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CH AP.
I.
How
the
Indjans ·
and
Spaniards
celebrated
the Fefliva!
of the moft
Holy
Sacrament at
Cozco.
.A.
relation of
a quarrel which the
Indians
had
on
that
occafion.
S
ince the
Method
of Hiftory requires,
that
every
thing
illould
be
related
·
in its due time and place.,
we
fhall here
at
the beginning of this
eigll~
Book,
defcribe
two
particular paffages which happened in
Coz..co
after
the
Wars
with
Francifco
Hernanaez,
were ended, and before
~he
arrival
of the Vice-King, whofe Prefence was inftantly defired, and expected in that
Kingdom.
One of thofe
Matters,
which according to this
rule,
we are to
mention,
is the
pqmpous
and folemn celebration
of
that Feftival, which We
Catholicks
call,
Corpus Chrifti.,
performed
in
the
City
of
Co~co.
After thofe
Wars
were ended, whkh the Devil had raifed
to
obftruct the
increafe anci
· propaWcltion of
the
Holj"
Gofpel ;
the
laft of which was that
of
Prancifco Her–
nandez Giron.,
and may
God
in his
Mercy
grant,
that it may frill be
the
laft.,
and
fucceeded
by
n~
other of that N atute.
The
Solemnity o f
that
Feftival
is
now obferved with
as much m?gnificence.,
and perhaps
with'.
more,
than
at that time : 'for
thQfe
Wars were concluded at the
end
of the
year
15
54, and we
are
now
in
the year
i
61 -1,
from which time t•o
this
prefent in
which we
are
writing this Chapter,
fifty
feven
yeats
have palled of
Peace
and
Tranquility.
My
iptention
is
only
to
write
the Hiftories of thofe times,
and
to
leave the
fucceffes
of
the prefe nt .t o
the
Jabour
of
other
Pens :
In
thofe
day~
the re
were about 80 Citizens, or men
of
Eftates in
Co~co,
who
wer e all G ntk·
men
of
Noble Rank and Extrat\:ion;
for:
by
the .Name of Citizens we
underftand thofe
who
had
Lands
given tliem.,
with
I 77dianJ
belonging
there–
unto
fubject d
to
them
in vaffalage.
Every one
of
thefe
Gentlemen
with great Cu riofity adorned his Chair., or
Sedan,
which his
Indian
Val–
fals were to carry on the day of Fefti val ;
the Ornaments
thereof
were
Fringes.,
and
E mbroideries of
Silk
and
Gold,
a ~d
ftudded
with Erne –
rolds, and other
Precious Stones;
therein
were
placed
the Image of
our
Lord,
or
Lady.,
or fome other Saint or Saintels., according to
t he
devoti–
on
of
the
Spaniard ,
or
I nd ian.,
whofe care it was to
drefs
up the Sedans ;
which were fo rne thiog
like thofe, which the
Co~ fraternities
ufe in
Sp.ain
upon fuch Fectivals..
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