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VIII.
Royal
Commentaries.
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beyond recovery, that within a year and a half's time
all
the three dyed .
Howfoever the whole Royal Line was not as yet totally extinct; for the faid
Don Carlo1
left a Son, who, as we have faid in the
laft
Chapter of the firft
Part
came into
9pain
with expectation to receive great Rewards and Preferments
a~
h
was
promife
in
Peru;
but he died at
Alcala
de
Henna.res,
about the year
I
610
by
a Melancholly he cone iv
d
to fee himfelf, upon a quarrel
h~
had
with
on~
who was a Knight as he
was,
of the Order of St.
1ago,
to be fhut up within
the Walls of a Convent ; and afterwards to be removed to another Con–
vent; where, upon more difcontent for his Imprifon.ment, he dyed in the
fpace of eight Month • He left a Son of three or four Months old, which was
made Legitimate, that it might be retldered thereby capable to inherit, in
right ofhis Father, the fame favour of hi
Majefty,.
whkh, by
way
of Penfion
was affigned to him on the Cuftoms of
Seviile
:
B
t
the Child dying
in
~
year
afterwards, the
Allowance
ceafed: And
then
was fulfilled the Prophe–
fie,
which
the
Great
Huayna Capac
made
concerning
the
Blood-Royal, and
that
Empire.
In the Kingdom of
Mexico.,
though the Kings were very powerful
in
t;he
times of
their Gentilifme (as
Francifco Lopez:., de Gomara
wdtes in
his
ge–
neral Hiftory of the
IodieJ)
yet no Wrong or Injury was
done·
to them
in
matter of their due Inheritance, or Right to the Succeilion; becaufe the Kings
being Elective, and chofen by the Grandees, or Great Men, according to
their Vercue, or Merit to the Government. There was not the fame Jealoufy
upon any in fuat Kingdom, as was of the Heirs of
Pcm,
whom Sufpition
only 'brought to D eflruB:ion, l"ather than any Faults, or Confpiracy of their
own, as may appear
by
the Fate of this poor Prince, wh,o
was
fentenced to
·
have his
Head
cut off.
Bht
that
his Condemnation might appear with fome colour of Juftice., his
Crimes were publi1hed by the Common Crye ., namely, That he intended to
Rebel; and that he had drawn into the
Plot
with him feveral
Indians,
who
were
his Creatures, toge her with thofe, who were the Sons
of
Spaniards
born of
Indian
Mothers,
ugning thereby to deprive and difpoifefs his Catholick Ma–
jefry,
King
Philip
the Second, who was Emperour of the
New~'
,
f
his
Crown and Digni
ty withithe Kingdom
of·Peru.
This Sen•ence· to have his
Head cut off, was
fignifi.ed to the poor
Inca,
without telling him the Reafons,
or Caufes of
it.
Towhich he innocently made anfwer, That h
knew
no Fauk
he was guilty of, which could merit Death; but in cafe the Vice-King had any
Jealoufie of him, or
his People; he might eafily fecure himfelf from thofe
fears.,
by
fending him
nod.ora fecure
Guard into
Spain,
where he lhould be very
glad to kifs the hands of
Don Philip,
h.isLord and
~after.
He farther
argued,
that
it
was impoilible that any fuch imagination could enter into his Under–
ftanding ; for
if
his Father with
200000
Souldiers could not overcome
200
Spa–
niards,
whom they had befieged within the City of
Cozco,
how
then could
it
be imagined, that
h~
could think to rebel ·with a
f
mall number.,
again.ftfuch
multitudes of Chriftians., who were now increafed, and difperfed over all parts
of the Empire. That if he had conceived, or complotted any evil defignagainft
the
Spaniards,
he would never have fuffered himfelf
to
have been taken, but
would have fled, and retired from them ; but knowing himfelf to· be innocent,
and without
any
Guilt, he voluntarily yielded himfelf, and accompanied them,
believing that they called him from the Mountains, to confer the fame Favours
and Bounty on him, as they had done on his Brother
Don
Diego . Sayri Tupac.
Wherefore he appealed to
die
King o(
Caftile,
his Lord, and to the
Pachacamac,,
from this Sentence of the Vice-King, who was not content to deprive him of
his Empire, with all the enjoyments therein., unlefs alfo therewith he took away
his Life, without
any
fault, or colour of offence;
fo
that now he could wel–
come Death, which was given him, as the value and price of his Empire: Be–
fides this, he faid many other things., which moved pity in the Hearts of _all
the ftanders by, as
well
Spaniards
as
Indians,
who were inwardly affected with
fuch paffionate expreffions.
Upon Nbtice of this
Septence,
the Friers of the City of
coz..co
flocked
to
the
Prifon,
to inftru8: the Prince in the Chriftian DoCl:rine, and to p erfwade him t_o
be Baptized, after the example ofhis Brother
Don l)iego Sayri
Tupac,
and
his
Uncle
.AtahH~lpa
:
The Prince readily accepted of tne offer to be Baptized, and
·
told