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BOOK
VIII.
Royal
Con1me11taries.
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CH AP.
VII.
In what
'nutner
the Vice-King treated thofe who
111ade
den1and
for reward
of
their late
Services;
and how
by
the
Advice
of
unjuft and
ill-n'!tured Counfellours he banifbed
thirty
feven
of
them into
Spain.
P
.Alentino
in another part of the Second Chapter before mentioned., fpeak–
ing of the
Vice ·
King., faith as
follows,
All the Cannon, Mufquets, and
other Arms which
~ere
in the City he got.,
an~_
lodged in his own Houfe., up–
on pretence of Fefhvals, and occafion of ReJ01c10gs . . After he had done this?
and fecured other matters, he repealed all the Commiffions and Pardons which
the Juftices had given ; which ftruck a
terror
and awe upon the minds of
di–
vers Captains and Souldiers; and with fome inconfiderable gratification he re–
warded others for their Services : Howfoever., underfranding that many of
thefe men were piqued, and
f
poke fome words which founded not
w
11, he ap–
prehended feveral of them within the Precincts of his own Court., and
imm~diately fent them away to
Ltma
under a
fafe
Guard; giving out., that he fent
fome of them for
Spain,
to the intent that
they
might be rewarded there
by
his
Majefty; fince that
Per1t
could
not
confer Gratifications
on
them ag-r eable
to
their Merits: and that he fenc others of them, that they might receive
punifh–
ment for
their Infolence: And when fome advifed him to fend the Informations
againft
them,
and the Proceffes
judicially
made in their caufe, together with
their perfons into
Spain:
He refufed to do
it,
faying,
that he intended to in–
tercede
with his Majefty in
their behalf,
fo
that they
might receive rewards
and
Honours, rather
than be the
Attorney
General
to
implead them.
But in regard this
Author
hath exprelfed feveral
paifages of
this Hiftory
in
a
dark; obfcure, and confufed
manner,
we
fball
endeavour to elucidate them
more
dearly,
and in an Hiftorical manner declare every thing methodically as
it
paffed. And firft, as to that point
which this
Author mentions about taking
away
Arms
by
the Vice-king: we muft know, that before the coming of
the Vice-king, the Juftkes had given orders to the Govei=ponrs in their re–
fpeCtive Jurifditl:ions to feize on all the Arms
they
could find -; -and -according–
ly
my
Father publifued this th ir
Command
by
common outcry;- and in obedi–
ence thereunto., many Gentlemen and Souldicrs of good Reputation., who wer
Loyal to his
Majefty,
brought in their l\1ufquets and other _Arms ;
but
the com–
mon People., and foch as were
ill
affell:ed would not bring them in, unlefs they
wer e purcbafed with
Mony,
or for fome confideration, either of tbemfelves or
Friends : for which reafon my Mafter
Garpilnjfo
acquaintea the Lords of the
Royal Chancery with this particular., giving them to underftand, that thi ·
courfe was rather prejudicial than advantagious
to
bis Majefty, for that his
Fri nds would
by
that means be di farmed., and his Enemies guarded with their
Weapons
by
them. And upon this confideration
it
was.,
that
the Juftices gave
orders privately, to have the Arms reftorcd to their refpective
owners;
which
accordingly was done: And this is what paffed about the Arms., of which thjs
A
uthot
f-p
aks.
And as to Repealing, and Revoking thofe Pardons which the
Juftices gave to thofe who had followed the Faction of
Hernandez.-?
it was done
in order to bring
thofe
perfons to
J
uftice, in the manner before fpecified.
And
as to
the
fatisfaCtion he fpeaks
of~
which the Vice-King gave to divers perfons,
as well Captains as Souldiers., for a gramity and r eward of their paft Services :
The truth was this, He did make offer to fome of thofe pretenders of a Gra–
tification3 but in a mean kind., apd much inferiour to their
Qgalities
and Me–
rits; aod with condition, and under provifo? that they fhould imm diately
marry, and take Wives of thofe
Spanijh
Women., who were lately come over;
it
being according to his Majefties Inftructions., and
fo
ordained for conferva–
tion of
the
publick peace and quietnefs of the Land :
~~
nd in order hereunto
th Vice-King aligned to feveral of the Pretenders, fuch and'foch Women for
V ives,
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