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Royal
Commentaries.·
BooK
VI.
::
obli~ed
thereunto
_by
Orders of the Cot?rnoo Council within the refpedive
,c
Precm&; co wliich
th~
people
fo
readily
conc~rred,
and
willingly
contribu-
ted to fupply the neceffittes of each other; that m a very iliort
time
they ran
" up a Houfe, or Cottage, agreeable to the minds of th0fe Inhabitants·
the
" "vhich cull:ome being very beneficial to the people,
was
afterwards
mad~
"int
«
a
Law,
and confirmed by the authority of the
Incas:
And this ufefull affiftence
'' which fome
Indians
do unto
this
day afford unto each other, ·is like
che Precepts
t;c
of our Chrifilan
Charity :
And where
this
Rule
is
negleeted
by
fome covetous
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and
felfifhlndians,
there the common
good
is
injured and
abufed by
thofe
who
c,
are
neither
ufefull to
themfelves nor
others.
CH AP.
Of
1na11y
other Laws introduced
hy
the
Inc · Pachacutec,
and of his
Sentences and Wife Sayings.
'
" JN fine, this King, with the affill:ence and wifedom of his Cowifel, having
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reviewed and weighed the feveral Laws, Statutes and Cufioms
in
ufe and
" prattice amongll: the many Nation and Provinces which he had reduced , con–
'<
firmed thofe of them which were good and profitable, and abrogated thofe
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which interfered with the common peace, and were rc;pugnant to the Majefty
'' and Sovereign Dignity of the
Inca
;
to which he added many other Laws again.ft
" Blafphemers, Paricides, Homicides and
Trayto~
to the
Inca,
alfo againfi Adul–
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terers of both Sexes; againfr thofe who forcibly fiole way Daughters out of
" the Houfes of their Parents, or by violence committed Rapes on the Bodies of
" Women, or attempted the Chafiicy of the Seleet
irgins, or robbed, or
purlm–
,, ned, or burned Houfes, or were guilty of Incell. in the- right line. Be.Udes
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which, he added many Rites and Ceremonies to be obferved in their Sacrifices,
'' and confirmed thofe ancient InO:itutions of
his
Ancefiors, relating unto their
'' Temples and Religion. He al
(o
confirmed the
Ce
ancient Laws following
:
·,
" Namely, Thar Children fhould obey and ferve their Parents untill the Age of
" twenty five years ; and that all contraCts ofMarriage before that time, without •
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the confent of Parents on both fide , were void and null; and that Children
" born in that condition
~
1
ere
Bafl:ards, and Illegitimate ; but
if
in cafe,
in
the
cc
Efl:ate of fuch Matrimony, the confent and approbation of Parents iliould afier-
" wards be obtained, then were the Children efteemed Legitimate, and refiored
" to the privileges of lawfull Inheritance. He moreover approved and confirmed
" the Efrate which \'\ere appropriated to the maintenance of Lordfhips and Seig-
,, niories according
t0
the ancient cull:oms of Kingdoms and Pro inc s,
i
hich
" cafi
the Judges were not to receive Fees or
Re~
ards for Judgment. Many o-
cc
cher Laws were made by
this
Inca
of
le~
confideration, the partic lars of which,
' for
brevity fake, we omit; and fhall hereafter difcourfe more fully of thofe
<<
Law \ hich he made for Regulation ofJudges,. ofMacrimonialContraCls,
d
" of the Tefi:aments of perfons deceafed., and of what he in!Htuted abo
t
Mill–
" tary-Difcipline, and tlie account
to
be
obferved in the courfe and cirde o
he
" year.
In this Age of ours
Don Francifco
de
Toledo,
changed and al er d
a y of
" chofe Laws and Statutes which were made by
this
Inca,
in which the
Indians
ob-–
'' fi
rving and admiring his abfolute and uncontrollable power,
gav~
him the
'
ame of
Pachac11tec
the Second, which is as much a to fay, the Reformer of
'' the Reformer ; and
fo
great vas that
rev~rence
hich they bore
to
that
Inca,
'
that e en to this day
hiS
Memory is dear
and
precious to them. Thus far are
the"
ord of
Bllu
Valera,
which I found amongO: his loofe Papers
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all
other mat-
ters