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Royal

Commentaries.

rally

in all

pans of

Peru,

1ougb !11ore

fo~e

parts than_ in others ;.

this

.Metal,

when the

Indians

find, rney warh

lt,

and

fift

~oldfm1ths

do their Cmders,

and aJrerwards made Prefents thereof unto their Kmgs.

But to

return

agaiµ unto our purpofe,

whic~

determine.what the value

was of that

incn~dible

Ranfome,

for

our better Judgment wherem, vve £hall

fee

dovvn the feveral particulars ment,ioned. by the aforefaid :Authours.

to the

va–

lue and difference betvveen Gold and Silver, there vvas

thofe days,

vvell

novv in

Spain

about tvventy

pe-1'

Cent.

in the elleem of Go1d above that of Sil–

ver

and rather more than Iefs; .&ut

for

more plainnefs, vve vvill reduce the

~ights

of Gofd and Silver to Ducats or

Ca/file

of eleven

Rya/l;

and one

Mar~vedu

to aDucat. Novv to come to the Divifion,

Carare

faith, that the £hare to

every Horfeman came

-zooo

Weight, that

Ducats in Gold, befides Silver;

for every Horfeman had a fourth part more than a Foot-man, and yet notvvirh–

fianding

Ataba!iba

had not complied vvith the fifth pare of vvhat he had promifed

for his Ranfome. And

regard toot no !hare of this Ranfome belonged to

A!–

~agro

and

his

Souldiers, becaufe they -vvere n0t-then prefent vvhen

Atabaliba

vvas

made

Prifoner, hovvfoever the Governour befrovved

thoufand Ducats on eve–

ry Souldier, as a Gratuity, and an Encouragement: This

Carate

affirms.

Gomara

faith, that the !hare to every Horfeman amounted to

}70

Marks ofPlate, belides

Gold; and to the

Capta~ns

thirty or forty' thoufand Ducats a-piece. And now

after we have fummed up the whole, which thefe Authours put

account, of

every parcel, let us fubtrad: the fifth,

and'

then we

fuall

eafily compute what the

full)m

total amounted

unto"'

and how nmch belonged to every Man for his lingle

fhare and proportion.

the Governour they divided

200000

Ducats,

which

)oooo

was in Gold,

and

50000

Silver; befides the Chair

.µi

which the

Inca

was carried, weighing

2~000

Ducats of Gold, which being

thto~

into

the

Heaps

amongff the other

Riches,.fippercaioed

him, as Captain

.General.

the

thr.ee

Capt~ins

of Horfe

their propo,nion was

90000

Ducats in

Gold,

and

3000.0

~n Si

lver. To the

four

Caprains ofFoot the like fumm was proportioned of

9.0000

DucatS in Eold, and

30000

Silver.

To the hundred Foo Souldiers

their

lliare amounted

unto

900000

Duc.ats

Gold, and

195000

in Silver. To

the

two hunqred

and for–

Spaniard_!

Which

came up witp

A!magro,

a largefs was given of

8000.0

Ducats in

Gold,

and

60000

Silver. And

Alinqgro

bimfelf

30000

Ducats

Gold, and

10000

Silver, befides

th~

Allowance

which

his Companion made him out of

his owo {bare, as !hall hereafter be mor particularly mendoned. The fifth of

all

which, dedueted from thefe

f~ve,ra]

parc:=ets4

Gold,

~mounted

unto

462

Ducats, and the

fifth

frorp the

SH~et

unto

s-7

)O_

Ducats. And in regard, as

Hi–

frorians report, that the Silver

,}'V~S

puri_fiecf? and

mm:&

finer than that which

call

Standard, and was by four RyaUs

per

Mark1bett~r,

orof ttlore value; we fhall

.add the fumm of

Duc~ts

unto

this

Account, being_for

mudi

as chis Sil–

ver was more refined

and

b~ttex

than tb(j .common St4ndatd. And not to wea–

the Reader farther wirh fhefe long Accounts of

every

pattirular

fumtn

fhall caft up the total, with allowance of twenty

per cent.

advance; in the

val~e

be–

twee~

the Gold and the Silver; with twenty

pe-1'

cent.

difference between the Piece

of Eight and the Ducat; fo that an hundred

Pefos

in Gold are worth an hundred

and

forty

four Ducats, according to which we {hall eafily make up the feveral

fumms mGold. And in regard that Hillorians do not mention whether the

Gold was fine, as they do that the Silver was refined and purified, we fhalI

fupp~fe

that the Gold was worth twenty two Quilats and an half, as

the Stan–

dhard m

Peru,

and not twenty four Qgilats, as in

Spain,

for then we fhould add to

e whole value of the Gold

218

s-oo

Ducats, which arifes on the QID.lat and an

half

fhf

Advance; but becaufe the

Spanifh

Writers do not mention that difference

di~

al~

likewife leave

~ut

in this

Acco~nt,

left we.ibould feem to infert

any

fngw1thout good Authority.

~to

the Silver, there 1s no other difference than

o twenty

per c;nt.

between the Piece of Eight and rhe Ducar. We fay then that

tC~h~old,

which fell to the <hare of the Governour, together with the Royal

arr, a1!1ounted unto·

2 52000

Ducats.

the Silver

um~-

6ooos

~he ~hree

Captams ofHorfe in Gold

z9,6oo

m Silver·

3 6ooo

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