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VI.

R.oyal

Commentaries.

made

fume

great

Lord

or Prince,

and

to enjoy the fweetnefs of

other

mens

Efiates : with the

fubfiance

of what

have faid

this

Auchour fills five

Chapters;

wherein

nothing but quarrel and difpu'te. But this marriage lafied

not

long by

reafon of the

inequaliry

of age,

for

Paulo de Menefes

died fome

few years afterwards,

before he had confummated the

marriage;

but

ch~

young

Lady,

though

not as

yec

twelve years old, inherited the

Efiate

and

Indi11n.r

.of. her Husband; and (as the

Ladies of

Don Pedro de

Alvarado

did ufe

fay)

!he changed. her 9ld Kettle

for

new

one; for !he married with a young Gentleman of about twenty years ofage,

who was a Kinfman of the

fame

Paulo

Menefas,

and thereby a kind of refiaura-

.tion or compofition was made for that Eftate. This paffage we have inferced a

little out of

its

due

place,

regard it

fell

with

other fiories of the fame nature.

For not long before this agreement was made, the General

Pedro

Hinojofa

arrived

in the

CharcM

with the Office and charge of Governour, and chief Juftice of the

Cicy

Plate,

and the Provinces

thereunto

belonging, where

he found many

rhofe Souldiers which he expeeted there; who from the hopes they had received

from the Promffes he had made rhem in confufed and general terms, had rnade

their rendezvous there, and invited others to the

fame

place, ?nd !?roved very

rroubleforne co him, becaufe the Countrey afforded neither convenient quarters,

nor provifions nece!fary for them: for which reafon

Hinojofa

took occafion to re–

flett upon

Martin

de R0Me1

and

auto

de Menefe1,

as if their quarrels had dtawn

thofe numbers of Souldiers thither.; and

told them plainly, that fince their pri–

V4~e

difputes had

invite~ fu~h Gue~s

they

oug~t

pro~ide

nece!faries

for

chem,

-a.nd

not foffer them

to die with

famme : co

which

Martm de

Robin

made anfwer,

that

many others were concerned in the encouragement which was given them

c9me

thither,

and therefore chat a general fault ought not to be attributed co them

particular; meaning by General, himfelf, and

that

was the caufe of

their

coming :

for

Martin

de Robles

was

ufed

fpeak fmarcly,

and often

with reflexion,

as we fhall fee

hereafcer.

·Thus did every man make

his bulinefs co complain of others, and to

lay

the

rnifcarriages of Government to other mens charge, nothing was quiet in

the

City

Plate,

or free from malevolent Tongues, fo that the moil: fober Inhabitants re–

tired from the precinCl:s of the

City,

and betook themfelves to the Councrey, or

to parts where ·their Ell:a:res lay,

free thernfelves from the infolence and bold

practi,es of

the

Souldiery ; who were come at

length

to that pafs, as to hold

pu–

~lick

Me.etings, and ro_own their Cabals, and to challenge the General wich rhe

word and promife he had given them to

their chief Leader and Commander,

foon as he was come to the

CharcM,

and that now they_ offered themfelves be-

ing

in a readinefs to make an Infurrection, and would

longer be delayed.

The

General., to entertain them

with

new hopes, told them, that he iliortly expected

Commiffion

from

the

High

Court of Jufike

enlarge their Conquefts

War,

which would afford them

good occafion to rife in Arms under colour of

Authority.

'!Vith thefe and the like

v~in

excufes

an~

preten.ces he entertained the Souldiery,

emg far from any refolut1on of compliance

with them.

And though

)tis

true

that,

beiog at

Lo$

Reye.r,

he fomerlmes let fall fome dubious expreffions in general

c~rms,

':Vhich

tbe

Souldiers

interpreted

for prom}fes ; yet being

now

come into

Government,, and become Mafier of two hunared thoufand pieces of Eight a

year,

he was

yvilliog

fa quiet in the enjoyment of that fortune which he had

al~eady a~quired,

and not co adventure again by a feeond RebellioQ

the

lolS

of thofe nches, which,

the cofi: and ruine of another, he ha'd gained by the

firfi.

~he

Souldiers obferving this indifferency and

coldnefs

of the General, conful–

~e~

m wjiat mannei: to carry on their Rebellion by another hand; and according–

was

agreed

to kill

Hinojqfat,

and to fee up

Don

Sebaftian

CaftiUa

for their

Co~mander

in Chief, being at that time the moll: popular man of any

the

hICh

defign '

treated

publicltly that it was the common difcourfe of the

whole Tm' n, and every one talk-ed of

as a Plot ready

put

in execution:

here~ore

eraI

111€0

of ECl:ates, ;md perfons who were concerned for the peace

and

qo1erne~

of the Countrey, informed the

Governour

Pedro d6

Hi»ojofa

thereof.

~nd. advife~

him_

t~ f~cure

his own perfon, and

drive

thefe

people

-Out

trn;

hm1t

of his Ju:&Hchon before they took

away

his

life and defiroyed the

King–

~Olll:

and parc1cularly one

Polq

Ondegardo

a Lawyer was very urgeot

with

him

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