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.VIII.
Rqyal
Co1nmentaries.
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again
ft
the
Spaniards,
and to kill as many of them as they were ·able. In l tke man··
ner, an Accufation was brought again
fl:
thofe who were born in that Country of ·
Indian
Mothers,aod Fathers who were
Spaniards,and
Conquerour of thatEmpire ..
Alledging againft
theµJ,
that they had
fecretly agre d with the Prince
Tupac Amam.,
and otber
Incas,
to
~ake
an Infurrettion in the Kingdom:
Be–
ing moved thereunto out of a d1fcontent, that they
who
bad been b rn of
the
Royal Blood
0
1
f
the
Incas,
whofe Mothers had been Daughters,
or
Nieces,
or Coufin-G rmans to the
Jncan
Fai::iily; and whofe Fathers
wer~
Spaniards,
and
oft.he fir.ftConguerours.,_who
had gamed
great Fame,and.Reputation;
were
y
t
fa
little confidered.,that
be1ther
on fcore
.of
the Natural
Right
of
the
Mother., nor
of the high Dt!fert
and
Merit of the Father, any
thing was
beltowed upon them;
but all
~vas
conferred on the Kindred and Relations of the prefent Governours;
whilft they were fuffered
to
ftarye,
unlefs they would live on the Alms of Cha–
ritable
people, or
Rob on the H1&h-Way, and
fo
come to
~he
Gallows..
More–
over
it
was
charged
upon the Pnnce, That he had not d1fcountenanced
fuch
perfons as
th~fe~
but had received them into his Service, upon prorni...e that
they
would joyn with him, and dye in the defence of his Caufe.
All
which
being alle'dged
in
that
Accufat.ion.,
which
was
drawn up againft t:ile
Son~
of
Sp11-
niards
born of
Indian
Women., they were all apprehended, and as
many
of them
~s
were of twenty years of
Age,
~nd
upwards,
beinp;
capable to bear
Arms,,
then
refidipg in
Coz..co.,
were clapped rnto Prifon.
Some of them had the
Queftion
put
to them
under
the
Torment,
to
extort a Confeffion from them
of that
for which they had no Proof,
or
Evidence before. Amidft this Mad.
rage,
and
.Tyrannical proceedings
by
Imprifonment, and
Torture,an
Indian
Woman,whofo...
Son was condemned to the Q!.leltion upon the Rack, came to the Prifon, and
With a loud Voice cryed out,
Son, fince thou art ftMenced to the Torment, faffer
it
bravely
lik§
a
Man
of
Honour; accufe no Man
falfely,
and God will enable
thee to bear it, and reward thee for the Haz..ards and Labours which thy Father., and
his Companions have
f
uft11tined to mak§ this Country Chriftum, and engraft the Na–
tives thereof into the Bofom of the Church. Tou brave Sons of the Conqierours how ex-
.
cellentlj have your Fathers been rewarded for gaming this Country, when a Halter
is
the only Recompence and Inheritance purcha,fed for their Children!
Thefe and many
other things fue
uttered
with a loud Voice, exclaiming like a mad Woman a–
bout the Streets, and calling God and
the
World to examine the
Caufe,
and
judge thofe Innocents:
And
if the Fate of them be determined
(faid lhe)
and that
they muff dye., let them alfo kill the
Moth~rs,
who ha_d the
Sin
upon them, to bring
them forth; and who were {o culpable
a;
to deny their own
Ccuntry
and Relation;,
for the fake of thofe Conquerours, and joined with them in the Dejign of
makJ.ngthis
' Empire fub;eU to the
Spaniards:
.But the
Pachacamac.,
or the great God,
hath brougbt
all thefe things juftly upon the Mother.s, who for the
fakfl
of the
Spaniards.,
coHld
fo
eafily renounce their
Inca,
ther.r
Caci.ques,
and Superiors.
And
fince
ihe had
palled this Sentence upon
he:
_felf,
~nd
in behalf of all the other Women
in
the
fame State and Condltlon with her., and had pronounced
them
all
guilty,
fhe defired that
fhe
might be the·firft to
fuffi
r, and lead tl\_e
way
of Deat
and
punifi1ment
to all
the reft ; which
if
they were pleafed to
grant unto h r, God would
reward this good work to them both
in
this, and in the other World.
Thefe paffionate expreffions
uttered
with
all the
Violence
her force would admit; worked greatly upon the Mind
of the Vice-King, and diverted him
from his intention
to
put
them
to
death ; howfo ver they
w
e not
acquitted
hereby, but procured for
them a more lingring fort of Death, which was Banifbmeot into
di·
ver-s remote Parts of the New World, unknown to their Fore-fathers.
So fome of them were fent into .the Kingdom of
Chile
;
and amongft the
)\efr, a
Son of
Pedro del Barco,
of whom I
formely
made
mention
to
])ave been
my
School-Fellow,
and under the Guardianfhip of
my
Father.
~
Others
of them were fent to
the
new
Kingdom of
Granada,
and to divers
lQes of
Barlovento,
and
to
Panama,
and
Nr.cara<rua:
Some
of
them
alfo
w
re
fent into
Spain.,
and
amongft
them w:s
'john Arias ·Maldonado,
~he So~
of Diego Maldm1aao
the Rith; who remained under Banifhrnent
rn.
Sp!lm?
for
~he
_fpace of
te~
Years;
where
I
faw
him, and enter-
amed
bun
twice
in
my
Lodging, at a certain Village within
the
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