offended and angry that it was not the Estate of the General Pedro de Hinojosa which he had before allotted and appropriated to himself by his own power and arbitrary pleasure of which when he read the Letter he greatly complained to those who were then present but they moderated his passion a little by telling him that these were good beginnings and that he was in a fair way to better his fortunes but he stormed and raged like a mad man as did other Souldiers then with him who entertaining an overweening opinion of their own merits pretended to the best and the most opulent Estates in all Peru. Soon after Godinez had received this feigned news in a Letter which was never intended for him Alonso Velazquez arrived at the City of Plate and being accompanied with some Friends of his he went directly to the Lodging of Basco Godinez and saluted him with the usual forms of ceremony and complement to which he returned a surly kind of an answer and looked very sullen and melancholy because all Peru was not conferred upon him for a reward of his deserts But not to suffer him to proceed farther in such vain imaginations as these Alonso Velazquez delivered him a Letter from the Marshal with others which were feigned to amuse him a while with vain hopes but whilst he was attent in reading them Alonso Velazquez laid hold on his Arme and said Senior Godinez you are my Prisoner with which he being much surprised he asked him by what Warrant Velazquez as Diego Hernandez says made answer that he charged him to go with him to a certain place where he would shew him by what authority No said Godinez let these persons present see your Orders and Warrant and afterwards we shall resolve to doe what is requisite in the case Then Velazquez with more choler and heat than before told him plainly that he would not capitulate with him but charged him without farther dispute to go with him and using some violence drew him into the Prison and as he was going Godinez desperately tore his Beard with his hand and listed his eyes to Heaven which some seeing comforted him and advised him to patience in regard that by this imprisonment the Justice of his Cause and the signal Services he had done his Majesty would more eminently appear But Godinez replied onely with Oaths and Curses and that the Devils would now fetch him who had reserved him to that unhappy time In short Velazquez clapt him up into close Prison with Chains and Manacles and committed him to the custody of a strong Guard and immediately wrote away to the Marshal giving advice of what had passed who speedily coming to Potocsi seised on many Souldiers and Inhabitants intending to bring them to condign punishment And in the first place he made Process against Martin de Robles Gomez de Solis and Martin de Almendras and others allowing them to make their legal defence and bring their witnesses and such proofs as were conducing to their discharge and herein especially he indulged the Citizens and those who had Plantations in the Countrey affording them a large time to make their defence most of which were saved by prolongations and delays rather than acquitted by the Sentence of Justice as will hereafter appear Thus far Diego Hernandez who therewith ends this Chapter In the conclusion of which he seems to have received his information from some person prepossessed with a prejudice against the Gentlemen who had Estates and were Lords of Vassals in Peru or perhaps he himself was so for he lays no crime to the charge of those against whom the Marshal proceeded but rather excuses them and says that the Rebels seised on Gomez de Solis and Martin de Almendras and that Martin de Robles escaped from them in his Shirt And yet after this he says that their lives were rather saved by prolongations and delays than acquitted by the course of Justice which shews him guilty of an apparent partiality as we shall observe in many passages for the future CHAP. XXIX The Judge puts many of the Rebels to death in the City of Peace and in the Village of Potocsi others were whipped and sent to the Gallies the like Justice he doth in the City of Plate The Sentence and Execution of Basco de Godinez THE Marshal began now to exercise his power in punishment of the Rebels in the City of Peace where he had erected a Court of Justice all the Prisoners sent him by Pedro de Enciso taken in the great Lake and other parts he condemned some of them were hanged others beheaded some were whipped and others sent to the Gallies so that all of them received their just reward From the City of Peace the Marshal travelled to Potocsi where he found many Prisoners of those Bravoes and Hectors that belonged to Egas de Guzman and Don Sebastian de Castilla on whom he executed the same justice as on the former as namely some were hanged and others beheaded whipped and sent to the Gallies He apprehended the person of Hernan Perez de Peragua who was Commissary-General and accused for holding a correspondence as we have said before with Don Sebastian to whom he wrote a Letter to send twenty Musquetiers to take him that he might not seem to surrender himself but in regard he was a Knight of the Habit of St. John or a Knight of Malta they confiscated the Plantation and Indians which he possessed in the City of Plate and sent his Person under a secure Guard to the Master of Malta These Sessions being ended at Potocsi the Marshal went to the City of Plate where Basco Godinez remained a Prisoner with several as brave Souldiers and men of note as any were within those Provinces on all which they executed the Sentence of the Law as before on those in Potocsi and in the City of Plate but very few were condemned to the Gallies by

