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Royal
Commentaries.
EooK
IV.
Some few days after which, the Vice-king having notice of the great noife and
fiirs which were making
in
the Streets,
by
thofe who were
upon
their return c
Couo
with
raca
de
Cafaro,
he prefently fufpeeted, as
C11rate
in the fifceemh Cha
0
rer of his third Book reports, and with whom ocher Authours agree. thac
~
c
~
Cajlro
ha~
been
the
c~ufe
of
all that.
noife
and
~ifiurba nce;
for , hich
reaf~na
h;
ordered
him to
be fe1fed and committed
to pnfon,
and all his Efiate to be
feque–
llred.
The people
of
ch_e.
City,
thoug~
they
h~d
n?
very
great kindnefs for
Yaca di
Caftro,
yet they pet1uoned
~he
Y
ice-~mg
m
~1s
behalf, defiring him, that fince
r
aca de Caftro
was one of
hlS
Ma1efiy s Council, and had been
rheir Governour
that he would not be
fo
fevere upon him as
to
commit him
to
the common
Pri~
fon,
fince
t~a t
a perf<
rt
of
h~s
Qg_ality, though
condemn~d
the next
day
co
loofe
his head, might be fecured
ui
Come
decent and convement Ptifon.
"hereupon
he was fem to the Town-houfe, under bail of
ah
hundred
thoufa~d
Pieces of
Eight,
in
which Sum the Citizens of
L ima
had engaged for him. With fuch ri..
gorous courfes a
thefe
the people being much ditgufied, many of them
forfook
the
City~
privately departing by few in a company taking their way towards
Co:t£o
where the Vice-king had not as yet been received. Thus far are the words of
C arate
;
the \ hich is confirmed by
Diego
Fernande~
almoll: in the fame \
ords
to
which be add ,
that
Vaca
de
Caftro
remained
a
Prifoner
in the
common
Gaol·' his
words are thefe
whiq1
follow,
'
Such as remained behind in the City often met in fe\ eral
Caballs
and
Coun–
fels, lamenting together the mifery that was come upon the Land and the Inhabi–
tants of
it,
bidding adieu co all tbe Riches, Liberty and Jurifdiction which they
as Conquero,urs and Lords of
Indians
had gained and
acquired,
which would be
a means to unpeople the Countrey, and to caufe an abatement of the King's Cu–
froms and ocher parts of his Revenue; and therefore they
poficively averred,
thac
it
was impoffible that the
King's
Commands could be executed herein, or chat
ever
there
fhould
be
any
new difcoveries made, or Trade and Commerce maintai–
ned for the future; befides a thoufand other inconveniences and
~arnages
which
th~y
alledged.
And
with
this fear and difiraetion of mind was every man pof–
fefied, wnen fome of
the mofi principal
perfons, pretending
to
make a vifit to
the Vice-king, in hopes that he, having proved and had fame experience of the
ConfHtution
of
the
Counrrey, might be induced to alter
his
humour, or at Jeall:
rendet
it
more flexible
and
eafie ;
but
fo
IX
on
as
any perfon couched on
chat
firing,
though
with
the
greatefl: gemlenefs and fu bmiffion im2ginaLJ , he imme–
diately put himfelf into a paffion. and by his authority forbade all fa rther
difcourfe
upon that point, obviating all objeetions \\
ith
the name of the
King's
plea
fo re
and
command ; which abrupt manner of treacy gave great difcontent, and excited in
the minds of men rancour and malice againft his perfon.
Some few days after the Vice-kings reception, three of the
J
ufHce " hich
11
..
mained behind with Doetour
Carat c,
who lay fick at
T ru.'\:illo ,
came £hen
To\\ n;
upon whore
arrival he immediately caufed a Court to be called, and ap–
pointed a place of Judicature
to
be erected in the Houfe \,,here he himfelf was
lodged, being rhe molt convenient for his own accommodation, as alfo becau(e
it
was the m
£l:
fum ruous Chamber in all the City. He al
fo
ordered a
fiately
reception
co
be
made purpofely for his Commiffion under
the
Great and Royal
Seal,
whi ch '
as put into a Cafe covered \;
ith
Cloth of Gold, and carried on
a
H orfe decked with a
oot-c1oth
and
Trappings of THfue, the which \.\'as at
each end held up by Judges of the
City,
clothed in Gowns of cri .fon Sat–
rio, -and one of chem led the Horfe by the Bridle ; the which was performed
with
the fame folemnity as they ufed
in
Caftile
to
receive
the perfon of the
King.
So foon as the Court was fate,
chey
began to treat and enter upon bufinefs as
well relating to
J
ofiice
as
Government , and herein he thought co render him(elf
the more popular
by
fc
vouring the caufe of
the
poor., who general.) are more
pleafed with revolutions and changes , t.han
th~
r!ch. And
~ow
_the I?evil , "ho
defigned the downfall and ruine of this permc10us and e
ti
ice-kmg , began
w
difiurb
and
difquiet
all
the Counttey , which
was
fo
lace
y
1ertled
afrer
the
troubles of an intefiine War ; the
firft
commotion took
its
rife from an ill under–
fianding between the Vice-
~ing
and the
J
udg~,
and
i~deed
C?f
all the
Kingdo~
;
for chat
the Vice-king
refolvmg
co
carry on
his
i.vork, m puttmg the new Lai s m
execu-