- Besan las
manos i pies de V. M. sus leales Vasallos, - Hernando de Silva, -
Pedro Picarro, - Lucas Martinez, - Gomez de Leon, - Hernando de
Torre, - Lope de Alarcon, - Juan de Arves, - Juan Flores, - Juan
Ramirez, - Alonso Buelte, - Melchior de Cervantes, - Martin
Lopez, - Juan Crespo, - Francisco Pinto, - Alonso Rodriguez
Picado
No. XIV
Process Containing The Sentence Of Death Passed On Gonzalo
Pizarro, At Xaquixaguana, April 9, 1548.
[This instrument is taken from the original manuscript of
Zarate's Chronicle, which is still preserved at Simancas. Munoz
has made several extracts from this Ms., showing that Zarate's
history, in its printed form, underwent considerable alteration,
both in regard to its facts, and the style of its execution. The
printed copy is prepared with more consideration; various
circumstances, too frankly detailed in the original, are
suppressed; and the style and disposition of the work show
altogether a more fastidious and practised hand. These
circumstances have led Munoz to suppose that the Chronicle was
submitted to the revision of some more experienced writer, before
its publication; and a correspondence which the critic afterwards
found in the Escurial, between Zarate and Florian d' Ocampo,
leads to the inference that the latter historian did this kind
office for the former. But whatever the published work may have
gained as a literary composition, as a book of reference and
authority it falls behind its predecessor, which seems to have
come without much premeditation from the author, or, at least,
without much calculation of consequences.
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