with him for the safety of his life and freedom telling him that he was obliged to return thanks to Almighty God for this great deliverance to which the Souldier made answer and said that he rendred thanks to his Divine Majesty and to St. Peter and to St. Paul and to St. Francisco Hernandez Giron by whose merits and means he had been saved and that he could not doe less in acknowledgment thereof than to go and serve him the which he accordingly did as we shall see hereafter Besides this Souldier above forty more were delivered out of prison most of which would have been sentenced to dye and others at least condemned to row in the Gallies which was the best they could expect but those Citizens and Souldiers who were not so deeply concerned as others the Marshal was pleased to set at Liberty without any farther process but these prisoners refused to accept thereof but to be brought to their Tryal as Palentino saith Chapter the fortieth in these words Some of the Prisoners understanding that they were to be set at liberty without tryal refused to accept thereof without a sentence in their cause because they became liable thereby to be taken up again and punished when the Judges or their Enemies were desirous to accuse them wherefore to make dispatch in this matter he fined Gomez de Solis in five hundred pieces of Eight to be paid as Fees to his Keeper and Guards Martin de Almendras had the like Fine as also Martin de Robles others were condemned in two hundred a hundred fifty and twenty pieces of Eight proportioning the Fine according to the ability of the person rather than to the degree and quality of his Crime Thus far Diego Hernandez Moreover the Marshal gave order to provide Arms and to make Pikes in those Provinces where wood was plenty and to make Powder in case necessity should require Some few days afterwards came two Commands from the Justices the one suspending the execution of the Decrees formerly made for freeing the Indians from their personal services which was to last for the space of two years and to take off many other things which caused great Commotions and Disturbances amongst the Inhabitants and Souldiers of that Empire and had been as the Governours well knew the spring and original of those rebellions mutinies and factions which raged in the minds of the people the other Command was a Commission constituting the Marshal Captain General of the Forces raised against Francisco Hernandez and with an unlimited power to expend his Majesty's Treasure in this War as far as occasion should require and to borrow or take up money in case the Exchequer should fail By virtue hereof the Marshal appointed Captains both of Horse and Foot besides other Officers whom we shall name hereafter He designed to make Gomez de Alvarado his Lieutenant General but he refused it because another Gentleman who was brother to the Marshal's Wife pretended thereunto called Don Martin de Avendanno for whom the Wife made great instance and as it were compelled her Husband much against his own inclinations to conser it upon him and though he was a young man and of little or no experience he condescended thereunto rather than to raise War in his own Family He also dispatched Warrants and Orders to the Curacas to gather what provisions they were able and to appoint eight or nine thousand Indians to carry the baggage of the Army He sent also into several parts to raise Men Horse and Arms and to take up all the Slaves they could find And here we will leave them in these Preparations to see what becomes of Francisco Hernandez and what he is acting and carry on the business of both Parties as the method of History requires Whilst these things were in agitation in the City of Los Reyes and Potocsi Hernandez was not negligent of what concerned his interest but ordered Thomas Vazquez with a squadron of about fifty Souldiers well armed to march to the City of Arequepa and in his name to take the possession thereof and to treat peaceably with the Citizens letting them know that the Corporation of Cozco had made choice of him to be Captain General and chief Justiciary of all the Kingdom In like manner he sent Francisco Nunnez a Citizen of Cozco to Huamanca whom he had enticed by fair and flattering promises and with the Command of a Troop of Horse to be of his Party though in truth fear rather than all his favours induced him thereunto and with him John Gavilan was sent with fourty other Souldiers whose Orders and Instructions were the same with those of Thomas Vazquez and that moreover they should tell the City that though they had assured him already by their Ambassadours that they would join and correspond with him in all his designs yet for farther confirmation thereof he required them to call a Court to ratify their former engagement and to own and acknowledge him in that Sphere and Station wherein he acted The truth is Hernandez sent and employed these two Captains out of a design to give reputation to his cause by the specious colour of union between him and two Cities rather than from any expectation he had of bringing them over to his side and party for he was not ignorant that they had already retracted their former assurances and repented of the Offers they formerly made him Besides the Commissions and Instructions given to these Captains he delivered letters to them for particular persons who were men of power and interest in their Countrey also Letters from himself and from the City of Cozco to the Corporations of those Cities desiring them to join with them in this cause which was for the common good and welfare of the whole Empire He also caused the City of Cozco to write unto the City of Plate in the same manner and to the same effect as to the other Cities and Hernandez himself wrote Letters to many Planters in the Charcas and to the Marshal Alonso de Alvarado and to his Wife Donna Anna de Velasco the substance and Contents of which was so ridiculous as served onely for sport and laughter and were not thought worthy of an Answer He that hath the Curiosity to reade them may find them in the History of Diego de Hernandez Chap. 27. CHAP. VII The Justices nominate Officers for the War. The several Pretenders to the Command of Captain General Francisco Hernandez leaves Cozco and marches against the Justices NEWS coming to Los Reyes that Francisco Hernandez increased daily in men reputation and authority the Justices thought it time to appoint their Captains and Officers for the War. Paulo de Meneses was named for Lieutenant General and Don Antonio de Ribera Diego de Mora Melchior Verdugo a Knight of the habit of St. James and Don Pedro de Cabrera were made Captains of Horse but the two last refused this Preserment as too mean for men who had so

