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tlooK
IV.
Royal Com1nentaries.
mak! aU
people
in thw and in the ages to ctJme
ackpowledge you and
.JOHr.r
for
their
/n,wf11H
Sovereign.
·
r..
h
.Alui,
to
ctmclude
all,
he the
event
'W~At
it 'Will,
/,et
me
advi[e
.JSH
to
ta~
t e Cr01Pn and.
Title
of
King
;
it
is
hut what you have
gained
f;y
your
-11rms
and.
Yalou~
;
and no.
left
Title
than that can
become
you: and
therefore I
cannot hut
~epeat.
it
aga!~
and again to
.JOH,
D.Jea King, and ?Wt a
Subject;
He that is contented man
ill
condmon,
defervu
If.
worfa.
I have
in
this Difcourfe of
Carvajafs
omitted feveral particulars which will
(oupd
ill
in the ears of Loyal
perfons ,
and gratifie the
h~nour
of ill-affected
per–
fons.
Thefe Difcourfes were not unpleafing to
Gonfalo Psr_arrtJ
,
who heard therrt
willingly, and cook it
fo
kindly from him, that
lie
would fo
f~r
concern
him–
felf for his ell:ablilhrnent in grandure , that he afterwards called him Father ; the
lame Advices were in
lik~
manner confirmed by
P_ed~o
1e
Pne/le.r?
Licenciado
CepedA,
·and
Hernando
Bachicao,
~uh
the concurrence of hJS mtimate Friends, who
as
Go–
mm-a
faith in Chap.
1
7
3.
were very many ; and gives
an
account of that
pafiage
in
thefe
words.
Francifco
de
Carvajal
and
Pedro
de
Puelles
wrote a Letter to
Pifarro
to give him-
felf
che Title of King ; and by that means
to
excufe the fending o( Ambafiadours
to che Emperour ; and in lieu thereof to provide good Horfes, Armour, Shot,
and Arms, which were the beft Advocates for jufiification of his Caufe; and
that he £hould apply thofe fifths, and rents and duties which
Cohos,
without de–
ferving any part thereof had carried away, unto his own ufe: fome were
of
opi–
nion not
to
yield the Countrey unto the King , but upon terms that he iliould
grant likewife unto them the inheritance of their Lands ; others faid that they
would make a King, as they thought fit, as had been pratlifed
in
Spain,
when
Pe/Ayo
and
Garci Ximenez..
were fet up. Ochers faid, that nnlefs the Government of
Peru
were given to
Pifarro,
and his Brother
Hernando Pifarro
fet at
liberty,
they
would call
in
the
very
7
urk.!
to their affifience : And all of them concurred
in
that
general opinion , that the Countrey was their own , and that they might make a
Divifion thereof amongft thernfelves ,
in
regard they had won
it
by conquell and
at the expeAce of their own bloud. Thus
far
Gomara,
which
Fern11nde~
Pakntino
confirms in the thirteenth Chapter of
his
fecond Book,
in
thefe words which I have
extracted from thence.
Thefe Aetions being ended, they marched to the City of
Los
Reyes,
difcourfmg
on the way of the methods which were now co be purfued. Some were of opinion
that the King would overlook all things that were
pall:,
and confirm
Gonfalo
Pif_ar–
ro
in the Government: others, more impudently faid, that it was no matter whe-·
ther the King did approve of things or not, for that his Commands would find
little effett or compliance ·n thofe parts.
Licenciado
Cepeda,
who was defirous to
flatter and pleafe
Pifarro
in all things, approved of the faying of
Hernando
Bachica
and ochers, that all the Kingdom and Dominion of
Peru
did by right and by juft
claim belong unto him : to prove which he produced many examples, whereby
it appeared chat many Kingdoms, Provlnces and Councreys which at firll were
gained by force of
Armsl
were afterward conferved, and afcer a long traet of time
were efieemed the hereditary Poffeffions, and devolved co pofiericy
by
an undeni–
able Title: wimefs the Kingdom of
Navarre;
and the reafon, form and manner
how thefe Kings were anointed, whicb he compared with the circumfiances of
p;J
f
arro;
and then he concluded, that never was any King upon the face of the Earth,
who at the beginning had ever a more
fair
and clear Tide to a Kingdom,
than
f.!on9alo Pifarro
had unto his: all which
Pifarro
heard with great attention and de–
light ; for befides thac humane nature
is
naturally ambitious of power and govern–
ment; his affettions were alfo for want of due confideration Jet loofe to the
im·
moderate def'tres
the~eof;
for he was a man naturally of a dull capacity , and
knew not how co wme or read ; and therefore made not thofe reflexions on the
confequences of things as thinking-men ufually do. And
in
regard chat
Cepeda
was a learned and a well
rea~ ma~
, and efieemed for his judgment and know..
le~ge,
every one.
approv~d
his faymgs , and none did contraditt or quefiion any
thmg chat wa_s faid by him , for
ch~
matter
w~
the whole fubjeet of their dif–
courfe at all times when
th~y
were m cooverfutton together. Thus far
Palentino.
We
~ave
formerl¥ mentioned yvhat
is
reported by
Gomara
concerning the
dut~es
which
Cobos
took without defervmg or domg any thing for them : the truth of
which
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