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Royal
Commentari s.
BooK
I.
CH AP.
III.
Of the little
Money
which
was
in
Sp
·n
before
the
Conqueft
of
ru.
TO
make more evidently appear the great Riches
v.
hich
this
Triumvirate pur-
chafed
co
the World, we mull: make a large digreffion from
our
defign in
band ; and for the more clear elucidation hereof, we muft make u[e
of
the Autho–
rity
of fome Hifrorians, who have
noted and
defcribed the
Revenue
of
cerram
Kingdoms,
hich
before
rheConquell:
of
Peru
were
vafily
fhort of that Income
wliich they
yield
at prefem.
Bodmu1
in
his Book
of
Common'A ealch fhews
borh
in
general,
and
particularly fpecifies
the Revenues
of
fome
ommon
ealths
and
Princes,
to have been of
incohfiderable value before
the
onquefi of
Pem,
in
com–
parifon of
their
prefent
improvements,
and
infiance in
feveral
fl:ates
which
were
mortgaged, or
fold at
mean
prices;
he tells us
how
frnall
wa the
pay
of ouldiers,
and the wages
hich Pti11ces
gave
to their ervan , and at h
w
cheap
a rate
all
things were
fold;
and
in
fuort, that
what
was
formerly valued
at
an
hundred
Crowns a
year,
is
now worth a thoufand, and that all Lands and
Houf
es are
rifen
twenty times
in
the valtte
of
thetr
rent.
arther he infiances in the ranfome
~
hich
Lewu
tire
9th. King
of
France,
paid
for
his own
Perfod
to the oldan
of
Egypt;
which
he
fays
amounted to no more
than
five hundred thoufand Florins,
and
chis
he
compart:s with
the ranfome of three Millions,
hicb
CharleJ
the
firfi:
f
France
paid to the Emperour,
ChArles
the 5th. for hi ranfome. Farther he ad
,
that
in
the
ei
of
Charles
the 6th.
hich
was
about
the Year
1449.
the
yearly
Re·
·
enue of the whole Oown of
France
did
not amount to above four hundred
thou-
and
rank~
and
yet
in
the Year
1)74.
hen
Charles
the 9th dyed,
rhe
fame
Re–
venue was
improved
to
fourteen
Milliorts,
and
the' like proportion
of
increafe
"as
ad
anced
in
all other King<Joms and Governments, '' hich
~
amples ferve
fuffi–
<:iently
to
demonfuate
in
h11t
manner
all
the
World
hath been enriched
by
che
reafur
of
Pem.
And in regard that
ur
Spain
hath been
efpecially
obliged tv
~hat
ouncrey, by the vall:
effiuxes
of
its
W ealrh
fr
m thence,
ve
need
not
feek
or borr
ro
fi
hereof from other Counrrie, ut nely conli er our ovvn; nor
d v
e
t
look many Ages ba
k,
but onely
fr
m the
time
f
King
Ferdinand,
fumamed the aint, vvho regained
Cordwa
and
Seville,
f
vvhom the General Hi–
ftory
f
pain,
·ritten
by
Don A lonfo
the l-\'ife , rnak mention ; and tell us,
rh1t
rm
A lon[o
the
9 th.
ing
f
Leon,
who \
Father
f
King
Fen1and
the aim
made
ar
upon him · and that
hi
on
'~ r
te him word,
chat
a an obedient
hild he
' ,
r ol ed ne er to refifl: him, and that he '' ould gladly appea[e his Anger
'ith
any
fa ti
fa
ion·that he {hould require of
him ;
to \
hich
Dm A lonfo
replied,
h
t
h required of
him
the ayment
of ten
rhoufand
Maravedu,
w
1ch
he m ed
im,
1
hich wh n he had per
rmed, hew uld then
ceafe
h. \Nars, and enter
inro
i
''
ith
him.
Tne
whole
Copy
of the Letter, written at large ,
v•e
have ornitt d
to
recite
fc
r
bre\
ity
ake ;
nely
we
ha
e thought
fi
to
re eat
t
e
Anfi,,
er which ' a \ rote in thi manner : That the caufe of
· \Var was for
th re
ery
f
ten thoufand
M.1rt1
edu
\
hicb
e
King
D on
.nriq111:t
owe
for
che
hi h
·
y
whi
h he had
made
to
antwanne~
de
l
M~a,
an
that
aying
chis
Money,
t
1e
uarrel
fhould
end; whereupon the
King
Fernando
not being
\V illi~
t
\\ age
ar
\!
ith h. Father for ten thoufa nd
Mirr
du,
refen
y
ma e
him
1.–
cisfa
ion
the \ ·hi h is rel
red
in
the gener 1 hronid e of
fttin,
an
in
the
parn-
ul
r Life
f
·
ng
Fernando.
A
ouc the me time a certain
night who ' ·ore he red
rofs a a
badge_o
h·-
ilgrimag unt
the
H
y
Land, named
&
M!,
g n
to
ommit
many.
m-
olen
bef<
re
· de
..cure; for" ·hi h
ffi
nc
di
e complain
oming
aga10
hi
, he
w
.
re
r a
pe
fore the Coun of
J
ull:ice, co make aofr\'er
to
rnofe
ufc tion which
\Ve
e
i
ag ·
hun; upon whi h furn ons
D1.u
making
is
ap
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