685 / 1060
BooK
IV.
Royal
Commentaries.
Io this manner, without other attendance than his own private Family, he em–
barked , and on the
4th
of
May
he arrived in the Port of
7:'umhe~,
from whence
he travailed over Land and all the way he went , he publifhed the new Orders,
and caufed them
to
be'executed and obeyed, laying a Tax or Impofition on the
People according to the numbers of thofe
lndians
they held ,
and
taking them a–
way from others, caufed chem all
.to
be held as of.the King._
.
In
chis
manner he paifed through
Piura
and
Truxt!Lo,
procla1mmg the new Laws
as he went and caufmg chem to be executed, without admitting any Pecition or
Argument
~hereupon.
And
ch~ugh
the In_habirants
~lle~ged
that his mer:hod of
proceeding was not jufiifiable without hearing the ObJelhons they
d to produce
unto the contrary, and chat rhe Laws were not
to
be
enforce~
with.out knowledge
·of the Caufe, or publication of his Power, or Commiffion m a Court of
J
udica–
cure; it being exprefly fignified by his.
Maj~y
that thofe new Laws were co be
publi!hed in Court in prefence of the Vice-king and four Judges. HowCoever the
Vice-king, unmoved by any reafons or perfuafions proceeded refolutely to exe–
cute them, threatning thofe who refufed to obey them, the which firuck greac
cerrour and confufion into ·the minds of the People, confidering char the Laws
were general and cornprehenfive of all fort of People without any qualification
or refiriction. And herein this Vice-king was
fo
politive, that
fo
foon as he was
landed on the Coall: of
Peru,
he difpatched his EmHfaries before him to the
City
of
Lo.r Reyc.r,
and to
Couo;
giving them
to
underftand, that he being arrived with–
in
thofe Dominions, the whole power and auchority as Vice-king devolved apon
him, and that thereupon the Commiffion and Command of
Vaca de
Caftro
was
fuperfeded.
.
Some few days before thefe advices were brought to the Cicy of
L oJ Rrye.r,
the
whole tenure of the new Regulations difpatched from the King by
Blafco N11nne:t
Ye/a
were made known by the Copies which were difperfed in all places;
fo
that
the Corporation of
Lo.r Reye1
difpatched away the Advices thereof co
Antonio
de
Ri.bera
and
{ohn Alonfo P
1ilomino,
defiring them to make
Yaca de Caflro
acquainted
therewith; but he was not ignorant before of all that paifed; for
hi~
Servant
in
sp~in
called
'fames
de
Aller,
being informed of the new Statutes and Regulations
fpeedily pofi:ed with them
c~
his Mafier in
Couo,
fo
that he
was
informed of eve:
ry
particular
fore the Vice-king arrived.
Thus far
is
reported by the Writings of
Fernande:t de Palentino,
and generally all
the Hill:orians agree with him
in
the fame Relacion.
C .H
i\
P.
11. i
Judge
Vaca de Cail:ro
goes
to the
City
of
Los Reyes,
and
difcharges thofe who went with
him
upon
the
way.
The
great
noife and diflurbance
which
the Execution of the
new Laws occafioned, and
the
mutinoU6' words which
the
People
uttered thereupon.
'
T
H E Governour
Paca
de Cajtro
having received information of the approach
of the Vice-king
Blafco
Nunne~
Vela,
and of the tenure of the Laws which
h_e
brough~
with him? and that he put them in execution with all the vigour ima–
gmable, w1tho
1
t
heanng any man fpeak or admitting any Petition to the contrary ·
~e
thought
fit
to fecure his ovm
inter~
and parry by a due compliance "'ith him
~
m_orde! whereumo he went to the City of
Lo1
Re;e1,
there to receive him for
V1~e-king
.. And_ though the Corporation of the City of
Rimac
fent their Emif–
f~1es
Antonio
de
Ribera
and
[ohn Alonfo Palamino
to him, and aHb others from the
~1ty
of
Couo
and other
, perfuading liim not to goe in perfon to the Vice–
k~n-g,
but rather to fend a.
effage to
him
in
the name of all the People, defiring
him to fufpend the execuuon of
cb:
0
new Laws. Arid whereas this Vke-king by
PPP P
~
reafon