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BooK

VIII.

Royal

Commentaries.

A Funeral Oration

rt1ade

by a

Religi~us

Perf

on

irt

Honour

of

Garf

ilafo de la

Vega.,

my

Lord,

after his

Death.

4

•

Reader.,

·

T.

His

Speech_

or Orat,.·on is

ftlle~

with

fuch

·~oxologies.,

and

Rodo:'1ont_adoe~.,

after

the

Spamfh

manner.,

ar

neither agree

nnth

the

ftyle

of an Hiftor<1an, nor with

the

Englifh

hum~ur.,

untep

I intended to expofa

my

Spaniard,

and

rencler

f;im as. fan–

taftical as the vameff of his Country-men.

I have tfierefore thought

fit

to pafs it

by

left

in ftrainingour

above its

~y,

it Jho11ld bear .

no

hftrmonJ

in

confort

with

the

Spaniil1

Lang11

and

fo

.we

fhalt

-proceed u'llto

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AP.

XIII.

Wherein

is treated -of thofe,

who,

for cle1!landing.

a

~eward

fur

their Services,

werehanifhed

into

Spain;

and what

Favour

and Grace

his.

Majefly

heff

owed

upon the11r.

Pon

Garcia

de Mendofa

is fent

Gove~nour

unto

Chile ;

and

of

the

S/drniifh he had

there

with the

Indians.

(

B

UT

to

return

now

to

the

Petitioners;

who, for

demanding

a

Reward

in

Lands, for

their

paft

Services,

were

(as we have

faid)

banHh'd into

Spain;

they

at

length

-arrived

there

poor, naked.,and almoft famillied : And in this

guife

they

prefented

themfel

ves

in.

the

Court

before the

King,

Don

Philip

the

Second

1

·which

moved

great

Compaffion

in all thofe

who

were acquainted

with their

Story.,

and how

they

had

been

banilhed,

and

ill

treated

for doing their

Duty.,

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and demanding a Reward of their Services.

But

his

Majefty was

mor~

gracious

to

them, giving a Penfion

to

as many

of

them, as would return to the

Indies,

out of his

Royal

Exchequer,

that they

might have

nothing

to do

with

the

Vice–

King.,

nor: need to

make

Addreffes, or-

Peti~ions

to

him:

And

as

many

of

them as defired to remain in

Spain,

he gratified with Allowances agreeable to

their Condition, that

is,

with

mere

or lefs., according

to_ th~ir

Services; ·and

fo

I found them provided for, when I

came

into

SptiJin;

· which was fame

fhort

time after theie qiatters were tranfacred. Their

~oney

was

affigned

them

upon the Cuftom-houfe at

Sevile

;

the leaft that any of them had, was

480

Du- ·

cats of

yearly

Penfion ; and as their Merits were,

fo

were their

Allowances

to 6,

860,

and

a thoufand, to

1

200

Ducats., to remain Aonuiti_es to

them

for all

the

days of

th~ir

Lives.

A

while

aft~rwards,

his

Majefty

being acquainted with

the Difcour[e s which were commonly made in the City of

Los Reyes,

touchin~

the

hard

ufag~

of the .banifhed

Souldiers ·;

to

prevent

farther Mutinies there;

and

other Diforders which might arife,

by

reafon of the Severity·, and Rigour

of the Vice-King,

his

Majefty was

pleafed to

provide

himf>:lf

with

another

Go–

vernour for

Peru,

named

Don Diego de Az..euedo.,

a Gentleman endued with all ·

qualities of

Vertu~

and Goodnefs, from

wh~m

the Counts

of

Fuentes

are de–

fcended.

But wh1lfr

he was preparmg for his Voyage, he died of a natrval

death., to the great grief ofal1 thofe of

Peru,

who upon the news thereof, much

nted themfel ves.,

faying,

that hey

had not

d~ferved

a Vice- King

fo

good

fo qualified.,

anc;l

therefore

God had

fnatched

him away from them into

ven. :

And

this

was

t·he common

faying., as

I have beard amongft the

Grave and Wife Men of that Country.

But in regard this Gentleman did not

pars into

Pent,

we

do not: find his Name in the

Lift

of the Vice-Kings, which

were

tranfported into that great

Kingdom.

In the mean

time whilft thefe

matters were rranfalting in the

Coun

of

Spain,the

Vice-King of

Peru,

difpatch–

ed

away

his Son

Don

Garci~

de .Mendifa

for

Governonr., and Captain General

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