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VIII. ·
Royal
Co1nmelltaries.
Chili,
but mentions
not
this
fecond charge,
occafion~d
by
the Robbery which the
Indians
had
made
upon
him,
which
wa ~
more dif
pl
fing
t
an
th former
and
moved People to
fay.,
That
the
Vice-King,
for
the
fake
of his
Son, had
exh
uft–
ed the Kings
Exchequer
of all
th
Treafure. •
But
as
to
what fucc
eded aftet–
war~s
in the
Kingdom of
Chile.,
we fhall leav.e to
other
\Vriters; and
confine
our
fc
Ives to
the
Territories of
Peru,
having expatiated
our felves
from thence
no
farther.,
than only
to
touch
on
the departure
of
the
Vice-Kings Son fro0:
tqence?
and the
d~ath
of
L~yola.
Thofe
1(/ho think
fin
to
write
th. Hiftory of
thar·Kmgdom,
will
find
fubJefr
enough
whereon
to enlarge their D1fcourfe
on
a War,
which hath continued
alreadf for fifty eight years·
between the
Indians
and
Sp~iArds;
that
is, The
Araucans
rebelled
towards the
end of the
year
1353,
and now
we
are
in
the
year
1611,
and the
Wars
not
as
yet
ended. We
m!gh
t here
re~ount
the
unhap~y
death
of
the
Gover_nour
Fr!Zncifao
~e
Villagra>
with
2.ooSpaniards
more~
which
happened
ion
that
ndgeof
Mountarns, which
hath
ever
fince
had
the
name of
Villagra.
We might
he.realfo tel I
of
the death
of Major
General
1ohn Rodulfo
with
200
men
with him, whom
they killed on
the
Bogg
or Marfhof
Puren.
I
could wifh
to
have been informed
of
the
feve–
ral
particular
fucceffes
of
.thefe Affairs., and many greater which happened in
this warlike
Kingdom,
that I might have
added
them co this Hiftory. But I
do
not
doubt, where People
have
been
born
with
fuch
Martial Spirits,
Qut
that
the fame
Countrey
will
produce in
future
Ages,
Son~
of
her own, endaed with
·a
Spirit
and
Genius of
Learning capable to
write their own Hiftory : And
it
fhall
be
my
Prayer
to God, That Knowledge and
Learning
may
flourifh
in
all
that
famous Kingdom.
CH
AP.
XIV.
The Heirs of thofe who were
put
to Death
for
fiding with
Fran~
cifco Hernandez Giron
in
his Rebellions; are reflored
to
·
their
Eflates and Plantations.
Pedro de Orfua
attempts
.
the
Conquefl
of the
Amazons.
His
End and Death with
many
others w_ith
hi11i.
005
T
HE
Vice-King
Don
Andres de Hortado.,
feeing
thofe
men
whom he had ba–
nifhed fr
om Peru,
for demanding a
Reward
of their paft
S€rvices.,
now a–
gain returned
wi.thPenfions
ailigned
on the
Treafure
of
his
Majefty,
and on the
Cheft of
the
t
hree
Keys, he
wondered muc.h at the
fuccefs,
not
imagining by
what intereft
it
could
have
been procured
for
them :
but more ftrange it feemed
to him, to
hear
of the coming of a
new Vice-King
to
fucceed
him in that Office.
Thii change of
Fortune
caufed
him to
change his Humour.,
and convert
much
of
that
haughty and fevere Spirit
which was natural
to
him,
into
·a Gentlenefs
and
Lenity
more becoming
the
Office
of a
great
Minifter:
and in
this good
temper
he
continued to the
end
of his
life.,
which was
fo
extraordinary, that thofe who
obferved
it,
would
fay, That
if
he had begun as
he ended,
he
would have proved
the moft
admirable Governour
that
ever had been in the World.
Thus
when
the Kingdom
obferved this
great
change
in
the
Vice-King, the Country in
peace
and
quietriefs, and
the rigour
of
the
Juftices
convened into
an affable
and complying Humour;
thofe who
had
been lately opprefied
by
the
heavy
Hand of
Juftice,
aifumed
the courage
to demand fatisfaction for the evils and
damages
they
had fuftained.
Accordingly
the Sons and Heirs of
thofe Citizens,
· who had
been
executed for being engaged in the Rebellion of
Hernandez...,
made
• ,_ .
claims
of their Eftates,
laying before
the Juftices the Inftruments
of
Pardon,
·
which bad been given
to their
Fathers:
and
fo
followed
the
fuit,
that after fe-
veral hearings
and
reviews
of their Caufe,
they obtained Sentence
to have their
Lands,
and Commands ov r
Indians
reftored to them, together
~ith
all other
Confifcations
•