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BooK
V.
Koyaf
Commentaries.
count of
all faccef{es,
do endeavour
to gratifte
my
c1-1rioftty
and
ttffellion
to
hu
Maj
e.ft/ 1in–
tercft
6y
faithful/ and true
informations,
which
~zeal
to
the
Crown fettles
and fixer in
my
memory,
&c.
•
The remainder
-0f
this Letter, for brevity fake, we omi, as impertinent and
little to our purpofe, for
it
refletts chiefly on the Vice..king
B/afco
Nunne~
Vela,
and
cafts the blame of all the mifchiefi paft on his mifcarriages ;
and
to
jull:ifie
himfelf be
fays,
that all
the
Cities
of
chat
Empire chofe. him
for
their Agent–
General · in
which capacity he
was
empowered by Comm1ffion from the
Judges
under
th~
great
Seal co drive out and expell
Blafco
NunneZJ
Vela
from the limits
of
chat Kingdom ;
and
that he att:ed nothing all that time but
by
their Warrant, and
by
virtue
of their commands.
.
With this Letter
Paniagua
was
difpatched
by
Sea, where we {hall leave
him
for a
while
co difcourfe of ether matters which
intervened;
onely before we con–
clude
this Chapter, we muft reflett a little on that
paffilge
of his Letter wherein
.
be
fay
chat of that
vaO:
tra&
f
Empire which he
and
his
Kindred
had
acquired
co t:._he Crown, not one Acre thereof was appropriated to his Family ; he means,
by
inheritance for ever,
as
the Lords in
Spain
hold their Lands, which were gran–
ted
to
them
by former Kings
in
reward of the ervices they had done
in
the Wars
againll: the
Moor1,
helping
to
fubdue
and
drh~e
them out of the Land.: for though
Gcnfalo Pi2arro
and
Hernando
Pifar10
were
fe1fe
of much Land, with command
over
Indians,
yet
they
held them onely for their lives, as did alfo the
Marquis
D on
Francifco Pi rarro
whofe Ell:ate was onely for Life, and never defcended
co
his
Children.
CH· A P.
VI.
The death of
Alonfo de Toro. Diego Centeno
and
the
other Captains come out of their Caves and places
of
re–
tirement, and appear for ·the fervi ce of
his Majefty.
Gon alo
p·
arro
fets all
his
hips
on
fire,
and what
was
the
faying of
C
rvaj
1
thereupon.
F
E rnandez. Paniagua
having received his difpatches and departed,
Gon2alo Pif_arrg
began to be troubled that he had received no advices or intelligences
from
Loren20
de
A ldana
either in relation
to
his
oyage, or
to
the Fleet then at
Panama,
nor of any other matter concerning
Pedro
de la Gafca
;
fo .
hat he
fuf
peeted fome–
thing
amifS,
in
regard the time did well admit of a return. Wherefore he difpatch–
ed Letters to
Captain
Pedro de P1telle1
his Deputy at
fl.!:!:itu,
and to
Captain
Merca–
di/lo
Governour of the City of St.
Michael,
to Captain
Pored
in
Paccamunu,
and
to
Captain
Diego de
Mora
at
TrHxillo>
adviling them to be
in
a readinelS
in
cafe he
fhould have occafion to call upon them for their affifi:ance, which he believed
would be very fpeedy; but when the Meffengers came to thofe places, they
found all the People already poffeff'ed with the news of a general Paraon, and of
the revocation of
the
late Ordinances (for the Prefident had taken care to difperfe
Copies
in
all part) upon publication of which there
was
a
general
defeetioo
i11
all
places
from
_Gonfalo Pi2arro :
the
like
Meffage was alfo fent to
Captain
Antoni~
de Roble1,
then m. tlie
Cicy
of
Co:uo,
to prepare and keep his People
in
a readinefs
to be employed m any future fervice which might offer : this Meffage was fenc to
A ntonio
de
RobleJ,
betaufe
Pifarro
was informed, that
Diego Gon2aleJ
de
Yargao
(with
whom~ ha~
acquain?nce) had
kill~d
Captain
Alonfo
de
Toro,
who
was Governour
under him
m
that
City:
the truth
IS,
the matter was
fudden
and neither contri–
ved
by
him who
kill~d
him, nor fufpeeted by the perfon 'who was flain ; for
Alonfo
de
Toro
was Son-m-law to
Diego Gonfale1,
and lod ed
in
the fame Houfe
to-
.
F
ff
ff
gether :