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.

.Í3ooK VI. ·Royal Commentaries. Authour, who afterwards proceeds as follows. When Don García perceived, fairh he that he had but a fhort time to live, he defired to be admitted t.o coníelfton; and when {ohn Ortiz.. de C(;("rate carne in to fee him, he befeeched him, rhat fince he was fhortly to die, he would intercede for him to have one .days tim 1 e to re- coHeet himfelf, and coníider pf his fins, for that he was a young mao, and had been a great finner. At that iníl~nt Baltafar Ve/az:,quez. entred che Chamber, and· without fuffering f9hn Ortiz.. fo much as to fpeak, he commanded him to void che Room, and told Don Garcia that be bad .but an hours time given him to live, which he was to make ufe of for preparation of bis Soul: <1nd being in confeílion, he often admoniíhed him to difpatch ;· and before he had done, he rhrew the Cord about his Neck, which he drew fo hard chat it brake; and then applying another Rape, ·which he fuppofed too ílow in doing execurion, he dre1y om his Sword and cut his Throat and Head off therewirh; whith being do ne, [ohn de Ortiz, clothed him in his Burial Shrouds, and caufed him to be int.err.ed. .-The like fort of Jufüce rhey paífed upbn orhers, not admitting any of .rhem to confeflion,' nor to any legal proceed ings, ·leíl: at che Tribunal of Juíl:ice, they fhould have im- peached them to have' been che chief and original Plotters and Conrrivers of chis Rebellion. Thus far Die,~o Hernandez., Chap. 19. who a litrle before difcourfing of chis macter fairh as follows: It was the great Maíl:er-piece of ali rheir policy, to put men to death wichout giving them time to confeís, leíl: tbey fhould accu[e them and difcover their Plors and Treacheries; and as to chofe in whom they had ;ny confidence of being fecret and faithfull to che deíigns, they would keep in hand and encourage, allowing them time. to be gone and make rheir efcape ; which chey aéted by rraverfing Juíl:ice to that ftde and party whereumo rheir own intereíl: moíl: chiefly direéted. Herewith Diego Hernandez, concludes his eighteenth Chapter; and with much reafon deteíl:s che abominable praél:ices, cruelties and creacheries which rhefe men aéted upon their beíl: and moíl: intimare Friends: for they were the wretches who had defigned and contrived rhe death of Pedro de Him;jofa, and haq above three years hefore refolved to kili him, in cafe he fhould refu[e to become their Head and chief Commander in their imended Rebellion. And then afterwards rhe vil- lany and barbarous cruelty of thefe meo is not to be expreífed ; who killed chofe who knew their wickedneís, and caufed themfelves tó be eletl:ed Judges and chief Magiíl:rates, to condernn chofe whom they had caufed to fin and rendred guilty of all chofe murthers and bloudy crueléies which they had plotted and contrived. But Heaven found them out at laíl: and punifhed them according to rheir demerit, as we (hall fee hereafrer. · CH A P. XXVII. . Of 'what happened in Potocfi. Egas de Guzman i;.s drawn and qua_rtered. Other outrages are comfJÚtlf{d by the Soul- ' diers. Many brave menare put to death. Cozco arms againfi the Rebels. T Hefe and many orhers were the horrible ~nd execrable Villanies which paf. fed in rhe Ciry of Plate : and now we fhall proceed to whac was committed in Potocji, where they robbed ali che Treafure belonging to his Majeíl:y, which ~~·as fo great and vaíl: a fum that it arnoumed to a million and a half of pieces of Eighr, which ali vanifhed to nothing, and never was there one fa rrhing of it re- covered; for it was taken away after che deach of Hernando de .A/varado, his Maje- íly's Accompram-General, who~ Antonio de Luxan, having made himfelf Chief Juílice of rhat Town and pares thereumo belonging, had fenrenced to die, and as he weilt to Execmion he publifhed bis Crime to have been, rhat he had fided with the General Pedro de Hinojofa, with intenrion to rai[e all che Kingdom in arms againíl: