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HAP.
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Francifc~
Hernandez Giron
proclai111s
his Conznziffeon
and
Dejign for
111ak.ing a new
Conqueft,
upon which 111any Soul-',
Jiers flock.. to him; which caufes great
Diflu~bance
and
Mutinies
in
Cozco,
hut
is
fuppre/fed
by
the
Prudence
and
Moderation of
follze
Citi'Z,ens.
L.
Eaving now the P refident
Ga[ca,
Bi!hop
of
Cignenpt
entombed with
Enfigrfs
-
and Scutchions ofhonour and fame; we muft in the next place make a long
and
fpeedt· tranfition from
Ciguenfa
to
Coz:.co,
wpere we
!hall
find many fudden
alterations ;
for
fo foon as the Prefident
Gafaa
was
departed
for
Spain,
all the
Jn:
habicants of divers Cities returned to their refpeltive homes and places of aboad, ·
-every
one to
look
after his particular concernrnents : amongft which General
Pei.
dro
de
Hnojofa
was one, and Captain
Francifeo
Hernande~
Giron
went to
Coz:,co,
pa:..
.
blHhing
on
his
way thither the Commiflion he had received to make a new Conl.
queft;
and
in order thereunto he appointed feveral Captains to lifi: men in
Hu~manc1e
and
Arequepa,
and
in·
the new Plantation: whilfi: he himfelf, with great
folemnity , by found of Trumpet and beat of
Drum
proclaimed his Delign and
Commiffion
in
Coz:,co;
upon
•ch
publication above two hundred Souldiers
flocked
to him
from all parts ,
~r
he
was
a popular man, and well peloved by
· the Souldiery.
Such a number being got together., took a liberty
to
fpeak of the
late Tranfaltions according to their humours, and
to
vilifie and contemn the Pre–
fident and
~he
Governours he had left
in
the
Empire ; and
fo
publickly fcanda–
lous and irn_pudent was their difcourfe;
that the Governours of the City
though~
'it time to
find
ways to fupprefS
it:
and
rohn de
Saavedra,
who was then Mayor of
the Town, defired
Hernandez. de Giron
to expedite his departure as foon
as
poffible,
that they
might
be freed from the infolence of the Souldiers.
For though
-rh~
Captain hirnfelf entertained feveral of chem
in
his
own Family; yet the reff
were quartered on the Citizens in their private Houfes: which though it were an
aggrievance
to
them; 'yet,
as
Palentino
faith, they were unwilling
co
part with
tnem, becaufe this expedition deprived them of their People ;
fo
that in cafe his
Majefry fhould impofe any thing on them to their farther prejudice, they fhould
.be difenabled from making oppofition to encroachments on their Eftates and Pri·
vileges, as they had formerly done with good fuccefs,
&c.
·
For my part,
I
know not whence this relation iliould
proc~ed;
for
it
is well
known
that
it
had been much better for the Citizens to have the Souldiers employed in
di:
frant
and remote enterprifes, than to lye at free _quarter upon them ; being obliged
to maintain fome four or five, fame
flX
or feven, in their houfes; and to afford
them meat, drink and lodging, with cloaths and other conveniences
!
and how
then it can be as this Authour faith,
I
know not, fince
it
is
plain and evident,
that
the Inhabitants were confumed and undone by thofe chargeable Guefrs.
But
we muft excufe this Hitlorian in many paffages related by
him , for
he \\las not ·
perfonally prefent when they were acted, but received his informations
from ·
others which are often doubcfull and contradictory, and fo
full
of mutinies
1
thaf
every page is filled with them, whereby
all
the Inhabitants,
as
well as Souldiers
ar~
rendred Traytors and difloyal to the Government :
All
which we £hall
lay
afide, as not pertinent to this Hifiory, and fhall onely infill: on the moll: material
paffage'>,
~f
which I
my
felf
was a Wimefs;
having been prefent
in
Coz..co,
when
FMn'Cif
C'O
H~rnande~
and his Souldiers made their firft dHl:urbance : And I was alfo
prefenr at the fecond mutiny
which
paffed about three years afterwards :
all
which
I
ob_ferved, without any notice taken of me; for
I
was a very boy, and had noc
attamed the age of a young man ; howfoever, I bad
fo much
underfianding as
to
fee and
obferve the difcourfes
wl1ich
my
Father
made
of
the feveral affairs
which
pafled
in that Empire. And therefore
I
can truly aver,
that
thefe
Souldiers
carri.:
ed
rhemfelves
fo proud
and infolent, that the Government
was
forced
to
take no-
- tice of
it,
and
confult
a
r~mfdy
'
whi~h
when
the
Souldiers
anderfiood ,
they,
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