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A Sport
ufed
in
Spaio.
.
Royal
Commentaries.
Boox VI.
Gofpel might be hindred, and
the
Converfion of
the
Indians
to the Cath
lick
Faith delayed : the which proceeding was contrary to the fenfe and op
in·
0
f
that wife and prudent perfon, the Prefident
Gafca,
who having had
ex~?
0
0
that the new
Laws which
the
Vice~king
Blafco
Nunne:G Vela
had
brought
andnce,
in
execution
in
Peru,
had raifed thofe commotions as
V\
ould certainly
have
~ut
the total defiruetion of
that
Empire, had they not been repealed .
and
hav·ea
obferved, that whenfoever any
thing
of that kind was moved all
the
Coun~ng
wa~
put int.o a
fl~me,,
he wifely
theref~r~
befi?re his departure, fufpended the;:.
cation of
his
Ma1efiy
s
command, requmng him
to
free
the
IndianJ
from fervices
to
their Lords. But the Jufrices followed not this rule, but fenc their
command
ov~r
all the Kingdom, as before mentioned, which gave occafion to
the
Souldi~
to utter rebellious and feditious Speeches ; and were encouraged therein
by
cooli–
derable perfons,
and
men of Efiates ; as
Palentino
writes
at
large in
the
fecond
Patt, and
fidl: Chapter of
the
fecond Book.
(; H
A
P~
XVII.
Don
Antonio
de
Mend?~a
io
fent in qual!ty of
Vice-~i
12
g
to
Peru,
he employs hzs Son
~on
Franc1fco
to vifit and
furvey the
C
oU:ntrey as far as the
Charcas ;
and
di/Patches
hini into
Spain,
with
a
relation thereof.
A fevere aaion
is executed
hy
a Judge.
A
Bout this time a new Governour or Captain-General of the whole
Empire
.ai:rived in
Peru,
with title ofVice-king, called
Don Antonio
de
Mendofa,
who
was
Se
condSon
of
the Houfe
gf the Marquis
de .Mondexar
Count of
Tendilla,
who
(as we
ha.vementioned
in
the
Hifiory
of
Florjda)
was Vice-king in the
Empire
of
Mexico
, a perfon of great Sanltity and Religion, endued
wich
Chrifiian
Vertues~
and much a
Gentleman. The City of
Los
Reyes
received him with
great
joy
and
folemnity, and defired
to
introduce him under
a
Canopy of
State ;
but nei–
ther tbe Archbifhop nor the Magifirares of the
City
could prevail
with
that
Prince to accept of that honour, as if it had been a piece of Treafon
cowards
his
Majefly,
much contrary to
the
cufiome
in
thefe
days;
in
which great Men
efieem
more of one hour of fuch Pageantry than all the time of
their
life
afterwards:
with him he brought his Son
Don Francifao
de
Mendofa,
who was
afcerwards
made
General of the Galleys of
Spain;
I
faw
him both nere and there: he always be·
haved himfelf
like
the Son of fuch a Father,
whofe
goodnefs and vercues he
imi–
tated, and followed both in his youth and in
the
years of his old age.
When this Vice-king arrived in
Peru,
he was much empaired in his heaich
by
long ab!Hnence and a& of penance; by which his natural heat began
fo
far to
fail, that
to
recover
ic
he ufed violent exercife; and though that climate
was
na–
turally
very hot, yet he would chufe to go abroad at noon
day
wich
a certain
liccle
Hawk of that Countrey, which they had
taaght
to kill upon the Sands a fort of
fmall Owls, or other Birds; and
wich
this fport
he
diverdfed himfelfas ofcen
as
his vacation from bufinefs would permit. And by reafon of his want of bealch,
he fem his Son
Don Francifco
to all the Cities from
Lo,;
Reye/
as far.
as
the
G_hamu
and
Potocji,
to
bring him a true relation of the !late thereof, for mformanon of
his Majefty
:
Don Francifco
went accordingly upon this Vifitati?n, and
as h.e
pafied
I
faw
him
at
Coz..co,
where
he
\Vas received with
great folemnuy
under triumphal
Arches, with Dances, and appearance of the Gentlemen; wh? in feveral
Tr~ops
road before him
to
the great Church, and thence conduCl:ed him
~o
the
Lo~g1~gs
provided for him: eigpt days after he had been there,
t~ey
provided for him
~
Feafr of Bulls, and of darting Canes on
Horfebac~;
which. was the moll
I?ag~1-
ficenc
of any
chat
ever had been before or
fince
m
char
C1~y;
for the Llvenes
were
all
of
Velvet ofdivers colours, and
mofi of
them embroidered.
I
rememhber
r ac