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Royal
Commentaries.
BOOK
VIII.
it h
He "a"dcx_
6
sron
in
hi
"b llon ; and
t
edu
ed the Prince who
was Heir
to
th
Empire
un~o
the Ser
vie~, ~nd
<?bedience
of
his
<:atholick'Majefty; which
'
re all g reat thing ., and of htgh unportance: He
in
the next place
raifed
ft
nding ore s of Horfe and Foot, to fccur e the Empire in peace, and to de-
nd t he Pow
r
of
the
Courts of Juftice,· and
his
O\J\
n
Perfon.
The Horfemen
he all d Lane s, and
t~
Footmt.n Mufqueceers_; to
ev~ry
Lance
~e
affigned a
P
nfion o
a thoufand Pieces of Eight a year,
with
condmon to maintain him–
fc
lf.,
Horfe, and Arms., without other charge, the which were
70
in number:
The Mufqueteer were to be
200.,
at five hundred pieces of Eight a
year,
who
were to be at all times in a
rcadine~,
and
to maintain
and keep their Mufquets
and oth r Arms bright and well fixed.
Thefe men were to be chofen out of
thofe who were of approved Loyalty., and faithfulnefs to the Service of his
Majell:y, t ho' many gave them a different Charaeter, and termed them Perfons,
who,
if
t hey
had had their due,had been fit only
for
the Gallies,having been actu–
a lly ngaged in the RebeJlions of
H ernan4ez..
Giron,
and
Don
Sebajlian de Caffilla,
an d
ho for
the
Murder they had committed, and the blood they had fpilt in
private quar rels among
ft
th mfel ves, had often deferved the Gallows ; but
all
as fmoth red up, and
the Vice-Ki ng'
Commands cbe}ed: And
now the Kingdom being quiet, and freed of thofc
fears to
which
it was
fub je ed by
t he
Seditions and Mutinies
of
a company of rafh and rebellious
Souldier ;
the Vice-King bended his thoug hts towards publick Edifices, and
to matt rs of good Government: And at l ifure hours he paffi d his time in
honeft Pl afo r s,
and innocent Recreations! And herein
he
a~
much diver–
ted by an
l ndum
Boy
of about
1+
or
1)
years of Age,
ho pretended to
be
a
J
fter, and of a very facetious and pl afa nt Humour; He was prefeoted to
the Vice-King, who took great d light co
h
ar
him
talk, and utt
r
hts little
impertin ncies, part in the
Indum.,
and part in
a
corrupted
Spanifh
Tongue ;
and particularly, when he
ould
fay
your Exe llency; be would
fay
your Pe–
ftilency, which made the Vic
~Ki ng
laug h heartily; and
fome
then in Com–
pany, who joyned in laughter with him, would fay that that Title was more
correfponding to him than the other,
if
it
were rightly confidered, how great.
a
Plague and Peftilence he had been to thofe whom he had kil1ed, and to their
Children whofe
ftates he had onfi fcated : and to thofe whom he banifhed out
of
Pe-,,.u,
and font them into
Spain,
Poor,
N
ak
d,
and Forlorn, horn
it
had been
a Mercy to have killed,
rat her than to hav
treated in thac inhumane man–
ner. And
wit:h
fuch refleltions
as
thefe, evil Tongues afperfed all the actions
of
the Vice-King,
as
if
Rigour
and
Severity were not agreeable
to the Nature
ahd Conftitutions of the People of
Peru.
Amidfr thefe various Revolutions of good and bad Fortune
within
this
Kingdom,
the Marfhal
Alon
fa
de A lvarado,
after a long and tedious Sicknefs
contracted by Grief and Melancholly, dyed: For after the defeat which
he
recei ved
at
the Batt
l
of
Chuquinca
.,
he fc.arcel y enjoyed an hour
of
contentment, but pin
d,
and macerated away ,
till
the Lamp of his Life
was
totally
extinguilhed :
And
becaufe
the manner of his
D
ath
was fomething extraordinary,
'cw
ill
not be impertinent to recount
it
in
this
place , which
was
thus. When he
was in
his
laft
Agony of death, and
ready to give up the Ghoft,
they removed him out of his Bed, and laid him
upon a Carpet in the fame Chamber, and by him a Crofs made in Alhes,
according
to
the Cuftom
of
the
Knights of St.
Jago,
or
St.
c:JameJ:
And
having layen a lhort time upqn
the Carpet, he
feemed to revive, and
come to himfelf ;
fo
that they returned him again to his Bed ; where
after a lhort time falling into a like
fit,
his Attendants laid him out on the
Carpet
in the
fame
manner as before; and then coming out of
his
Leipo•
thymy, and feeming better,
was
again
laid
into his Bed ;
and
fo
between
the
Carpet., and the Bed, Ile continued
for
the fpace of forty days, to the
great labour and trouble of his Servants, until at length he breathed his
laft.
A
fhort time
afterwards his eldeft Son dyed, by whofe deceafe the
Eftate.,
which defcended to him from
his
Father,
came
to devolve to
the
Crown
:
But his Majefty, confidering the great Services which the Madbal
had done., was pleafed to continue ic to his
fecond
Son :
which
was a
fa–
vour granted to
very
few
'in
tbat
Empire..
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