764 / 1060
•
Royal
Cmnnientaries.
BooK
IV.
ed of him, as he did of others, th
t
he
\'\·as
a perfon noble and
fincere
L
·c
• ·
do
_Cepr:d1t
t~~
Judge,
of horn
we
have
been
too filent, accompanied
Pl
farr:
r~all
this exped1uon, and
.
1
as prefent at the
Batt~l, a~d
_fought more like a Souldi
cha~
a Lawyer.
Wh1lft
~hefe
matters\: ere m
ag1cat1on,
Pi2arro
held his Court
at
~ztu,.
from whence he d1fpatched all Orders and J?ec
ees
v.h'ch he had made for
the qui
t
a~
peaceable Government of the
E~p1re
; for ha ing defolved.
the
Coult .of
J~d1cat~re, ~e
aeted
fingly,
and by his own
authority;
Judge
Cepl'.da
~
as
w1~h
him,
L1cencuuio
Alvare~
was dead, Dod:our
Texada
was g-0ne into
Splfin;
m
quality of Ambaifadour,
Carate
was
the
onely
Judge remaining
ac
Los Reyes
but
he' as infirm, an
d fickly, and
unable
to alt any thing in the
matt~rs
of
Jutlice ..
~herefore G_o»f~lo
Pif.tt~ro, bei~g
the
f?le
Admini~ratour
of
the Laws, took
up0~
him to acquit h1m
felf mthe
d~fpenfauon
o.f
J
ufhce, for
che
quiet and
peace
-of
the
Land,
to
the benefit of
Indians
:md
SpamardJ,
and
propagation of
the Chriili–
an Faith.
As
Frandfco
Lope~
de
Gor11tera
affirms
in
the
133
th Chapt r
of
bis
Hifto–
ry, the
Title
of
which
is
this:
Of
the
good
Guvermnent of
Gon~alo Pi~arro
during
the
abfence
ef
Francifco de
Car~
vajal;
and
how afterwards, at the
I11ftigation of
f
cveral perfon1,
he
would tak,p up–
on him the Title of King.
All the time that
Car·vajal
was abfent from.him
Pipirro
put no
Spaniard
to death
w
irhout the confent and concurrence of his Council,
nor
then neither
~
ithGut
due Procefs of Law and Confeffion of the
Party.
He enacted, that no man il
iouldoppre~
an
Indian
;
which
was
one of
the
new Ordinances,
nor take
his
goods
fr.omhim without money, upon pein of death. He ordered and
appointed
chat
P
riefisand cholars
iliould be entertained
in all
inhabited
places for to
preach and
in:–
firuet the
Jndian.r,
at the charge of en who had
Efiates
in the refpec1ive Di-.
{hi&,
and ordered the payment thereof upon
penalty
of forfeimre of their E–
fiates. He was very careful! and indu(hious to garher in the King's fifths., accor–
ding (as
he
fa
id ) to the example of his Brorher
Francifco Pifarl"o.
He
ordained,
chat Tithes
G1ould
be or one our
of
T n : and tbat now ,
fince
Bla[co Nunnez.
was
fubdued and !lain in
the
War,
he
commanded,
chat
every
one iliould indulhi–
oufly
apply himfelf
to
the fervice of the
King,
that fo his
Majefiy mighc
gratiouf–
ly
be
pleafed to repeal
the
late
Statures, confirm
to
them
thei · Efiates,
and grant
them pardon for what was pall:. Thus all people praifed his pru ence, and remained
contented and fatisfied under his Government;
fo
chat
Ga/ca
himfelf, after he had
made experience, and feen the
good
and wholfome Laws which he efiablHhed,
gave this charaeter of him, that, for a Tyrant, he governed very well. The which
happy Government, (
as
we hav
faid before) continued untill fuch time as
that the Fleet was refigned to the command of
Gafea.
Thus far
Gomarn.
And as
to
what
he farther adds in that Chapter, we fhall leave untiU a more
proper place; and in the mean
rime
treat of fe
eral
remarkable
palfages
and
fu–
mou exploits
hi
h pa!Ied ; and lea ing
Gonfalo
Pifarro
in
l!2..!!.itu,
we fball make
a
tranGtion
of about feven
hundred
Leagues,
t
fina
out
Franci.fco
de
C
rvaj11l
and
Diego
Cemeno,
' ,
horn we left difputing their Matters,
and
doing all the hurc and
damage
chey
could
co
each other, as
will
farther ap ear
in
the
following
Chap–
ter.
CHAP.