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Royal
Commentaries.
BooK
VI.
for your farvict and
advant1t.ge, than what I have already done
I earnej/ly
ent
follow the example
ofGod himfelf herein, that
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goo.
-will
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t
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on : an on
t
tJ
conjideration let
~ve:y
dne
fatiifie himfa!J with his lot
which though not
fa
large perhapJ
tU
he expelled, yet
tt
ts
M
great
tU
the divijio
d h
· '
would bear, and
lef.r
than. the DiftribHtor dcjired, and which he will increafe
whe:nen:bt:~
by
any fortunate opportumty.
And now after all
my
travels and
llllrour
s both
by
Si
d
Land
which
I
have [11.ftained
in
this
la.ftperiod of
my
life, I
pretend to no other
rewa
7//'
the
fatiifailion
of
having
acted according to that Talent which God hath given me
;
th~~
1
have difcharged mJ confrience towards God
IU
a Chri.(lian, towards the King '"'a fa:hf:ll
Sub;eil
,
and towards your [elves
tU
bec1tme
a
good ne1ghb0Hr and a true fervant.
And in–
deed,
if
you
ta~
not things, and ttnderftand them in the feme manner
-you
ill
requ't
the love .and alfeilion I hear you, and the care
an~
labours 1. have [uftaineJfor
JOUr
inter:;,
confidermg that on my part there hath heen no failure or omiflion to
advance
the fame.
And
fince, for the better fettlement
ef
the CoHrts
of
THdicature and the Affairs
of
Lima,
it
is we–
ceffery for
me
to be there prefent,
I
have deftred the
mo.ftReverend Father in God the Arch–
hifhop
to fupply
my prefence with
) 'OU
in
the
City,
and in my name
to
offer to
)'OU
'what
J
can
doe at prefent
,
and what I fhall be able to doe far the future.
And ha7.ling not farther
to add;
I
befaech God, that
I
may Live to
fee
you
all
in great profperit.] and
plenlJ'
and
em-
plOJed in his
ho!J
farvice
tU
.(ully and
IU
happi!J
IU
you
yoHr
felvc.t dejire,
'
Given at
Guap1arrma,
on the 18th day of
AHguft,
1
s
f8.
Subfcribed,
Your
Servant,
the
licencs'ado
Gafca~
Befides this Letter
and
Iofirtietions
given
to
rhe ArchbHhop , he gave
it in
charge
to
the Father
Provincial,
Frier
Thoma1
de
San Martin,
chat
he
fhould make
a Sermon on the day of the
Publication,
and therein exhort the Pretenders to be
contented every man with his portion allotted; and co deal with them
in
private,
and
perfuade chem thereunto. All which
Hernande~
Palentino
writes more at
large,
which we
have
abbreviated,
to
avoid prolixity and tedioufnefS to the Reader;
and
is
as followeth
:
When
it
was known in
Co~co
chat the Prelident was retired privately co avoid
the troublefome importunities of
the
People ; one Caprain
Parda11e,
being
in
dif.
courfe with other Captains; on my Confcience
faid
he, chis
Madalena de la
Crni:.
is
retired fome where
privately
to put aa
Har11na
upon us, for in
Peru
they
call
chat
Harana,
when a man who hath loll: his money
at
gaming plays fome Trick or
Sham co avoid payment. And amongfi other Nick-names given the Prefident,
they called him
Madalena de la
CrH~,
whi h was as much as Cheater or Sorcerer,
and was che name of chat Woman who was punHhed by the Officers of the fo..
quifition in
Cordona :
And
the truth is , the Prefidenc , not to hear fach
infolenc
Speeches as thefe, retired from
Co~co
that he might have liberty to make the
Difiributions, and removed farther from
it
when they were publifhed, as
Palen·
tino
faith
in
the fecond Pare, and
Chapter
the firfi of his Hill:ory, in thefe words:
It was well knm n that the Prefidenr abfenred himfelf from
Co~co,
that he
might
not be prefent at the time when the Dill:ribucion of Lands
i
as publilhed;
for he was prudent and fubtile, and underfiood by good experience the nature of
the Countrey ; and feared much the
Infol
nces of the Souldiers, and co hear their
C mpl
int ,
Oaths and Curfes : And indeed herein he was not deceived ;
for
wh n the Ar h-bifhop was arrived at
Co~co,
where almoft all the
Inhabitant
and
Souldiers were a mbled, expeeting to receive great proportion of and and
Government:
they
appeared
quiet and orderly:
but
fo foon a
the
publicati
n
was ma e, on the
24th
of
Aug11jf,
being the F fiival of Saint
Bnrtholomew
\
here–
by
finding
them elv s mu h difappoimed of
their
hopes, they began
to
cu~fe
and
f\vear, and to utter many edicious expreffion againfi the Preli enc
an~
hi Go–
vernment , to chat higb degree, chat all thing teemed to tend
to
murmy and
~
new rebellion. Her
upon
rh
y
began to
enter
into Cabals and fecret Conful
tt–
ons
how in
che
firfi place they
ight
kill the Judge
Andres de eianca ,
and
t
e
Arcl1-
l op, "horn rhey efieemed the Authoa s
f
the Difiributions.
T
e
u e and groun of their
fury
and
rage they
alledged
to
be
·e allocmenr made
f
pdndp.:il Places
and ,Lands
to
thofe
who
had been the
oUowers and
Abetco~f