774 / 1060
Royal Commentaries.
BooK
IV.
Sir,
faid he,
A
P'ice-kjng
hath
heen
kjlled in
hatttl, and
hu
Head
cut off
b;)
#
pub/ick.!J
placed on the common Gihbet. After
we
ha
e
waged
War
again.ftthe
Ra
~,'
"'
dard
of
hu Majefty, and h1n1e been the ca1tfe
of
the
effi1fion of
fo
m11
ch bloHd
v ·
t.t
-
mitud
fo many (poils,
!ind robberies
,
and
OHtrages Hpon the people;
111hat place
~a':
cvm:
[pell
for
mercy and
pardon
from
the King
?
flay
,
if
TPe
/hordd
come
off upon
An~;
t.t f
agreement, and that
you
could juftifie
JOHr
falf, 11nd
jheTP
a&
clear
an inn
oc 11ce
114 1
J/
e~.;d
wmch
fHckf at
the
breaft; yet,
what JeCUrity
can
there
be
to
re/7
on the
mo.ftfa/em;
t
J
and
promifas
that can
be
made
you
?
Whenf
ore
,
I
conclude, t"hat
you
h1tve
no
(.efelJ
ht
b.J
takjng upon you the
authorfry
af
a
King,
hy
whichyott
will
better
facure yo11r
govn-iJm
11
:
th1tn
by
expeClations to
nceive
it
from another
hand.
Plant
t
c Cro'Wn upon
.JOHr
own
head
and
divide
the Lands amongft your
own
friends
and
creatHres :
that -which the
Ki . ,
hath
granted for
two livn
one!J
,
do
;ou give
th~m
the
fe~jimp_le
and inheritance
of, lllith
Titles
of
Duk!s,
MarqHeffe1,
and Earls
,
a&.
u
ufa11tl
in
~ll
the Kingdoms
of
the World,
lT>ho
w10
he
thereby
engaged
to defend
you
,
whdft
th~
fight m defence
of
their
own
Eftates
and
Fortunes.
You
~ay
ttl(o
cre1tte
new Orders. of 'l_(mghthood,
calling
them with the Jame
names
tU
are 11fed
in
Spam ,
or
by
the denommatzon
of
other Saints to whum you
are
mure
particularly devoted, andyou may frame other Badges
a5
are moj/ agreeable to your fancy.
and
fech
tU
you fhall
ma~
Knights
of
the Habit
,
you maJ ajfign them R nts and PenflO:S
to
live
upon and
enjoy
for a
term
of
life,
tU
u
common every where to the Mi.litary Orders.
Jn
thu
mdnneryou will
engage
all the
Gentry
and Nobility
of
the
Spaniards,
who rejide
in
this
Empire,
to your Party, and draw
thofe
in
who
are
averfe.
And
to
br;ng the
lndj..
ans
jn
L"k!wife
to
JOHr
{ervice and devotion
,
and
to
d1e
for JOU
,
M
thry
do
for their own
natural Prince.
1
would perf1tu:tde you
to
marry
that Princefs which
ss
nettreft
of blo11d to
the Royal
Fami!J:
in order TPhereunto, I TPould
have
you {end
Amb11Jfado11rs
to
the
M01111-
tain1,
where the
Inca,
who is Heir to thi.s
Empire,
doth now
rejide;
de/iring him to quit
bi
1
.fo/r:tary
habitation,
th11t
[o
you
may
rcftore him to the
M1tjeftJ
and Grandslre
of
his
Empire;
and that he
W()U/d
with his own hand give hi.1 Sifter or Daughter in marriage to
JOI!.
]t
if
not to be doJthted bHt that he will
he
infinitely proud and oiJerjOJed
lllith
this AUittnce :
And
foch will bo the 1miverfal fatiifallion and contentment
of
his Subjefls
in reftoring their
Inca
to hi.s power and dominion,
that they
wsll chearfHl{y
obey
what
farvil
Offices foevn-
their
Incajh1tll
command them for
your
farvice
5
tU
the
carriage
of
yo11r
provifions,
thpo–
pulating
Towm
where
your
Enemies are to pajs
,
makjng way1 and
rMd.s TPhere JOU
fhaO di–
refl.
And,
in
fine, you will hereby engage all the
Indians
to he
of
yo11r fide : for it
111011/d
he a great inconv
enieJ11Ce to an Enem_J to want people to
c11rry
their
haggage, withQ1Jt
lJ!hich
they
c11n
faarce
pa.fsin the Countrey.
And
tU
to the
Inca,
he will
content
himfalf with
the hare name and
title
of a King; andyou many fujfer hi1 Subjefls to
obey him
in
the timu
of
peace,
a&
they did hi.1
AnceftourJ
in former age.1.
And
tU
to
your
falf,
You 11ndyoHr
M.–
nifters and
Captains
may
rule and govern the
Spaniards,
and require the
Inca,
TPhen occa–
jion fervu, to cormnand his
Indians
to perform {uch and fuch
f
ervice;
tU
JO#
jh11.I/ appoint;
and
by
thefe means you will fecure
them
to
he
f
aithfHll
to
JOH,
and
engage them to be
trHe,
11nd not
fa!fe,
and
SpyeJ,
M
thCJ
have
been to both jiths.
Moreover,
you
will
by
this frimdjhip
of
the
Inca
llmafs
All
the
Gold
and
Silver
that
tlit
Indians
dig throughout the Empire, and feeing
they
efteem not
of it
tU
riches
or treafure,
they
will, in reward
of
the
reftauration
of their Prince and on the {core
of
JOHr
aOiance with
them, he eaji/y induced
~o
difcover to
JOH
aO the treafure whsch hath been hidden
by
their
An–
cefto11r.1 :
which
wiO amount to
that
vaft riches, that (
M
the [a.Jing
i1 )
you may
there·
with purchafe the
whole
World,
in cafe you
are
ambitiOU&
to
lu
the
{ole
Monarch
of
it.
A111l
let not that he any fcruple to you,
that
you
herehy
ufarp qn the dmninion of the King
of
Spain ;
for
when -you. are a King (
tU
the faying is)
.JOH
can doe no
wrong.
This
Cmn–
trey did once belong to the
Inca's ,
who
were
the natural Princes t"hereof,
fa
that it
properlj
belongs to them
;
11nd
if
a11.J right
may
he
c/11imed
on the ftore of
Conqueft,
it helongs not to
the King
of
Cafiile,
but
to
]OU
and your
Broth~r.t
,
who gained it at
;our
own
expence,
And with hardjhips and ha;:..ards
of
JOJ<r
Livu.
And now therefore to re/fore again the Government to tlie
Inca,
the nat11ra/ L<Jrd there·
of,
it
is a piece
of
generofi!J founded on the Law
of
NatHre
;
and thereby alfo
yo:t mil
tloe
right
toyoHY
fa/f,
for
it
is
not reafon that you
who
are
the
Conq11ero1tr
of
an Empire
fho11!d
he
a SIAVe
and
S11bjell
in
it;
or
that
he,
who
by
the
valour
of
hi1
Arr11e h
th
made
him–
felf
a King
,
jbould out of a meannefs and pujillanimity of
fjirit
render him(
elf aYaf{al or
a
Subjell in
it.
The
f11ccefs
of
all thefe Ailions conjifts in mak!ng good the
fir.ft/feps
ttntl
gradations to
it;
And therefore I befuch
011
f
en"oufly
to
confider of
lPh
tt
1
have
propo
ed,
which'
if
wen
p11rf
ud'
wiO
certain{]
tend to
JOllr
ejlablifhmmt
!1
thi.1 Empire'
And
111At