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BOOK
VIII.
ROJal
Conznzelltarie
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of
voluntary Banifnment
arnongfr
their
/ndi~w
Vaffo ls ·
And with focb cauri
n
did thefe men live, that during the three
ea: s that m
father
Garfillnffo
de
l.t
Veua
wa Governour of
Coz..co,
l never
faw
them th re, unlef
lt
re
John
pf;dr:tbita
who up n fome extraordinary occafion of bu
fine~.,
can e
by
night to
make
my
Father a
Viut.,
and give
him
a relation of hi! Solitary
Lifo,
but never
in the day time appeared publickly on the plac .
Howfoe er
Alonfo
Di~t:i:..,
who
was a Citizen.,
never
abfent d himfelf from home;
but lived quietly in hi
. own houfe., tho' he had been another of thofe who
had
concerned himfelf in
the Rebellion of
Hernandez...
And this was the truth of this Story.,· which our
• Authour
makes
foch
a ftir about, and would
infinuate
things
fcandalous,
and
offenf1ve
to the Hearers.
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The Vice-King came to the
City
of
~os
Reyes,
in the
Month
of
'July
1557,
where he was received with that Pomp and Grandure which was due to bi
Royal Office, and to the Q!lality of his Perfon, having the title of Marquis
given him from his Lordfhip over Vaffals : for tho> other
Vice~
Kings had been
Marquifes, , et none of them before affumed the Title of
t~eir .
Marquifate,
with relati
to
Indians
who were in va.ffallage to
them.
Eight days after he
had
tfiken
the.Chair ofhis Office, he again renewed his Poifeflion of the Empire,
in tbe Name of King
Philip
the .Second,
to.
whom the , Empero\1r
Charle,s
the
F.fth had
refigned
the Ki.qgdorns, and ·signories which appertained to him.:
.what Motives he had to make this refignation is not
kno~
ti,
but it is believed
that his want of Health, and indifpofition of Body, were the caufe., and that
the
weight of Affairs of State were too
burdebfome_
in that feeble condition.
This exchange of Government
under
the names of two different Kings,
.was
attended
wi~h
all the State., and folemn attendance
that
was required ; the per–
fons prefent, were the Vice-King, the Judges of the Bench., all 'the Officers
Ecclefiaftical., and Civil.,
Don 7eronimo de Loayfa
Arch- Bifhop
of
£os Reyes,
all
the Friers oCthe feveral Convents then in that City, which were four, name–
ly,
that of
our
Lady of the
Merceds,
St.
Francis,
St.
Dominick,
and
St.
Au-
guftine.
The
Ceremony jn
the
Parade.,
and Streets being
over,
they
went
to
the Cathedral Church, where the Arch-bifhop in his Pontifical Habit celebrated
}ligh Mafs. The fame pa1fed in all the othe'r Cities of that Empire., every one
fhewing the great fatisfaetion, and contentment he received on occafion of that
Solemnity, which was celebrated with the Feaft of Bulls, and throwing darts;
and
endeavouring to
out-vie
each other in Gallantry, and richQefs
of
their Li-.
veries ; which is
ftill
the common vanity of that Country.
The Vice...
King
Don Andres Hurtado de Mendofa
having taken poffetlion of
the
Government., difpatched new Officers, and Governours to the feveral
Jurifdietions of
Peru:
Amongft which a certain Lawyer., a Native of
Cuenca,
called
Baptifto Munnoz,
·whom the Vic·e-King.
brought
with him, was feat to
Coz..co.
AltamirarJo
one of his MajeftiesJuftice·s., who
h~d
refofed to follow his
Majdties Army and Standard into the Field, was made Governour of the City
of
Plate
;
other w
ere difpeeded
with
Commiffions
tD
the Cities of
Huamanca,
Areqf'ep~,
and
de ta
P.az..:
where many thi ngs paffed of great importance: We
fhaffgive an accou
nt offome of them in the following Chapter.
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C .HAP. V.
The
Order~
which the Vice-King if
!u.edforth to prevent Mu–
tinies,
;nd
Infitrretiions.
Tho.m
as Vazquez, Piedrahita,
and
Alonfo Diaz,
are put to death for having been engaged
in
the "Rebellion of
Hernandez GJron.
.
P
Alentino.,
in the fecond Chapter of his third part, faith, that fo foon as
the Vice· King entered into the City of
Los Reyes,
that he fee
G~ards
a.ndCentinels on all the ways leading to the feveral Cities of the Empire ;
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orders
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