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VI..
Royal
Commentaries.
LIMA.
I am the City
of
Lime,
who
came the ftrft
in tsme,
All h.11ppinefa to bring
Vnto our Lord the King.
TRVXI LL 0.
J'm
called the
ity
of
Truxillo,
who with
true
Loyalty
C11me
with
my
men
to
ferve
hu
MajeftJ.
In
like manner,
Pyura
f2.!!.ito Guanuco
and the
ChachapoyM
;
alfo
GHamanca, Arequipa, Couo
and
the
cha:.cM
pr~femed
themfelves before the Prefident with Verfes to the
Ci
me
fubfiance
~before·
\ hich being all in
ogerel rithm, were
fcarce
worchy of a
Tran£lation into
Englijh;
and indeed the Authour is of the fame opinion, for he
faith, that they
ere
fo
dull and infipid, that they favoured more of
Jndum
than
Spanifh
c
mpofure.
But
to
return now to the Reafons which
Palentino
gives for the foundation of
the City of eace, which we have already mentioned; we cannoc allow that the
prevention of obberi
could be any motive or reafon for the building of that
City : for fuch hath been the generofity of that Empire called
Peru,
f
hi
h
may be faid what cannot be faid of any othet
·ngdom of the World, namely,
that from the
onque!l: thereof, \ hich ' as in the year
1
5
3
1
t
chis \ ery time ,
which is to ard the end of
161
o,
it
was never kn0\\
1
n or heard that eicher pu
Ii
k–
ly or privately any R bberies had been committed ; nor have any Merchants and
Dealers ever been affaulced on the high
ay ,
though they ha e been kno n to
carry with them vafi uantities of Gold and
ilver over
efarts and Mountains
for the fpace of three or four hundred leagues; and have travelled\ ith fuch fecu–
ricy
that
they
adventured
to
lye in the field
day
and night
ithouc other defence
or
~ard
than their mere Ten
, \ hich · a thing
fo
commendable, as is
fi
oken
of both in the
Indies
and in
Spain
greatly to the nonour and praife of this Empire..
We mean that fuch fecurity as thi ,
i
in time of Peace, and not in the time of
War; for then , a we ha e faid before , there is nothing but fpoil and robbery
where
iolence and arbitrary Po er, and not Law, prevail.
I
C H A ' P.
VII.
The Cares and
Troubles which
the
Pr
fi
lent
fi
fufl ineJ.
How he punifhed fonze People that were in a Mutiny.
With
what Patience he endured fevered
infolent
Speeches
of the
S culdiers:
and
how
be
pacified
and }ati5fied the
Pretender'".
T
HE
Court of Judicature being now efl:a lifhed in the City of
L o1
Reyes;
the Prefident applied himfelf to order fuch matter as tended ro the quiet
and fecurity of the Empire, and appointed that the Gofpel and Chrifiian Doc–
trine fhould be taught and prea hed co
th~ ~atives.
He commanded alfo, that age..
neral furvey fhould be made of all the
D1
1fions \ hi h had been made, and of the
Tributes whi h the
Indians
were
tO
pay to their Lord ,
hich' ere moderately
impofed and regifired, {(
chat
it
ibould not be in the pO\ er of the Lords at any
tim~
to
;aife
that Rent or Tribute.
In
which
affair
Licenfiado Ciavca,
Qne of
hi
Ma1efl:y s
J
ud~es
wa employed , and
to
that purpofe he was fent to the
ity
of
Les
Reye.r,
havmg
firfi fuppreffed a
frnall
mutiny caufed at
Co~co
by the Divifions
lately
.·