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VI.
Royal·
Commentaries.
that the Liveries of
my
Eather
and hi3 Companions were made of black Velvet,
and upon the upper Ca!fock were two borders of yellow Velvet, about a fpan di–
fiance from
each
other, with this
Mocco
between,
PltU Vltra;
and
adjoining
hereunto
were
three Pillars
with
Crowns upon
chem,
made of yellow
\1
elver,
a<s
were the Bord.ers, and all interwoven With
a
twill of Gold and blue Silk, which
looked very handfomely. Other Liveries che_re were very rich and
chargeabl~,
\\ hich I cannot remember fo well as
to
defcnbe them, but thete of my Fathers,
having been made in the Houfe, remain
fiill
in
my memory. The attendants of
tohn
{uHo
de
Hogeda,
and
Tho1111u
P'afque~,
and
(ohn de
!'
ancurvo,
and
Franci{co
Rodr~-
gue~
de
Villa-f11erte,
who were
all
four Conquerours
m
the
firft
Adventure, were
clothed
in
Liveries of black Velvet, firiped with divers flowers and leaves made
of crimfon and white Velvet. On their Heads they wore Turbants embroidered
with PeJrls and Efmerods, and other precious Scones, valued ac three hundred thou–
fand pieces of
Eight,
which amount
_co
a_bove
thre~
hu_ndred and feventy th?ufand
Ducats of
Caftile,
and
all
the other Liveries were nch like thefe.
Don Francifco
be–
held
this Gallantry, and Sports from
a
Balcony belonging
to
my Father's Houfe,
where
I
had opportunity to take notice of his perfon : from hence he proceeded
co
the Cities of
La
Pa~,
and
La
Pf11ta,
and to
Potocfi,
where he received a full re–
lation of chofe
Mines
of Silver, and of all ocher matters which were worthy his
Majefty's information.
In
his return he came by the City
of
Arcquepa,
and a–
long the Sea-coafi as far as the
City
of
Lo1
Reyu,
in
all
which progrefS, he travel–
led
above
fix
hundred and fifty leagues: and brought with him the Mountain of
Potocji
delineated, and exattly drawn, and painted with the Mines of Silver,
as
al–
fo
ocher Mountains, Valleys and
.idimenfe
Cavities which
are found
in
that Coun.;;
trey
of a Hrange form and figure.
Being returned co the City of
Lo:r
Reyes,
his Father difpatched him away for
Spain
with thefe Draughts of the Countrey, and a true relation of the fiate of af–
fairs there. He departed from
Los
Reyes,
as
Palentino
faith,
in
M'!J
1
5
p ..
where
we
will
leave him, to recount a particular accident which happened at that
tithe
in
Cotco,
when
Alonfo de Alvarado
was Mayor, or chief Governour thereof, -and
known co be a bold man, and an impartial
J
ufiiciary; rhe matter was this : About
/ four years before chis time a party of Souldiers confifl:ing of two hundred men
marched out of the Cicy of
Potocji
cowards the Kingdom of
Tucman,
which the
Spaniards
call
Tucuman,
moll ofwhich, contrary to the poficive Orders of the
J
ufi:i–
ces, were ferved by
Indians
to carry their burthens and baggage for them. The
chief Governour of that place, called
LicenfiadfJ Efquivel,
wich whom I was ac–
quainted, went out of the Town co view the feveral Companies of Souldiers as
they marched; and having fuffered all of them to pafs with the
Indians,
who car–
ried their luggage, he feifed on the laft man, called
Aguire,
becaufe he had two
Indians
laden with his goods ; and for chis'fault fome few days afterwards he fen–
tenced him
co
receive ewe hundred frripes, becaufe he had neither Gold nor Sil–
ver to redeem the penalty
laid
on him by his Sentence. Hereupon
A~uire
made
all cbe Friends he could co the Governour to have his punHhment remitted, but
being not able to prevail, he defired that he might rather be hanged than whip–
ped; faying, that though he were a Gentleman, and might fiand upon that privi–
lege,
yet
he would wav
at alfo : howfoever he thought fit to let him know,
that he was the Brother o a Gentleman, who
in
his Countrey had an Efrate with
Vaffilage of
Jndians.
But all chis availed
li~tle
with the Judge ; for though being
out of Office he was a man of an eafie temper, and a craetable difpofition, yet of–
tentimes Honours and places of Power change the humour of fome men ; and
fo
it
did with
th~
Judge, who became more fevere by thefe applications,
fo
that he
immediately commanded the Executioner
to
bring the Afs, and execute the
Sen–
tence, which accordingly was done, and
Aguire
mounted thereupon. The prin–
cipal men of the Town, confidering the unreafonable feverity of che Judge, went
and intreated him to remit or fufpeod the Sencence, and prevailed on him rather
by importunity
~ha~ argu~ent
t?
defetr the execution for eight days. But when
they came
to
c~e
Pnfon
with this Warrant, they found
Aguire
already fiript and
mounted on his Afs; who, when he underllood that
the
Sentence was onely
fu:..
. fpended for eight days, he rejected the favour, · and faid,
All
mJ
endeavour.shave
heen
to
~eep
my
[elf
from mounting
this
Beaft,
and from the
fham~
of
being feen
nak!d; hHt
fince thin!J
are
come thH4 far, let
the
Sentence prDceed, which will he lefs than the
feari
and
apprehenjion1
I
/h1ell
h11ve
in
thefe
e.jght
a")t enfHing,
bejiaes
1
jh1t!t
not need to give
f
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