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Reader.
able manner they were treating witk the good '!'en, and whiljl
Friar
Valverde,
with
a Crofi in hi&
hand,
w~
preaching
to
Atahu~lpa th~ir
.
K'ng.
thdt
then
without any Caufe
giveN,
they
fhould
6e
/qlJed
wttb
S~ords
and.Lance;, and jive thoefatid of them
maf{acr~d bef~re
:he
face
of
their Prince
·
And
}Ct
they
would not
foreg,oe
thJJ
foolifh
tmagma–
tion
;
thou
h ajterwards
,
contrary to t_he
faith
g/ven,
they
faw
their
King
imprifo11ed
~
and his
l~berty
promifed
up~n
a .7!afl ranfome
rf
G_oltf
"
and
Silver; which
_when.
paid
ancl fuf&
comp~ied wit~,
he
~cu
notw1th-
flandi11g
fir
angled
in
prijon,
and no
othe~
lt/;erty
g,tv~n
hz1!'
than
that
freedom
which
Death
/Jejlows
upon a!J
mankind.
A~d
yet thu
jif!y
People
could
not but
entertain
a
high efleem
of
the
~pamards,
tM
of. thofe
w~o
were
come to
teach
them a /Jetter
Law,
and
flt!/
ca/Jed them
Viracocha s,
or People
dejcended
from
their
Father the Sun, imagining,
that
this new
~he
Indian
1
fort of
People
in
Beards and
Ruffs had r_eceived
Comm~j/ion
from
that
glori-
B~~ds~
0
ow
Light,
which
they
aclored, for punifhment
oj their Offences, to
fw~ar
,
and lye,
and
vtolate
all
the
Bands of humane
km~.
And
y_et that U:htch
farther
/hews
the
./implicity and
good
nature
of
th:s P
eop/e zs, that
in
de-
.fpight of all
the ill
ufag,e received from the
Spamards.,
they
would
prove
fli!J
faithfu/J
to
them,
upon
a
principle
they
had
received,
that to whom-
faever
they
hacl
yielded themfelves
in
War,
they
were to /;e faithfu/I, with
fach
uncorrupted
Loyalty
and
Truth, that no
conjideration
either of King,
Wife,
Father,
Family
~r
Countrey
could abfolve
them
from
the
06ligation
and
Duty
they owed to their
Countrey
(
vid.
p.
487.)
And
hence
it
wtM
that
fo
many
Indians
fought
againfl
their
Countrey-men in
union
with the
Spaniards,
and
ferved
them
for
Spyes
,
to give them intelligence
of
what-
faever
was
d_ejigned
in the
Camp
of the
Indians.
,,
Bat thiJ
flexible
and
good nature
of
thiJ
People did not
[often
the
haugh–
ty mind of
the
Spaniards
towards
them,
who
efleemint,
the
reft of
the
World
Slaves
to them,
oppref{ed
the
Indians
with
fach fervitude and
fla–
ry
as
the
nature
of
man
was
not
able
to fafiain..
Of
which rhat wife
and
good
Emperour,
Charles
the
Fifth
,
taking
notice, he
dijjatched new
Or–
ders
to
eru,
for
eafe
of
the
Nati'"oes
,
and
to
exempt
them
from
that
inhumane
Tyranny
which one man ought
not to exercife
towards
another :
But
thTJ
gratiow
Indulgence of
the
Prince
fe.r·ved to raife greater Diftur–
bances among,,Jl
the
Conquerours, who
refujing to quii
their Commands
a~d
exempt
their
Indians
from_ their
Va{{alage
and
Ser·vices,
openfy
oppofed the
Governours and
Officers
winch
were
fent
to.
put
the
new
Ordinances
in execu–
tion:
which
afterwards
proceeded
to an
open
War and
B.ebe/Jion
which
with 'V'!riow
fucceffes
continued for many years : till at
length
;he
King
of
Spam
was.force~
to moderate
tke
rigour
of
his
new regulations, and
con–
defcend
to h
Su,b;elfs,
/;_;
confervmg t o
them that
tyrannical
Power
which
they
pretended_ ~nto
/;y
right
of
Conrue(l
o:1~r
the
Indians :
in
which
they
were
fa
unme~ciju!l,
that
_had
not
King
Philip
the Second
contrived
a
fup-
P!Y. of
Negro s
out
of.
Africa
to
work in
the
Mountain of
Potoli
and
other
Mines, t he-whole
India~
N"1tion
had
before this
been
utter!J extinguijhed.
But God, who
iJ
jufl
and compcrjfionate
of
the
Creatures
which
he
hath
made.' would
not
faffer
thefe
_Cruelties
to pafi
unpunijh'd,
6ut
caufed
the
pantar~s
the'!'felves
to he
mflruments
of his
vengeance
on
each
other.
So
Franc1fco
P1~~rro
and
Diego Almagro,
after
having conquered
the
Coun.–
tre~,
fe/1 at
'V~rtance
about fearing the Government and
dividing
the
Spoil,
which
was
decided
by
the
~wor~:
Then
Gon~alo Pi~arro
pretended
to
t he
G01.Jernment cf
Peru
for hts
Life,
by
·virtue of the Patent which the Em-
perour
I