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The Tranflator to the Reader.
perour
had given
to
his
Brother
the Marqu1J
Pi~arro~
and in
defe~ce
there–
af, and
in
oppojition
to the
n~w
L.aws
before mentioned,
he raifed Wars
agai11fl
the Jujfices
and
the
JT1~e-lang
Blafco
Nunnez,
whom,
aJ.ter .ferve–
ral Fights and Skirmijhes he If.tiled
in
Battel. And t hough this
P1~arro
was afterwards fa/;dued
/;y
the
wife
conduEl of the
Prejident
Pedro de
la
Gafca,
yet
things did not continue long
quiet
/;
for~,they
broke out
ag~in
into new dijiur/;ances.
So
Don
eba{\:ian
de
Cath Ja
made a Re/;e/llon
and headed
the
Male-contents, who being difappointed of t he reuard
they
expelled for
the
fervices
they
had
~one
again/}
Gonfalo. Pi¥arro,
endea...
voured to rigbt
themfel'VeS
by
their
own Power, and
k1Ued
ti.
e
General
Don Pedro de Hinojofa.
Then
Vafco
de
God in z
kiUed
Don
Se
afiian
de
Cafiilla,
and
[et
up
for himfelf, !Jut was
foon
{u/Jdued, and put to death
by
Alonfo de
Alvarado.
ihen
Egas de
Guzman,
a bold and bloucly Vil..
lain pretended to /Je the Head of a Party, but le a»d his Comp/ices were
foon di[perfed for want
of
AJ[ociates
f{)
abet their Caufe.
And lafif:y,
Fran–
cifco
Hernandez
Giron,
with
a/Jout twelve or
thirteen
more 6egan
a
Re–
'1ellion in
Cozco,
and with
that
fma/J number killed
mofl of
the Magij}rates
of the City, andput
mofl
of the Inhabitants to flight; with whom after–
wards
many
difcontented
Souldiers
joining, they carryed
on
a
War
againj}
the
Government
for
fe'Veral
years with much btoud,
and
cruelties aEled upon
each
other; for
now the common Souhliers
were
/Jecome
fo
muti110UJ",
for
want
of
employment, that they were read_y
to join with
any perfon that
pretended to a refentment: And indeed there was not an ordmary Fe/low
bNt
who had
fa
great a vabte
for
him/elf
on
the honour
of
being a
Spaniard
and a Sou]dier, that he fw11/lowed in his vain thoughts aO the Riches of the
Indies,
andfanfied that the whole Go·vernment and
Wealth
of
Peru
wat
not afaj/icient Reward for a perfon of hiJ high Merit and Extrallion.
In
thu
manner
WaJ
Peru
conquered,
and with thiJ fort
of
People hath
it
6een
/ince that time planted, which we
ha'Ve
reafon to belie'Ue have /Juried
themfel'Ves
infl,oth and luxury. How weU they
have
impro'Ved
that Countrey
and ufed thofe Riches which God hath given them, and how humanely
they
h~'Ve
treated the poor Nati'Ves; I lea'Ve to the Hijlorians
of
our
modern
~1mes
:
andfor the Valour and Bravery which·of late years
they
have
efed
t~
defence
of that Countrey;
I refer
my
felf
to the Relation of
the
Buca–
mers.
And
fo
proceed
on
w~t/,
thiJ
Hijlory.