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vr1.
Royal
Commentaries.
The death of
Don Alonfo de Alvarado,
was fecondcd
by
t
1at
of
'John 7 1dio
de
Ho1eda,
a Noble
perfon.,
and
one
o the Ahcient
Conqu
ro urs, and
one
0
the Prime Citizens., and of the firfl: Rank in
Coz..co
:
He wa married to
Don–
na Leonora
de
Tordoya,,
Niece to
Garptla.lfo
de
{a
Vega~
being
Daughrer
to
h i
Eldeft Brother,
by
whom
be
had
D'on Gomez:.. de Tordoya,
who
was Heir
to
his
Efr te. Some few Months afterwards dyed
my
Lord and Father
Garfilaffo de
la Vega.,
after
...a
long ficknefs of two years and
a
half, with
f<
veral intervals
and changes: For feeming once pcrfeetly cured, he mounted on horfe-back
and
went into the
City,,
as one
in
good and
found
h alth;
and
thus
con:
tinuing
for
the fpace of three or
four
Month~,
his
illnefs
returned upon
him
again,. and confined
him
for as long a time to his Chamber;. :where he
r~mained
until the tirne of his Deceafe ; and, according to his laft Will and
Teftament,
he
was
buried
in
the Convent of St.
Frt:incis.
In
thofe days
it
was the Cuftom
to make very folemn
Funer~ls,
carrying
the Corps three times round the
Parade,
or publick place; and for every
turn
which
was made, a high Pedeftal was raifed, whereon to repofethe Body.,
whilft the Refponfes were finging ; and then anothet ftand was erected in the
Church.,
whereon
to
\py
the Corps., tJuring the time whilft they celebrated
the
Office
for
the
Dead. But in regard, that before all thefe
Ceremonies
could be
performed~
it
was tedious., an'd
troublefome to
the Prieft and
People; It was ordered
by
Garfila{[o,,
that the former punctillio's lhould be
omitted, and that his Body lhould be laid on a Carpet, with a black Cloth
6ver
it,
without Pedeftals., or Staqds,, which were troublefome., and charge–
able to ereet ;
which being
accordingly
obferved,,
as he had directed : All
others following the fame Example, to the great eafe
of the.
People.
When
I was
arrived in
Spain,
I
there received
a
Bolie from his
Holinefs.,
giving Licenfe to take up the Bones
of
my
Father. and tranfport them
in–
to
Spain;
which accordingly was performed, and
his
Reliques brought over
to him, which I depofited in the Church of St.
ljidoro
in
Sevile,
where
they.
now remain
buried,
to the Glory and
Honour
df our Lord God ;
whofe
fl!ercy
be
upon us.
Amen.
.
This Mortality
was a
year
afterwards
followed
by
the death
of
Loren;o
ile
Aldana,
after
a long
and grievous ficknefs ; he
never had
been married,
nor
ever had
any
natural Sons.
By
his laft Will and
Teftament
he leftt
his Lands to his Heir, that therewith he might
be
enabled to
pay
fuch
Fines?
and Taxes, and Tributes., which fhould afterwards
be
laid npon them: He
1
was
a very :Noble and Generous perfon., and one
of
the fecond Adventurers,•
who entered into
Peru
with
Don Pedro de Alvarado.•
Some lhort time after the
War
of
Confalo Piparro
was ended, two young Gentlemen
of
bis Kindred;
!
tho' not very nearly allyed, came over to him in that Country, whom he
kindly received., and treated as if the1 had been his own Sons. At the
end
of
three years t:hat thefe young
M~n
had been with him, he thought
it
fit
to put them into fome
way
of livelyhood, and
in
order thereunto, he gave
them a Stock, and fent them to his Steward, to
te~ch
them how; and in
what manner
they
might employ and improve
it;
for according to the
Guftom of that Country, whilft there was no War, nor Expeditions on
new Difcoveries ;
it
was no difparagemcnt to a Gentleman, to trade and feek
ways of gain, ra her than to
fit
idle, an without bufinefs. And
fo
he gave
them ten thoufand pieces of Eight., which are twelve thoufand Ducats, ad ...
vifing them that
it:
was
their Seo k,
which with good
husbandry
they might
increafe to a confiderable
benefit;
and which he.believed they
would
have re–
ceived kindly from him, and with thanks: but thefe young Sparks fcornful –
ly
rejected the Offer, and told him, That it was a dilhonour and fhame, for
Gentlemen of their
Qyality.,
to
buy
and
fell
like Merchants; and tho' the
Steward acquainted them, that the moft noble
Spaniards
in that Country,
were ufcd to trade with the Natives
of
the Country, and to
buy
up their·
Commodities, fuch
as the Herb
Cuca,
and
May:,
and fend them to
the
Mines
of
Plate at
Potocji.
for provifions to fup
portthe People which la–
boured there : Which was no di!honour for the be.ft Men to do; and was
not of the fame nature and efteem with thofe who fate in Shops, and
meafur ed out Cloth and Silks
by
the yard. And if they thought
it
too
mean alfb to deal like other perfons of Q!!ality,
they might aet
by
their
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