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BOOK

VIII.

Royal

Com1nenta1 ies.

•

ther

PorraJ,

who had been an

ancie~t lnha~1tant

of the Country, and cne" gr at–

devotes to that Blelfed Evangehft., berng d firou

to c l brace the Fefriva l

of that Saint, was accuftomed every Year to bring a tame Bull with him to the

Proceffion, decked with Garlands, and

compoi&d

of variety

Flowers. In th

year 1556 all the Clergy and Corporation of the City " ith a multitud of

other people coming to fol7mnize

~hi

Feafr, the

~ull

being as tame, and

gentle as

any

Lamb, walked m the m1dft, and went and returned without

any

diftutbance to the P rocdlion. Being come back to the Convent, the Church not

being capable to receive the Multitudes

People which crouded thither, the

Indians

and the mbre common fort, remained without, and made a Lane for

the Proceffion to pafs. The

Spani':i"ds

entered into the Church, leaving a

way to cpme up to the Chancel: Tfie Bull which walked

immediately

before

the Prfefts, in

that

tame and gentle manner, as we have faid before, being

entered

three

or four.

aces wi

thin the Porch of the Church, on a fudden

runs at a

Spaniard

called

Salaz.ar,

and took him up on his Horns, and without:

any hurt to him, tolfed him out at one of the Doors of the Church : The

people affrighted with this unufual rudenefs of the Bull, were put into great

diforder; but the Bull returning gently back, took his place again in the

Proceffion,_

~nd walk~d

up gently to

th~

C_hancel. The people of the City

much adm1nng at this Novelty, and thmk10g that there muft be fomething

than ordinary

the matter, enquired with all diligenc

to difcover the

Myftery

thereof:

And upon a

ftriet

examination

the thing,

was

found that about fix or feven Months b fore, this

Salaz ar

had mafotained a

Law-fuit againft the Church-men, and that he had incurred the Cenfure

Excommunication, and had never been abfolved from

it.

But upon this Acci–

dent he defired Abfohttion, and obtained

it ;

having declared his intention

never more to fall into the like Error of Contumacy again.

I was then in

th~

City,

when this matter palled, and was prefent at the Proceffion, and heard

the Story thereof related more

at large

others,

than we

have done in this

Chapter.

CH AP.

The Marquis of

Cannete

is defignedfor

Vice-King o

·Peru.

Ile _lands upon the

Continent. Several Negers,

Black.ff,

who

were

Fugitives,

are reduced. The burning of

aleon>

with eight hundred people ther.ein.

foon as News was brought to his imperial Majefty then in

Germany,

ofthe

death of the Vice-King

Don Antomo de Mendopa,

he nominated the Count

Palma,

to fucceed

him

in that Employment, but on fome ju

grounds and reafons,

heexcufed himfelf; the like did the Count

de Olivares,

who was unwilling to ac–

cept of that Government. Thofe who lived in the

Indies,

did

believe that the

Great Men, who

w~re

commodious at home, were unwilling to accept an Office

far diftant from

Spain,

and from the Court: Tho' a Vice-King who had re–

fided there for fome time, was ofanother opinion, and faid, that the Govern–

mem: of

Pern

would be the beft

Employment

the King had in his Gifc, were

not fo near to

Madrid,

where the Court refides. His meaning, was the complaints

of the many oppreffions he exercifed on the People, would come foon

to the

Court than he defired. At length his Majefty pitch d upon

Don Andru HHrardo

M endopa,

Marquis of

Cannet e,

and chief Conftable of

CuencA.,

to be his Vice–

King in

Per11,

who having accepted the O ffice,and received bis difpatches., depar–

ted for

Pent.,

and arri ed at

N omhre

de D

ios,

hich he made t he

place of r fid

ence

fo r t he Mini frers of Juftice, and for r.be O ffi cers of the Impe rial Revenue.He there

rewa d d fome of he

Ancient

Conque ro r of the

lfle~

B11rlovenro,

d of

t~e

main