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Rtryal
Commentarict.
.arrived
at
length at
Los Reyes :
cbe perfo!ls who.
~ere
his affociates were
Lorenfo
de
.A.IJAna, Pedro de
Los
Rios, Benito
de
Carva1al,
~
avil
Lawy~r,
Don Alonfo de Monte–
Major
and
Hernand.D de Bachichao;
whofe
arnvat
at
the.
City of
Los
Reyes
was
f~
lemoized
with great
joy,
though much abated
b_y
the
apprehe~Gons
.they
concei–
ved
of
che feverity
of
the
new Statutes,
and the
m~orable
and mflex1ble humour
of
the
Vice-king,
fo
different
from the
temper ofh1s
Prede~eifour.
So
foon as
he
was
arrived he immediately difparched away from thence
_his
Steward
called
r~o
vimo
de
S.erena
and his Secretary
Pedro
Lope~
de
Cafafi
with
Letters to
the V1ce–
king,
congrat~}ating
his
fafe
~rriva}, W~th
offers.
Doth
of his life and fortune
tO
ferve both his Majefiy
and
his Lord!htp.
Wh1lfl:
thefe matters
paffed on
the
way between
CtJuo
and
the City
of
~os
Reye.r?
other more
unpl~afin~
paffa&es
oc–
curred
in the Journey
between
Tumpi~
and
Rim c,
where
_the
Vice-k~ng, wirho~t
any difference
or confideration .of
c~cumflanc~s,
put
~h~
new Rules mto execuu–
on with all the rigour
and
fury
1magma~le,
without
giving
ear _co
the
defence or
reafons
which
the Conquerours and
Gamers of that
great
Empire could make
01
alledge
in their own
favour
and
behalf,
faying,.
th~t
fo
was
the
~g,s
will
and
pleafure, which admitted of no
delay
or
contra?1cbon,
~r
any
chmg
befides
pure
obedience : Hereupon all the Citizens
and
Inhabitants,
bemg generally
concerned,
were inflamed and inraged ; for as
Fernande~
faith, there was
not
a man amongft
them unconcerned ;
fo that
people
began
to talk
loudly and fcandaloufly againft
rhofe
new Laws, faying,
that
ch·
courfe was
the effett of the pernicious
Counfel
of e l men, and of fuch as
being envious
of the riches and power which thofe
Conquerour had
acquired, had -for their
own
ends
put his Majefiy.upon
i
iretl
means,
and
upon
rigorours
courfes
very _prejudicial to che
publick welfc
nd
perfuaded him
to
fee
them executed
by Officers inflexible and without
rea
:
all
which is fully
reported
by
Gom1r;a
in the
1
5
)th
Chapter of
his
Book, the Title
of which is
this,
Th~
manner
how
Blafco Nunnez
treated with thofe
of
Truxillo,
and
of the Reafans and
Obj~llions
which the People gave againft the new Rules and Statutes.
" At length
Blafco Nunne:<:.
entred into
Truxillo
to the
great difcontent
and
genera
I
'' forrow
of the
Spaniard.r;
for
he i
mmediately made Proclamation to impofe
a
new
" fort ofTribute, and to cUfrighten m.en from bringing the
Indians
under vaffalage ;
cc
forbidding
all people
from
oppreffing,
or
caufing
them
to
labour wirhout pay
or
" againfi:
tneir
incl-inations
:
in fine, the
Indians
were
all
broqght under vaITalage
'' to
the Kiog and
no
ocher. And chough the people
and
feveral Corporations
'' petitioned againfi
the
molt oppreffive Articles of
the new Rules, being willing
cc
to
admit
of
the
Tributes and Taxes which
~ere
impofed upon them,
and to
'" free
the
Jndian1
from
their
fi
rvices;
yet
the Vice-king would hearken to no
-'' terms
of
compofition
or
moderation, but pofitively perfified
in the
execution
c:cc
of the exprefs commands
of
the
Emperour,
without
any
Appeal
:
All chat they
r«
could
get of him
was
this, that be
would
write and
inform
his Majefiy how
ill
~
'
0
he
had
been
advifed
in the confiitution
and
efiablifbment
of
thofe
new
Laws.
''" N
twithfranding
which fair words,
the Inhabitants, who -0bferved his inflexible
<f:
difpofiti0n,
began
to mutiny , fome faid that they would abandon their Wives ·
'' others
declared that
thofe Women
or
Wenches
which, by
command
of
th~
• -" Gevernment, they bad married
and
taken for
Wives, they would
renounce
and
" rut
them offfrom alimony and
maintenance ; others
faid it were better to
have
" no Wives or Children to
maintain than
co want
the fubfifience and benefit of
'°'
Slaves
who might labour
in
the
Mines for them, and
in
the works
ofHusbandry
''- and
other
fervile Offices,
for their
fupport
and
eafioefs of
living ;
others
requi–
,, red money, and
the price
of their
Slaves,
for
which
having
paid
the fifrhs
unto
"J-the
King,
their brand and mark had been fet upon
them;
others murmured and
~'
complained
that
their Services were
ill
rewarded, and
their time
ill
emplo ed
:: to have fpent their
y~uth
and
floy~
1
er
of
their
years in hard!hips and difficultie;,
" -and·at laft co be
deprived
of
the1~
ervants and conveqient
attendances in
their
,, old
age ; _fome
fu~wed
how
th~1r
Teeth were
fallen
out with eating
roafied
Mayz durmg
the
time
of War
m
Peru,
and ochers opened
and
difplayed
their
• 'f
~
wounds
ahd
fraetures
of their
Bones, and the bites
of
Se1~pents
and
venemous
':
Gt~acures.
received
in the
ent~rprifes
they
undettook
to
gain rhat
Empire ;
in
" , which alfo
~ey
had
f
pent
their Efiates and fhed
their
Bloud,
and all
to
increafe
- ·-the Domimons of the
Emperour, in
reward
for which he was pleafed co
de~
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