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judges. They were carried to such a length, that the former 

 was put under arrest, to be sent back to Spain ; but afterwards 

 recovered his hberty and the exercise of his prerogatives. He, 

 as well as his adversaries, met with a tragical end : he fell, by 

 the hand of a negro, in 1546, at the battle of Anaquito. The 

 licentiate Zepeda, having been sent prisoner to Spain by the 

 president Gasca, perished in a jail. Lison De Texada was 

 drowned in the straits of Bahama. Alvarez, in recovering 

 from the wounds infli6led on him at Anaquito, received, at the 

 abode of his companion Zepeda, a mortal bite from a reptile, 

 in a grove of almond trees ; and Zarate was poisoned by cer- 

 tain powders which Gonzalo Pizarro administered to him as a 

 remedy. 



To return to the division between the president and the 

 judges. It originated on their landing at Panama, and be- 

 came generally known on the imprisonment of the former, 

 Blasco, after which event, Zepeda and Zarate took possession 

 of the royal seal. The viceroy having, however, retained 

 Alvarez in his company, and having been furnished with a 

 royal schedule, which imported that an audience might be 

 holden with one or two judges only, ordered a new seal to be 

 opened by one of the regidors of Piura, who was afterwards, 

 on that very account, put to death by Francisco Carvajal. It 

 thus happened, as was observed by the historian Zarate, who 

 was an eye-witness of these contentions, that *' there were 

 two audiences in Peru, the one in the capital of Lima, the 

 other with the viceroy at Piura ; and it frequently occurred, 

 that two provisions, in dire6t opposition to each other, were 

 made in the same affair." 



The audience established at Piura was dissolved by the 



death 



