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Royal
Commentarie1.
BooK
VII.
the Wefiward
of
thefe Houfes of
D.
Gome~,
were thofe of
Martin de Arbieto
be–
yond which
in
the year
1
5
60,
were no farther Buildings ;
for
to the
W
eft~ard
of them was a great Plain in my time, convenient
for
running and breathin_g
of
Horfes, and at the end of
it
was eretted that rich and famous Hofpiral of the
Indians
founded
in
the year
1
555,
and
5
6.
Thus far the Buildings reached
in
thofe
day, ' hat enlargements were made, were added fince. The Gentlemen
which
"'e have named
in
this Treatife, were all Perfons of
Qg_alicy
~
and of Noble Bloud
and famous
for
their Arms, having vanqui!hed and won
tnat
moll: rich
Empire'
th~
greateft part of which
I knew,
and of all thofe which
I
have named,
th~r~
were not
ten
with \.'horn
I
had
not a
perfonal acquaintance.
Of the two
Gifts
which the City contributed for Charitable
Vfes.
B
Efore
I
rreat of the Foundation of that Hofpital, and the Contributions
given
to
it;
I fhall
fufi.
mention the charitable Gifts which the Citizens made to
the
riars of
St.
Francu,
for buying the ground and body of the Church, '
hich
they found already built to their hands, when my Lord
Garp"laf{o
de
la
Vega
was
Governour of
c~o
:
the matter was this
:
Thefe Friars ( as we have faid)
ha–
ving their Convent
in
Caf{ana,
made a demand
(I
know not for what reafon)
upon
[uan Rodriguez:.
de
Vt/la Lohos,
for
this
Ground and Church; in purfuance
of
whicli, they preferred a Bill
in
the Chancery, defiring that they
might
have pof–
feffion of thiS Ground and Church, paying unto this
{11an
Rodrig11e~
fo much
Mo–
ney as the Church and the Land about it fhould be valued or efieemed at, being
22200
Ducats: The Prior of their
Francifcan.s
was then
F.
!uan
Gallegos,
a
holy
Man, and one of
a
mofi Exemplary life and converfarion; by whofe means
pay–
ment was made of this Money in the Houfe of my Fath{T, who gav'e poffeffion
thereof to the Friar , delivering the price
in
Bars of ilver. At
which the fian–
ders-by
much
admiring, being afi:onHhed to fee
fo
great
a fum
paid
[o
readily and
punB:ually at the time by fuch poor Friars; the
rior made them this anfa·er,
that
they fhou d not w nder at thefe Work of Heaven, being produced by the
mere
charity of th"
ity,
whofe hearts God had touched, and mo ed
with
fuch pious
Zeal, that
I
an afiure ou (faid he) that on
MondaJ
of this Week we had not
a-
O\'e
300
Du at
f
thi
furn
toward our payment; and now we are
bur
on
Thurfdqy
morning, \'\hen
I
am prefent before you with this great furn, raifed
by
the pious contribution of the Inhabitants of this City, a well Gentlemen Soul–
dier, as Lords of the
Indians,
who for thefe n o lafr
nights
came knocking
~tour
Gates with Alms in their hands, which they defired to eHow fecredy,
wi(h
fuch
frequent and continued courfe
f pious Benefattor, \\'hp called
to
the Porter
co
receive their Alms and Charity,
that
we have not been able to take our
refi
or
re~
ofe ; all which
I
heard that good Man fpeak in commendation of the
liberality
and harity of the City. And now to fpeak farther of the Foundation
9f
thiS
Hofpital, we mufi: know, that this Godly Prior dying, another fucceeded
in
his
place, called
Antonio de St.
Michel,
a Perfon of a
oble Family, ( of which
Name
alfo
there was
a
great Divine in
Salamanca)
'
ho for his holy life and do&ine
be..
ing
a
true Son; and faithfull Follower of
Sc.
Francu,
was made Bifhop of
Chili,
here he lived with exemplary piety and godlinefS,
as
the Kingdoms of
Chili
and
Peru
can tefi:ifie. This holy Man, in the fecond year of the three
in
which he
li–
ved a Bifhop, preaching every
S11nday,
wednefday
and
Friday
in
Lent,
according to
his
ufual cufrome in the Cathedral Church of
Co~co,
did upon
a
cen~n
SundAJ
ropofe,
that
an
Hofpital fh.ould
be
ereeted
in
that City
for
the
Jndi11n1;
and that
a
Frater-