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BeoKIII.
Royal
Commentarier.·
.
•
I
CH
AP.
XI.
•
What
the lnhahita71ts
of
Cozco
afJed
in order
to the
King:>
s
Service.
What alfo was done in favour
of
Don Diego.
Vaca de Caftro
nominated in
Spain
for
Judge to deter-
11zine
the quarrels
an~
differences
in
Peru.
G
O?tnz
de
Tort/'!]a,
who was a principal
Citizen,
and Chief
of
the Common
Council of that Corporation, was no
t then prefent, when the Orders and
Cemmiffton of
A/mag~·o
were
brought
co
Co:
t.co,having
been
in
the
Conncrey for
ftx
or feven days to divertife himfelf with Hawking and other fports ;
fo
foon
as
he bad
r~cl
the Letters which advifed him of the Tragical Death of the Marquis,
for whom he conceived a particular efteem, being his particular Friend and Con–
fident,
he
was n;mch grieved, and furinking up hls !houlders, turned his head co–
ward the Hawk
he
carried,
faying,
It
is
now more feafonable
foi;
us to prepare
for
a
War, with
Fire and
Sword,
than to
attend
to
our
f
ports, and our Countrey
,
recreations ; for being a judicious Man, he well forefaw all thofe miferies and ca–
lamities, cruel
deaths and revolutions,
which
would be the certain confequeoces
of
d\e late
fuccelles.
Hereupon
he
immediately returned
to
the City,
and
not
co ·
~ve
any occafion of jealoufte or offence to the contrary party,
he
came
in
by
~lit
;
and having difcourfed with feveral of the
Corporation, he
told them, that
it
was-ne~!fuy
co
convene the people of
Areq11epa,
of the
CharcM,
and
)of
the
parts
lying
Southward from
Co:t.;o,
and to affemble
the
Spaniard1,
w
·ch
were dili
perfed about
the Countries:
To which end he advifed
them to
difpeed
Meflen–
g~,
of which he
offe
red himfelf for one. This refolution
being
taken, he de-
1'8trt~d
that
very night
fr.omCouo,
and went
in fearch
of
C~ptain
N11nno
de
Cajfro,
wh.o then
refided
at
h
is Plantation,
which
w.asabout
fifteen
or
twenty
Leagues
ffum the City, where being arrived, they both difpatched Meffengers to
Pedro
de
A»f11rcs,
and
to
Gttrfi!aj{o
de
la Vega;
and having informed
them
qf
the late
fuccef–
fes, they
r~uired
them
as
gooo and loyal
Subje&,
to
repair
to
Couo,
there to
perform fuch
Services
as their duty to his Majefry required. Afcer thefe Meffiges
were difpatcbed,
Gome:t.
de
Tordoya
went
in all halle
to
[eek
out/or
Captain
Pe–
i:lrfT
A/var~
llolguln,
who
with a hundred
Spaniard1
was rnarchea
to
the
Eafi
of
Cqllao
tp conquer
the
Indian1
of thofe
parts,
who as
yet
had not been fubdued; and
trav.ellin~
with
all
diligence
and
hafie, at length he over-took him, and
gave him
a·relation of the Death of the Marquis, and how
Don Diego
4e
Almagro
pretended
to
govern.
~he
Empire.
Wherefore he
defired him to
tak~
this
bufineiS
to heart,
·
and to
intereft' himfelf
fo
far in
chis
fervice of God and rhe King, as to become
Captain
and Chief
Leader of the people, who had joyned
in
this
League
and
Af–
fociatlon
together ; and farther
to
oblige him, he
offered
to
ferve
under him
in
quality
of the
meaneft
of
his Souldiers.
.Pedro
41vare~
being
fenfibly touched
witn
the Jufrice of
the
caufe, and pleafed
w1~
the
~onour
fo
freely
offered to
~irn,
accepted
the
Command and Charge,
and
nnmediately fet up a Standard
for
h1s
Majefl:y,
fending Meffengers to the
Char–
&~,
and
t<?
4requepa,
to
pub~i!l;
his
Declaration, <=ontaining his
Reafons and
Inren–
t10n
of
tlu{"?V
ar ; farther
giving
them
to
underfiand; diat he would march fair
·
-and
fofi:ly
with
the
people
that were
with
him
towards
CoufJ
that
[a
rhofe
who
were
i?
die rere
r\1ight
have time to
come up
and
joyn.with him before he
entred
· the
City.
The
Cquntrey was
by
this tirne all in an uproar
upon the
confufed
report of the
Death
of
the Marquis ; fo
that
the
Melfengers
fem to
Arequepa.;
and
the
Charc~
met
the
pe~ple
already on
the
way
coming
to
joyn
with
Pedro Alva–
>'e~
Hofgum,
and,
accordingly the feveral
Bodies being
united,
their Numbers
a–
mounted unto almoft two hm;1dredMen. The ne\\
5
of
their March being known
at
Cou~,
allarum'd
the
Almagrian
Fa~ion
in fuch
manner, thae
about
fifty
of
chem
fearing
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