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Royal
Commentaries.
BOOK
VIII.
told them., that he was glad
to
obtain the benefit of the Chriftian Ordinances
,,.
upon theTe!tirnony and Authority of his Grand-father
Huayna Capac,
wh~
declared, That the Law which the Chriftians taught them, was better than
their own ; and.being
by
Baptifme received into the Church of
Ch
·ft,
he would
be called
Philip,
after
~he
name, as he faid,.
o~
his
Inca?
and King,
Drm Philip
of
Spain:
But this Function was perf?rmed with as J?Uch Sadnefs and Sorrow.,as that
of his Brother's was celebrated w1th Joy and
Tnumph,
as before declared.
Though this Sentence againft the Prince was publifhed every where
and
· that all we have faid,
and
much more appeared,(which we for brevity fake 'omit)
which might perf
wa~e
the World, that _the
fa!Il~
would be executed:
yeE
the
Spaniards
of
the
City,
as
well Seculars
~s
Rehg1ous, were
o~
Opinion that
the Vice-Kingw.ouldnot proceed
to
an Aet
fo
unhumane and barbarous, as to
kill
a poor Prince.
d
pofed,
and
dif-inherited of his Empire;
which
could ne–
ver be pleafing and acceptable to King
Philip,
whof~
Clemency would rather
have ordered his Tranfportation into
Spain.,
than paffed this Condemnation of
him to death, which...he had never deferved. But the Vice-King it feems was of
another Opinion, as we
!hall
fee prefently in the following
Chapter.
CH A.
P.
XIX.
The
Sentence
is executed upon. the
Prince.
The· endeavours
ufed to prevent
it.
The Vice-King refufes to hear/zen
there–
ttnto.
-with
what
Courage
the
Inca
received
the
ftroal{
of
Death.
<
T
HE
Vice-King,refolving
to
execute his Sentence, which he believed
to
be
for the Safety and Security of
th~
Empire, caufed a Scaff"old to be rai ed
in the chief place of the
City.
This was
fo
new and ftrange a r folution rn all
People,
that
the Gentlemen, Friers,
and
other grave Perfons
were
fa
concerned
for it, that they
met
together, and drew up a Petition to the Viee-King, repre–
fenting to him the Barbarity of the Falt, which would be fcand alou
to
Lhe
World, and difapproved by his
Majefty.
That ic w0uld be much better to
•
fend him into
Spain;
for tho' Banifhcnent be a
li11gering
Torment, yet
ic
i
a
token of Clemency., much i·arher than the Sentence of a fpeedy Death.
.. A
Ped~
tion being
drawn
up to this effi
a,
with deGgn to be delivered with all the fup–
plication and interceflion, in behalfof the Prince ; the W ce-K
ing~
who had his
f
pyes
abroad, and
by
them was informed of the Petition "'hich
was
preparing,
with the Subfcription of many hands thereunto,• refolviqg not to
be
troubled
with fuch Importunities, gave Order
to
have the Gates of the Court 1hut, and
no
Man
fuffered to come to him upon pain of Death : And then immediately
he ilfued out a Warrant to have the
Inca
bt.ought forth., and his Hcead cut off
without farther delay, that
fo
the difturbarice o f the Town might be appeafed
b y a fpeedy execution ; whereas by giving time, a Corubuftion might be raifed,
and the Prince refcued out of his hands.
•
Accordingly the poor Prince was bq:mght: out of
the
Prifon, and mounted
on a Mule, with hjs hands
tyed,
and a Hal ter about his
N~ck,
with a Cryer
be~
fore him, publifhing and declaring, that he was a Rebel and a Traytor againfr
the Crown of his Catholic]}
Majefty.
The Prince not underft nding the
Spamjh
Language, asked ofone of the Fricrs who went with him, what
it
was that
the
Cryer
faid
?
And when it was
told
him, that he proclaimed him an
A11ca,
which was a Traytor, againft the King his Lord; which· when he heard, he
caufed the Cryer to be called to him, and defired him to . forbear to pablifi1
fuch horrible
Lyes,
which he knew to be
fo,
for that he never committed
any
act·of Treafon, nor ever had
it
in his Imaginations,
as the World
v
ry
well
knew:
JJut,
fays
he,
tell
the~,
that they
k.Jlt
me without other caufe, than only that the
rice·
King
will have
it
fo;
and I call God, the
Pachacamac
of all, to
Wttnefa,
that
.
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