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Royal
Commentaries.
BOOK
VIII.
(as they wrote to me from the Court) to confer upon her the Title ofMarquefs
'It
Oropefa;
which
is
a Colony
fo~nde~
by
the Vice-King,Don
Franczfco de
Toledo
m
Per11?
9ncf
called.Oropefa
by
him,
In
memory
of
his
~nceftors,
which he
de~
frred might be continued m
the
new World ; befides
which
Title and Favour
I am informed, that a Confaltation hath been held amon
ft
the Illuftrious Pre:
fidents and Lords of the Royal Council of
C
aft
·1e,
and the
lndies
at which al
fo
his
Maj~fties Confe~o'ut
was prefent,with two other
~d
vocates' belonging
t;
~he
Councll of the
lndies,to-.confide~
what farther Grauficatiens could be made,
m reward ·of
t~e
ma!ly Services which her
F
atb~r
had
done.,according to his
Du–
ty
towards
htS'
MaJefty,
and as a Compenfauon for her Patrimonial Inheri–
tance.
Towards which (as I am informed) the Relation I have given
in
the
firff:
part of thefe Commentaries
hath,
in forne manner, contributed: Which
if
fo
I £hall
efteem
my
felf
fuffidently
rewarded for the labcmr and pains
I
have
take~
to write this
Hiftory,
though no other benefit
or
fatisfa6tion accrues thereby
tmto
my
feJf.
·
CH
Pi
P.
XXI.
The
Conclufion
of
this
Eighth
Book-,
and !aft
of
t~is
Hi–
flory.
•
H
Aving, in
the beginning
of
<this
Hiftory,
fhewed
the Original of
the
lncas,
who
were Kings of
Per11,
and defcribed
their
lncreafe, and
Conquefts,
and
all
their generous Exploits, together with . the
manner
of
their
Govern–
ment,
both in War and Peace, and
th~reunto
added
their Religion and Idola–
try
practifed
in
the times o
their Gentilifme:
Al1
whith,
by
the
Divine
favour
and
affiftance, we
have
largely handled
in
the
fitft
part
thefe Commentaries
i
by
which I have
cornplyed
with the duty I
owe
to
my
Country and Kindred
by my
Mothers
fide.
In this
fec~:md
part
we have
at
large
related
all
thofe
brave
Alts, and gallant Exploits performed
by
the
Spaniards,
in
the
Conquefi:
of this rich Empire, in which I llave complied (tho, not fully) with the Duty
and Obligation I owe to
my
Father, ;md to his llluftrious -and Generous Com–
panions. So that now
it
may
be time to conclude
this
Work,
and
put an end to
this
Labour, with the ultimate
Reign
and Succefiion of the
Incas,
who, with
that
unhappy
Huafcar,
were
13
in
number, who poffeffed the Throne of that
mpire until the Invafion of the
Spaniards.
But as to the other five, which
fucceed~d
afterwards.,
that
is
M11t1co Jncd.,
and his two Sons
Don Diego;
and
Don
Philippe,
and
hi~
two Nephews, weda not infert them in the Line of Kings, for
tho'
they
had a right to the Inheritance,
yet
they
never had poffeffion of the Go-
rnment; but
if
we 1hou1d teckon them in that number, we might then account
18,
who defcended
by
the direct Male-line from the firft
lnca MNico Capac,,
to
the !aft of thofe Children, whofe Names I do not know. The
Indians
do not
re
kon
Atahualpa
in
the
number of
their
Kings, being,
as they call him,
an
Auca,
that is
a
'Traytor.
Tho' in the laft Chapter of the firft Part of thefe Commentaries, we have
given
an account of
an
the Sons, which in an oblique Line defcended from the
u
veral Rings; of which (as we have there affirmed) a true, and an authentick
Lift was font me; with Power and Authority direll:ed to
.Don
Melchior
Carlos,
Don Alonfo de
Mef11,
and my felf.,
that we jointly, or any one of us,
lbould
lay
it before his Catholick Majefty, and before bis
Supream
and
RoyaJ
Council
of
the
!tubes;
to the intent and purpofe, that they might be freed from thofe
Taxes and Impofitions which they uftained: Which Papers and Memorials,
as they came directed
Unto
me, I difpatched to the [aid
Dvn Melchior
Car/01.,
and
.
Don Alonfo
de
Mefa.
But the faid
Don Melchior,
having Pretenfions of his own,
would not weaken his own Intereft.,
by
giving Countenance to their demands ;
nor would he prefent their
P
pets, that
it
might not be known thereby,how
~a
ny
o de
Royal Lio
ere
ftill
furviving; fearing
1
ft
bis
Intereft fhould be di-
vided,
.
.