within the space of six hours afterwards Thus in despair the Captains and most considerate of the Souldiers prepared themselves though there were some who taking their measures from the numbers and looking upon themselves as twelve hundred to four hundred or three hundred and fifty were so certain of success as if the Enemy had been already in their hands but these did not consider the difficulties of the way or that they had a deep and rapid River to pass nor the turnings and windings and narrow passages before they could come at the Enemy whereby their Horse would become useless and that nothing but their Fire-arms could serve of which the Rebels were well provided and their Souldiers such excellent Marks men that they could kill a small Bird with a single Bullet amongst which there were some of mongrel race between Spaniards and Indians and particularly one called Granado of the Countrey of Mexico who had taught the rest that could shoot either upon Rests or at Arms length as they pleased Moreover it was certainly believed that Hernandez compounded his Powder with a certain sort of Poison for the Chirurgeons reported that the wounds made by the Rebels Gun-shot though never so slight were incurable and which was contrary to the nature of such wounds which are always more easily cured than those which are made by Lance or Sword or Halbert or such like Weapons but notwithstanding all these difficulties engage they must which cost many a man his life to the defeat and ruine of the whole Army CHAP. XVII The Marshal draws up his Men in order of Battel Francisco Hernandez does the like in defence of himself The several Assaults that were made The death of many principal persons IT was presently after mid-day when the Marshal gave the signal for the Battel and having drawn up the Souldiers in their several Companies he gave orders to Captain Martin de Robles with his Company of Musquetiers to march to the left and attack the Enemy on that side the Captains Martin de Olmos and John Ramon were commanded with their Forces to march to the right and to make the on-set together at the same time when they heard the Trumpet sound which was to be the signal for the Assault the rest of the Infantry with all the Horse were commanded to descend by a very narrow passage there being no other way than that to go down unto the River which having passed they were to draw up in a little Plain and then in a Body to attack the Enemy with all the fury possible Francisco Hernandez who from his station observed all this motion of the Enemy and that they were disposed to assault them in three several places called to his Souldiers and said Now Gentlemen we must either conquer or die for the Enemy is coming upon us with all their fury Hereupon a certain Souldier of good experience in the War whom Hernandez and his men called Colonel Villalva perceiving that the General and his Souldiers seemed somewhat cold and desponding bid them as Palentino reports to be of good courage for that the Marshal could never maintain his Order nor was it possible for him to pass the River without being overthrown and that the place where they were posted was so strong as could not be taken by ten thousand men and that all of them must be cut off and perish in the assault with which saying of Villalva Hernandez and his men were greatly encouraged c. And indeed it proved according to the words of the Colonel For Hernandez having drawn up some of his Musquetiers and all his Pikemen in a narrow way commanded by Piedrahita and Sotelo with orders to fight jointly in a Body or separately and to relieve each other as occasion should require Another great Body of above an hundred Musquetiers he divided into several parties of four and six together and lodged them in the close passages and behind Rocks Bushes and Thickets which grew by the River side where was no place to draw up men into a Body but every one must fight by himself singly And thence the Rebels could shoot with a steddy hand resting their Musquets on Bushes or Stumps and Branches of Trees Martin de Robles and his Company of Musquetiers having passed the River esteemed themselves so secure of Victory considering the small number of the Enemy that they pressed hastily to attack them intending to gain the honour of the Victory unto themselves which they did with so much precipitation that they would not stay untill all their men were passed over but attempted the Enemy with the Van or Front onely whilst the rest were wading through the River with water to their middles or to their Breasts and some intent on other matters suffered their Flasks of Powder to be wetted with hanging in the water but others more wary carried their Powder and Musquets on their heads Captain Piedrahita seeing Martin de Robles in such haste and disorder coming to attack him sallied out with great courage and gave him such a volley of shot as killed him several men which drove him and his men back again over the River with which Piedrahita returned very gravely to his former post By this time the Captains Martin de Olmos and John Ramon were come up near to the Fort of Piedrahita who seeing how ill it had passed with Martin de Robles were desirous to repair the disgrace and recover the honour which the other had lost but the Enemy being fleshed and encouraged with the late success received the Assailants with the like Volley as they had done the others and though the fight continued some time yet at length the Victory inclined to Piedrabita and the contrary party forced to retreat to the River many of them being killed and wounded and many of them repassed it again Captain Piedrahita being greatly animated with the success of these two encounters returned to his former station to be in a readiness to apply himself to those parts where necessity most required Now whilst these two misfortunes had befaln the Marshal caused by the hasty precipitation of Martin de Robles who would not attend the signal of the On-set nor the Orders given him the Captains and the other parties of Souldiers descended down to the River and passed it with extraordinary difficulty for in that part the water was so deep that the Infantry wetted both their Powder and their Musquets and the Pikemen lost their Pikes in the stream Now the Musquetiers of Hernandez who as we said before were lodged in Ambushes covered with Rocks Thickets and Caves bordering on the Banks seeing with what difficulty their Enemies were labouring to pass the stream they assailed them within the water and killed many of them in the River before they were able to pass over for shooting with their Musquets on Rests they seldom failed to hit the mark at which they aimed and so many were killed and wounded both in that Pass and