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VI.
Royal
Com1nentarie1.
faocJ pieces of
Eight
of yearly Revenue:
fo
that the ten lots and divifions which
we
have mentioned
ro
have been afiigned in the
Charcat,
in
Arequepa
and
in
Couo,
did
in the total amount unto five hundred and forty thoufand pieces of Eight coined,
which make Ducats of
Caftile
near fix hundred and fifty rhoufand. So foon
as
the ArchbHhop
Loay[a,
and the Secretary
Pero Lopez de Cafalla
cam~
to
Couo
they
publilhed the lots and difiriburions which were made ; and read the Prefident>s
Letter to thofe unhappy men for whom no
provifio~
was found: and the Father
Provincial made
a
Sermon perfuading them co patience, which operated little up–
on them; for they
flew
out
in
oaths, curfes and opprobrious fpeeches againfi the
Government, as
all
Authours confirm: admiring at the wonderfull profufenefs
and prodigality which was ufed towards thofe men who in reality deferves no–
thing:
for
it is moll: certain, that amongfi thofe to whom difiributions were made
of forty or fifty thoufand pieces of Eight of yearly rent, there were fome, who,
being confcious of their engagement on
Pi
farro's
fide, and their evil aetions
in
de–
nying the Vice-king
Blafco
Ycla Num1ez:.,
againll: whom they raifed Arms, perfecu–
ted
him
to the death, and afterwards
fixed
his head upon the Gallows ; thefe men,
. I
fay,
and others, as Hifiories record, who having impioufly rebelled againfi
his
Imperial Majefiy, expeeted death, or at leall: baniiliment ; would have been
fuf–
ficiently contented and thought
it
a mercy
to
enjoy onely the benefit of the gene–
ral
Pardon, without other rewards or provHions made
for
them: an example
whereof may be given of
Martin
de
Robles,
who, when he underfl:ood what
allot–
ment was made him, was furprifed with the excefs of fuch abundant favour
:
and
in
fen[e thereof, faid to chofe who fiood by;
'Tis
well,
'tiJ
well,
hut
fo
much
good
u
no good;
meaning that it was not good for thofe who deferved
fo
little to be rewar..
ded fo much. Some few months afterwards this
Martin
de
Roble1
was fined by
·Sentence of the chief
J
ull:ices
in the
furn
of twelve hundred Ducats,
for
having
been acceffory to che imprifonmenc of the Vice-king
Blafca Nunnez Vela,
and en–
gaged
in
the caufe of
Gon_yalo Pi2arro;
the
which
Fine was adjudged co be given
to
Diego Alvarez.. Cueto,
who was Brother-in-law to the Vice-king, and who
pro–
fecuted
de
Robles
and others of
Pifarro's
Party. And when this Sentence was noti–
fied to him :
what,
faid he,
no more,
I
that
wM
the man
who
took..
the
Ytce·kf:ng
?
No,
faid the Clerk, your Fine
is
no more.
Well,
an[
wered he,
1
could
have
heen
conten–
ted with ten times
tU
much.
And thus prefumptuous and boafiing they were of the
exploits they had done that they valued themfelves much upon them, and adven–
tured to utter thefe and many other bold Sayings on this matter,
in
prefence of the
Prefident himfelf, of which we !hall fpecifie fome few particulars hereafter, and
omit others, which are not
fie
to be here mentioned.
·
I
· C H A P.
. lVo
Francifco Hernandez Giron,
without any reafon, !hews
himfelf
greatly
difpleafed
for
the divifion which was
allot–
ted to him. : a Commiflion
io
given hint to
ma~e
a new
Conquefi.
The
puni/hment of
Francifco de Efpinofa
and
Diego de Carvajal.
'
N
Ocwith!l:anding
~efe
rich and
l~rge
difiributions of above rwo millions and
a
half
<?f
yearly Revenue; which one Authour fays
\Vas
but a million, and
ano
the~ a million and
forty
odd thoufand
p~eces
ofEight; yet the Pretenders were
not
fat:J.Sfied, and
gene~ally
complained, iome becaufe
they
had no fhare aflotted,
and
others were fcandalized co fee thore rewarded with fuch excelS of prodigality
who
nev~r
had
~een
c?ncerned in the Conquefi of the Countrey ; nor rendred
oth - ferv1ce to
hIS
MaJell:y than onely co rife
in
Rebellion againll: him
to
kill
his -tee-king, and afterwards to fell and betray the Tyrant unto the P;efidenr,
:vhom before
they
had fofired and maintained: but he who appeared publickly
,
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