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due place, to make roo!D
at
th
end of this our Work for fo forrowful a Tra–
gedy, ·
which is the
ultimate
Scene-of the fecond part of thefe our C-ommenta–
ries.
Praifed
be God for all fhings.
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CH .AP.
xx.
..' Don Francifco de Toledo
ret.urns·
to
Spain.··.
·Elis
Catho–
licl<_ Majefty- gives him a.
fe11ere
repr~henfion
:
His
Hnd and Death
:
As alfo of the
Go?Jernour
.Marrin
t •
Garcia Loyola.
I
T
is
not
fit
to
condude
our fiiil:ory
with the Death
of
Don
PhiiipTup1tc
Am~ru
·
alone, and therefore we fuall
acco~_pany
it
with
a
fhort Relation of
the
Beath,
and
End of the Vice-King
Don Francijco
de
Toiedo:
Who·
afi er he had compleated
tbe time ofhis Government,
which
was
very
long,and. as fome
fay
16
years,
he
re–
turned iqto
~pain
with
~eat ~iches
and Profperity, being
re~ort~d
by
com~on
Fame to have brought with htm above the value
pf
soo thol;Jfand pieces
of
Eight
in
Gold and Silver: Upon the Reputation ofwhich;he procured
admittance
into
the eourt, and expected to
be
m de one of the great Minilters of State,in
reward
of the fpecial S rvices he had done in cutting ofi, and extirpa'ting the Royal.
Line of the
Inc~u,
iy
which· a
way
was
made to
the
Kings of
Spain
tQ
dain!
a
Right of Inberitance
to
the
Empire of
Pern,
without
other
Competi~or.
He
·
alfo
imagined, that
he had highly
lijerited
of his
Majefty by:
the many good
Laws and
Rules
he
had
Eftablifhed in
tbofe
Kingdoms, whereby:his Majefties
Revenue
was
improved,and
the
Mrnes of Plate, and Qijickfilver., ·well governed,
by
the orderly Regulations he
had
made
therein ; having
ordaine~
and diretted
that the
Indians
of
feveral
Provinces, fhould by their turns- come in., and
work
in
thofe
Mines,
with the fame
pay
for a days labour, as
the .
Spaniards
who
are
Planters in thofe Countries are
by
late La
obliged to
pay
th&m for
their'
work.
And
moreov~r
that the
Indians
being employed in
Gardning.,or
doing any
thin'g
for the
pleafure,
or
benefit of the
<?wner,
fhall receive a pay proportionable to
the value of the thing : The
which
Regulations and Rules being
many
and long, ·
we
fball omit to rehearfe the par iculars of them.
.
Upon fuch groubds., and with
fuch
e~pectations
as
thefe,
Don Fr ci{co
de
Toletlo
obtained admittance to the Prefence of King
Philip
the Second, and co ·
kifs his Royal Hand: But his
Catholic~
Majefi:y
having been duly informed of
all Matters which had fucceeded in
tha~
Empiie,and par.ticularl
f
the Death of
the
Inca
TupAC
Amaru,
and of the Banifhment of his
neareft
Relatioµs and Kin- ·
drcd,to a place where they all perHhed.,did not fhew that kind and
gra~fousaccep
tance
of his Perfon,as he expeCted;but told him
·in
lhort,That he fhould go home
to his own houfe ; for
that
the
King
had
not fent
him
to
kilJ
Kings,
but
to
ferve
them: With
which
Reproo
f he went home much
dejeCted,
and
U(lder
that Cloud
of disfavour
which be never
expected.Jnthis
difgrace,(as it
is
ufual
for
men
who
are going down the Hill, to
be helpt forward in their
way) fo
certain Informers
brought an accufation againft him : That he ordered the
Salaries
of his Servants
and Officers to be paid in Pieces of
Eight,
inftead of f?ucats,
fo
that for every
40
thoufand Ducats
40
thoufand pieces of Eight were made good,
which
was an inju–
ry-and damaqe to the Royal TFeafury.,during the time he affifred in· the Govern-
•ment
which
amounted to the value of
120000
duca~s
: To
make
which good, an
O.rder was fent
from
the Council of State to
lay
a Sequeftration upon all the
Gold and Silver he had brought from
Peru,
and to remain in fuch manner
fe..
cured, until the
account
was audited and cleared, how much
was
owing on that
fcore to the Royal Exchequer:
Don Francifco de. Toledo
being a
man
of a hangbty
Spirit, was no · able to refift this fecond blow of his Majefties disfavour,
but
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