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Royal
Commentarier.
BooKL
amongll: his
O\J
n People with obfcurity, than with greater Ornament and
rate by the
angry
and
incenG
d Citizens of
Couo.
le
is moll: certain
that
Atahualpa
did n
c
bind
his
Head with the coloured Wreath, untill he had
ca$eohis Brother
H11afcar
Prifoner; for before that time that Enfign of Re–
gali.rybelonged to his Elder Brother, \\'ho
as his Sovereign
Lord;
but af–
rer he'
as taken,
and
im~rifoned
by
him, he then proclaimed himfelf
for
ih~
univerfal
Lord,
and
with
his
Dominions he ufurped all the
Marks
of
Power
hich belonged
to
them, as
we
have before related.
But
now
to
conlider that
aoin;Han,
who was an Idolater,
~d
who had
been
gqilcy
of fuch horrible
Cruelties, as
.Attth11alpa
had been, lliould receive the
Sacrament
of Baptifm at rhe hour of bis'
Death,
can be efteemed no
other-
ue ,
chan
as an Effeet of the infinite Mercy of God towards
fo
great
Sin–
ners
as he wa , and I
am.
Ac
his
Baptifm
Atahualpa
was named
Don
[ohn.
Bl# Ya/era.fays,
That Friar
P'incent
de
Valve-t"de
laboured many days
before
his
death
~o
teach
and
infiruet him
in
the
Artides of the
Carholick
Faith; du–
ripg which time
the
Inca
finding
bimfelf
in
Prifon, and Chains, and with–
out other Society
or Attendance
of
Jndi1tns,
excepting
a Youth, who
was
his
K,iofinan , and
permitted
to
erve
him, he
was
!l:ruck \
ith
fuch a
dump
of
Melancholy
ou
his
Spirits,
that
he
remained almofi
infenfible. Upon which
the
Sp.aniards
brought.
him out of
the Prifon,
and
called the
principal
Indian$
to
hiS
Affi!l:ance,
who feemg their
Lord
in
that
condition,
immediately
fent for
their
Cb1ef
Herbalifis
to eafe
and cure
him. So foon
as
thofe
Phyficians
came,
t ~~
lt
his
Pulfe,
to
qifcover
the
nature
and
force
of
his
Fever; but not as
o.urDoetours, who
try
the Pulfe at the
Wrill,
but laid
their Fingers
on the
topof the Nofirils, and under the Eye-lids? after which they gave him a
D~,
made
of the juice of certain Herbs, of great Virtue; what
diey
were,
is
1\0t
known,
unle{s
chat
onely
which
is
called
Payco.
Moreover he
faith,
that
t
's
Drink
J?Ut
him into a violent
f
wear,
and
caufed a long
and found
lleep; af–
t
r
hich
his
F€ver left
rum,
and being returned again to his Senfes, he was car–
ried back
to
Prifon. When
a~ning
was given him of
his
Death, he was
commanded
to receive Baptifm
for
without
it
they threatned to
burn
him
alive,
as they
had done
&ahutimoc
at
Mexico,
who was King of that Empire; and co
affright
him
into Baptifm ,
the
Pile of Wood was kindled, when
they
notified
tlilis
Sentence
to him. At length he faid that he was contented to be baptized,
afner which Proclamation being made of the Crimes
for
hich he died, he
was
~ied
to
a
Poft,
and
firangled.
In all which particularsthe
Spam/h
Hifiorians
agree,
and alf
o
that
he
r nlained
three months
in
Prifon.
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