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VI.
Royal
C01nmentariel'.
The J11flices
fe?td
a
11ew
Mayor to
Cozco,
who doth
jujiice
upon
the
Mutiniers.
.
The Original of thefe Diflurhances
i5
here related.
,
U.
p
ON the rumour which
Don
fohn
de Mendofa
caufed to be fpread in the
City of
Los
Reye1,
the Judge appointed the
~arefchal
Alonfo
de Alvanedo
to
be
Mayor of
Cou:o,
giving
him
Comrniffi.o~
to
p~m(h.
the infolent and mutinous
Soul<liers there, and
JO
hinder that growmg Evil which .for want of due correcti–
on was come
to
a degree unfopporrable.
S?
foon as th1s new Officer was come
•
to
Coz:.co,
he apprehended fome of the Sould1ers, yvho
to
fave
thernfelves
had im–
peached a certain Citizen called
D on Pedro Portocarrero:
And
having
well examined
the caufe of the principal Mutiniers , who .were
Franci.fco
de
Miranda
and
Alonfa
H.ernande<:. Melgarejo ,
he hanged them up without any regard
to
their
Nobility,
though they claimed the privilege of Gentlemen. The which when
Alonfo Barri–
one11evo
knew, who was alfo condemned, he fent to the Mayor or Governour,
, defiring that he might enjoy the privilege of a G.entlema'?, that
is,
that he might
have his Throat cut, and not be hanged ; alledgmg that m cafe he were hanged;
he fhould defpair
of
his Salvation..-nd be condemned everlallingly
to
the
Tor–
ments ofHell. At the inftance
o~errain
friends, the Governour granted the re–
quefi, and with fame unwillingoefs commanded
his
Throat to be cue ; which I
know
to
be
true,
becaufe I faw
them
all
three
after
they were
dead; for,
being a
Boy at that time, I had the curiofity to fee chafe things as they paffed :
f
lX
or _
feven others were
banHhed
out of the Kingdom, the refi made their efcape away.
But as to
Don Pedro Portocarrero,
he remitted his caufes to the Lords
J
ullices, who
having examined him, fee him at liberty.
Palentino
[peaking of
Francifcn
.de
Mi–
ran.d4-0ames
him for a Citizen of
Co~co;
whereas in reality he was not, unlefs
we
will
give the tide
of
Citizen
to
any Inhabitant, afcer the
Caftj!ian
Sryle, diffe–
rent
to
the Cufiome ufed in
PerH
and
Mexico,
where none is called a Citizen,unlefs
he hath a Plantation, and a Command over
Indians
in va1falage to him
:
and
is
oh-;
liged (as we noted in the .firft Part
of
thefe Commentaries) to maintain his Hou–
fes in the place of his refidence : but
Miranda
could claim nothing
of
this marrer
for I
knew
him very well , for a Niece of his was bred up
in
the fame houfe with
me, fhe
was
born
of an
Indian
mother, and proved
a
woman
of
great probity and
vertue. Some few months after this punifhment executed, .
a
fmall
difiurbance
hapl'ened,
of
which
Palentino
makes
a
long
Story;
though in reality
it
was rather
a
Pretence raifed to take revenge upon a poor Gentleman, who, without any ma–
lice, had undertaken to give an account of Baftardies
in
feveral great and ancient
Families , and not onely on the man's
fide,
but on the woman's fide alfo: but
what thefe Families were, there is no reafon we fhould mention in particular.
Moreover, there were feveral other difcoments in thofe days which turned into
publick
mutinies;
the
punifhmem
ofall which fell upon a poor young Gentleman
~nely,
not of above
tw
enry four years of_ age,. called
Don Diego
Enrique<:.,
a Na–
tive of
Seville
whom they put
to
death; his untimely end was much lamented by
all the City ; for though there had been above two hundred perfons, as
Palcntino
reports, concerned in the [edition, yet the fate of this poor Gentleman was with–
out any fault, to pay for all. The Juftice alfo proceeded to execute farther Seve–
rities
on
Indians
of
priJ:fcipal note, and
on
the Vaf
ials and Servants
of
Noble and
rich Citizens ; which ought rather
to
ha\fe been
infliet.edon the Mailers them–
felves, who had been the caufes thereof. Thefe mutinies and dillurbances .of
which
Palentino
gives
fo.
Ion& and
l~rge
relations, proceeded originally from' the
~rders and.Decree~
whICh.
the
Juft1ces
~~d
made for caking
aff
the perfonal Ser–
vice~
of
1?1dian1
towards their
Lords,requmng_that
fuch as found themfelves aggrie-.
ved m
t~1s
matter , fhould not appear
by
their common Atturney in behalf of the
Generality, but that every man fhould appear and plead in his own
pe1fon.
AU
which, .as
\\:e
have formerly faid,. were Artifices of the Devil, contrived purpofe–
ly to
ra1fe
d1fcord among the
Spamards,
whereby the progrefs of the dofuine of the
U
uuu
u
Gofpe
881
.
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