The royal commentaries of Peru : in two parts / written originally in spanish by the Inca Garcilasso de la Vega; rendred into english by sir Paul Rycaut.

R.üjal ~ommentar~~f. BooK V. committed againft God, tbe King and his neighbours. The .fame day F;1ncifco de Carvajal was exec.uted i h~ w~s drawn and quart~re~; and .h1s quarters 91ípofed of in divers places aoout the City of Co::.co: bue h1s Head w.t~h ch11t of Pif_arro s was carried to Lima: and Pifarro's houfe likewife in that City was demolillied, and · the ground íl:rewed with Salt , with a Motto or lnfcription fec thereupon. This carvajal, from che time that he was taken, to the time that he was execuced, íhew- ed as Iittle fear and. apprehenfion; and was as little concerned at che approach of death, as hC had been at any time of his greaceft profpericy: for when che fen- cence was declared to him , he received it without any alteration or change in his countenance; and faid, 'Tis no matter, han but dye: That <lay in the morning C11rv11jal asked how many had been executed ; and when it was cold him, that none had been as yet; he faid, your Lord Prefident is a very mercifull Prince, for if che formne of che day had been ours, 1 íbould at one fitting have difpofed of che quarters of nine hundred men. He .was hardly perfuaded to come to confet: íion, for he told chem; chat he had confefied lacely ; and wh~n they talked to him· of refüturion, he laughed aloud ; faymg, chat he had nothmg to fay .as to. that poin t; and fw ore that he mved _noching to any perfon, unlefs haff a Royal to a Trip e-wpm.an who lives at,the G~te of .Arm~l in Sevile, wh!ch debe he maqe at the t ime when he remained there m expe&uon of a paífage mto che Jndies ; be- ing on che hurdle to b~ dravvn_and crouaed into a Hamper infiead. of a large Flaf: ket ; he faid , Children and Old men are put into Cradles : and being come to the place ofexecution, the people crouded fo to fee him, that che H.ang·man had not room to doe bis duty ; and thereupon he called to them , and faid ; Gentle- men, _pray give che Officer place to doe Juftice. fo fine, he died more like a brave Roman than a good Chrifiian. Thus far Palentino, whofe relation feems to be grounded on che report of fome perfons who haced C11M1ajal for che evil he had done them , and not being able to wreak their.anger on bis perfon, would fatisfic their revenge upon his fame and reputation. c ·H A P. XL. What Francifco de Carvajalfaid and did on the day of his Jeath, añd what account Authours give of his condition and sf<j/fu/nefs in War. ·BU 't rtow to return to whac this Authoµr (aid. le is not to be hefieved, that a Biíhop fo religious as he of Couo wa5, íhould eicher in publick or in fecrec firike an old man of eighcy.four years of age ; nor is it l'robable thae Diego Cenu- 110 who was a diícreet and judicious pe~fon íhould offer bis fervice with fo much complement as is reponed, to a man whom he knew would be execuced in a few · hours. Nor Cé!.n we think that Franci/co de Carvajal, ofwhom all Writers give the charaéter .of a fober, difcreet perfon; and in tefümony thereof publiíh many of bis wife· and fentencious fayings , íbould utcer fuch vile and unfeemly ~reffions as are before related: Nor yet are thefe ílories to be fathered on the Auchour, who no doubt heard and received them in the City, where chey were framed a'nd ven- ted, and may properly país for Shams, which are lyes formed and coloured to pafs for truths. For Francifco de Carvajal did not diílemble bis knowledge of Centeno, but difcourfed wich him, as is mentioned ;, and 1 am well affared thereoffrom the reílimopy oftthofe who that very day were prefent at th\: meeting of thefe perfons. And diotigh Gomara, in Chap.187. confums almoíl che fame, yet it is wich fo litcle difference, that 'cis probable Palentino took it from his Narrative. For fo it was, that a Souldier of principal rank amongfl: .rhofe of Peru, coming into Spain, foon afcer Gimar11's Hiílory was publiíhed , ac~idemally mee wich diis Authour in che Streets , and having fome difcourfe wich füm upon feveral paífages , he asked him how he durfi advencure to print fo manifell a lye, when no fuch thing paífed ; and · chereunto