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.

, ... ··:1·" Royal Commentaries. BooK VI. them in his Shirr. And yet afcer rhis, he fays, that their lives were rather faveq by prolongarions· and delays, than a~q~itted by the courfe o~ Juíl:ice ; which fhews ·him guilty of an apparent paruahty, 1 as we íhall obferve m rnany paífages for the fucure. \ / CH A P. XXIX. The Judge puts many of tbé Rebels to ·death .i11 thf! Ciiy of - Peace, and ín the Village @f Potodi ; others were whip- ped and {eizt !º the Gatlies : the like Juflice he doth in -1he City of.Plate. The Sente11ce and Execution of Ba- feo de Godinez. T HE Maríhal hegan now to ex~rcife bis power ifl punifhment of the Rebels . in che Ciry 0f Pellce, where he had ereéted a Court of Jufüce: ali the Pri- foners fent him by Pedro de Encifo taken in the great Lake, and otfuer parts, he condemned ; fome of them were hanged, others beheaded, fome·were whipped, and others fent to rhe Gallies, lo that ali of rhem received cheir juíl: reward. From the City of Peace, the Maríhal travelled to'Potocft, where he found many Prífoners 0f chofe Bravoes and Heétors that belonge.d to EgM de Gu~man and Don Seh1ftian de Cafti/la; on whom he executed the fame jufüc~ as on the former; as narnely, fome were hanged, and orhers beheaded?. whipped and fent ro rhe Gallies. He ápprehended the perfon of Herrum Pere~ de Pera¡;u11.1, who was Commiífary-Gene- ' tal, and accufed for holding a correfpondeilce (as we have·faid beforn) wich lJo;i Se_baftian, to whom he wrote a Letter to fend twemy Mufquetiers co cake hirnt that he might not feem Eo furrender himfelf; but in regard he was a Knight of the Habit of Sr. [ohn or a Knight of M alta; they confifcared che Plantation aad Jndiam which he poffeífed in che City of Piare, and fenc his Perfon under a fecure Guard to the Maíl:er of Malta. Thefe Seffüms being ended at Potocfi, the Ma~­ fhal went to che City of Plate, where Bafeo Godine~ remained a Prifo0er, with fe- veral as brave Souldiers and men of note as any were within chofe Provinces : oa all which they execmed rhe Semence of che Law, as before on chofe in Potocji and in che City of Plate; bm very few were condemned to tbe Gallies, by reafoa that it was croublefome and delarory to fend rhem into Spain ; , and befides in rheir way thicher- they rnight find meaos ro make their efcape; as chofe had done who were comrnitted to che charge of Rodrigo Ninno; for of all his number, which were eighcy fix, there was but one thac arrived in SeviHe. We do not undercake here particularly to fe't down the precife number of chofe who were puc ro death and whipp,ed ; beiog fo many that an exaéE number could not be kept of rhelll) onely a calculate may be made of them ; from che latter end of {ur1e, Anno 1 553., to the enq of November of the fame year, when a new lnfurrefüon was begun by Francifco Hernandez, Gir;on , every day was a day of Affife, whereon four, five, or fix a day were condemned, and the next day they were executed. The which expeoition of juílice couldnot be avoided, confidering how foil rhe Prif~ms were-, . and how neceífary a Gaol-deliv~ry was for fecurity of rhe Countrey ; which \Vas put into thac amazen:ien~and confüfion by rhe bolduefs and infolence of che Re- bels, thac no man remained fecure eicher of his Life or Eíl:ate. Howfoever che malitious ai;id unthinking people fiyled che Judge wich che cerms of cruel and im- ·placable, and of anothei: Nero, wh0 could wich fo little remorfe and compaffion condemn four or five a d:iy unto death, and thofe of che mofi principal Souldiers, and fuch as perhaps had been either deceived or enforced co a compliance ; and yet when he arofe from the Bench, and was returning to bis own Houfe, he could eptenain light and indifferent difcourfes laughing and jeíling with rhe At- torney-General, as if thofe who were condemned to die were Capons or Turkies emred in aBill of Far.e to be ferve,d up at hisTable. .And fucb ~)[hfr LibeJs añd · fcanda-