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BooK
IV.
Royal
Commenttt-rie.r.
Royal Council of
Caftile
from which he was
fo
long kept our, ·that when he
came to
be
reftored, he
~as
then the moft ancient Member of
all
t!1a.t Council,
and
in
this condition I found him when I was at the Court of
Madrsd
m the year
1
s-61.
And befides chi's favour of his
refiaur~tion,
he had <?ther reytards given
him
in recompence for his hard ufages and ferv1ces performed
m
Peru
m
conferva–
tion
of the Imperial Authority ; and to his
~on
Don
Antonio
'f/aca
de
Ca.ftro,
wh?
al–
fo
was a Knight of the Habit of Sr.
'fag~
(as his Father
was)
there was.
a
_Rent given
· him
of twenty thoufand pieces of Eight, out of fuch Lots or D1v1fions
as he
fuould chufe and efieem of chat value.
I
remember to have
feen
this Gentleman
at
Nombre
de
Dios,
as he paffed in the Retinue of the Count
de Nieva
(who
was
fent for Vice-king of that Kingdom in the year
1560.)
and went then to cake pof–
feffion of that Eftate, which was the reward of his Father, who, to fpeak widiout
:Battery or partiality, was generally
r~puted
to have been the beft
<;Tov~rno~
that
ever had paffed into thofe parts ; as 1s agreed by
all
the three Hillonans
m the
charaCl:ers which they give of him, there being not one
ill
action for which they
blame
him.
And now let
us
return aga1n to
Peru,
and relate what the Vice-king
Blafco
Nunne~
was contriving
all
this time.
The Vice-king
·ng retired
(as
Carate
reports
in
the fixteehth Chapter of his
Book) with about an hundred and
fifcy
men, at the time that
Bachicao
furprifed
the Ships in
Tumbe~,
he marched with them as far as the City of
~itu,
where
he was chearfully received, and
his
Souldiers re-inforced to the number of about
two hundred men, refolving
to
remain in that Countrey which yielded plenty of
provifions for the fubfifience of his men,
untill
fuch time
as
he received farther
Orders and InO:rutl:ions from his Majefiy: And taking good information
pf
all
things
that paffed from
Diego
Alvare~
de
Cuero,
he kept firong Guards, and Spies
on
all
the high Roads to inform himfelf of all
the
aetions that
Gonpllo
Pifarro
was
doing, though it
is
three hundred leagues difiant from
Los
Reyes
to
f2J!.itu
;
daring
which time
four
Souldiers, who were dlifatisfied upon fome occafion with
Pifarro,
fioal a Boat, and coafted all along the iliore from
Lo1
Reyes,
by the help of their
Oars, untill they came to a fuore which was the nearefi Sea to
~itu
;
where being
arrived, they informed the Vice-king of all paifages; how the People of
Los
Reyer
and other places were difcontented with the Government of
Pif_arro,
and with the
tyranny
which
he ufed towards them, ejeeting
fome
out of their Houfes
and
Elates, impofing Souldiers on free-quarter upon them, and other burthens
which
they were not able to fupport ; of which they were fo weary that upon the leaft
appearance of any perfon who orried an authority from his
Majefiy
they would
be
ready
to
joyn with
him,
to
cafi
off the yoke of that tyranny with which they
were oppreffed. By
which
intelligence, and many other things which the Soul–
diers
faid to him,
the
Vice-king being encouraged, refolved with the Forces he
had with
him,
to
march
from
fl!!_itu
by the way of St.
Michaels,
and made
Die
tie
Ocampo
chief Commander thereof, who had from the very tfcne that the Vice–
king came
to
Tumbe~
adhered
to
his Parry, and affified him with his Perfon and
Eftace, fupplying
him
with
all
things convenient and neceffary for
his
fervice
wherein he
fpent
above forty thoufand pieces of Eight.
In
all
thefe
Adventure~
Licenciado
Alvare~
accompanied the Vice-king, and held Courts with him by vir–
tu~
of
his
Majefl:y's
~ormniffion,
by which it was provided,. that the Vice-king
might hold Courts with che affifience
of one Co-aifefiour
untill
fuch time
as
the
odier
~udges
iliould
alfe~ble
and joyn
wi.ththem ; and it was thus provided by that
claufe
m
cafes of mortality or other accidents : and
in
purfuance hereof he caufed
a new Seal to be delivered to
(ohn Leon,
one of the
J
ufiices of
Los
Reyes
whom
the
fytarquis
of
Carnarafa,
Lord High Chancellour of
Caforla,
or of the
Indie.r,
had
nommated
and.
eleeted to be Chancellour of that Court wherein the
Vice-king
prelided, he bemg revolted to
him
from
Pifarro
;
fo that all Commiffions
War–
rants
and
Orders
iifued out from thence.under the Name
and
Title of
Do~ Carlo~
the Emperour, with the
~oyal
Seal affixe9 to them, and councerfigned by
Alv 11·
re~;
fo
tha~
no":7
the~e
bemg two Courts
m
Peru,
one at
Los Reyn
and
the other
with the V1ce-kmg, it frequently happened that two different Orders
for
the
fame
bufinefs
came
to be ferved
at the
fame time.. Thus far is related by
Carate.
CHAP.
711