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Boot{ VI.
fore _he
had
fet
fall
he
re~eiv~d
a
J?acq~et
from
his
Ma}efty which
feafonably ca
to~
hands, and therem his
Ma,efl:y
s Royal Signature, to take off
the
P
fc
male
Services.
er
on
And now,
whereas
he was
very fenGble that the Coumrey
was
much
un
·
and
difcontenced, and
full
of
ill
affected men,
by
reafon of the Divifions
qutet
ef
GuaJnarima
;
and becaufe many of the King's
true
and faithfuII Servants
made
l€fc
defl:iture and unrewarded, whilfl: thofe who had taken
part
with
Gen
liv
~~
. f
arro
h~d
fhared amongfl:
themfelv~
the richeft and befi of
all the
Co~~e
':
And bemg now refolvea upon
his
aeparcure, he publifhed a Proclamation
whe!e·
by
he
fufpended the execution of his Majefly's Royal Signet for taking
off
perf0:
r!al fervices
untill he
had rendered
a
r~lation
co his.
~ajefiy
of the true fiate of
that
Councrey, and ofwhat elfe he conceived appertammg
to
his Majefiy's fervice
al
ledging
~is
power
fo
to
doe,
in
regard. his Cornrniffion and Authority
did'
no~
c~afe
unt1ll he had perfona!ly app_eared
m
the
prefen~e
of his Majefiy,
and given
him
a verbal account
of
his Affairs, and received h1s pieafure therein.
And
fo
on .Monday following he made
fail ,
carrying
all
the Gold and Silver wirh
him
which he had been able
to
gather. Thus
far
Palentino,
~
h6
therewith concludes
th~
Chapter.
. C HA P.
VI1I. ·
The caufe of the Stirrs and lnfttrre8iions in
Peru.
Some
Pe1fo11s condenined to the Ga/lies are entrufied
to
Rodri–
. . go Ninno
tio
condua
theni into
Spain:
His great
dif-
.
cretion
and
wit,
whereby he freed
hin1f~lf
fro11l
a
Pyrate.
N
0
W
as to
what
this Authour mentions touching the fofpenGon
which
the
Prefident made of rhac All:, whereby his Majefiy
rakes
off
the per–
fonal fervices, that
is,
the Cervices which
Indians
perform to the
'Spaniard.r:
It
is
cle~r
and apparent that thofe lace Ordinances executed, with Jhe
rigour and
ill
nature of the Vice-king
Blefco
N11»ne~
Vela,
were
the caufe of
all
chafe
Commotions which harafied
the
Empire , and coels: away
the
life.
of
rhe
Vi~e~
king, and had been
the
defiruction
of
fo many
SpaniardJ
and
IndiAn.1
as
bave
been related in this Hifrory.
And whereas the Prelident
himfelf
brought the
revocation of thefe Ordinances, and by means thereof and by his wife
and dif.
creet management, rhe Empire was again recovered
-and
refiored to
the
obedi–
ence
@f
his Majefty.
le
neither feerned
juft
nor decent for his Imperial Mafefiy,
nor agreeable
ro
the particular honour of the Prefidenc
to
introduce
thofe new
Laws and Statures
again
which
were formerly rejeeted and
made
void,
efpecially
chat of freeing
the
Indians
from perfonal fervices towards tneir Lords,
which was
the chief caufe of
aII
the cornplaincs and troubles amongft them: for which rea..
fon the
Pr~fident
often
fa
id to fevera1 of his frie
nds, ·chat he was refolved not to
put that Law in execution unrill he had firfi by
wo.rdof mouth difcourfed
w
irh
his Majefty of the inconvenience thereof; well
k
nO\ ing by experience, that
that
Law
oulcl
never be digefied by the people,
but
always
prove
a:
Scandal
and
Of–
fenc;e,
~ncl
perhaps put
all
things again into c::onfofion and embroile, whenfoever
the fame Were but moved, or iotreaty onely to be
put
in execution.
But
rhe
De:.
vil (
as
\~
e have before mentioned) defigniog to interrupt the peace of
rhat Coun–
rrey,
d
at
thereby he
might
hinder
the
propagation of rhe Gofpel
and
rhe increafe
of Cnrifiiaoity, contrived
all
means
to
unfecde and
disjoim
that
Kingd?m ,
and–
in
ord~r
tt=iereunto he fo blinded the underfianding
of
the Lords of the Pnvy-coun..
di,
that they perfuaded bis Majell:y to rake fuch meafures as tended
to
che.gre~(
preju<d·
ce
and confuGon 0£
chat
Kingdom ;
and
henc~
thofe
~
ars
had
their
on..
ginal,
wnich fucceeded
to
thofe lately fupprelfed, being earned on by
D()n Sc6a–
jfiAn
de
aftitla
and
Francifa,0
1
Hernandgz.
Giron,
whofe· pretence and quarrel
was the
fame
good old Caufe onely
to free themfelves from the uneafie
burchen
of
thofe
'
,
Statures,..