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BOOK
II.
R0j1al Co1nmentaries.
intercctlion of the
Friends
·and R elation
of
H ernandez.. Giron
in their behalf
'
.,
prevailed for them, and
obtained the ir
Pardon.
Arnongft
the
m~ny
Evils
and
Impieties which this
Alvarado
committed
by
order
and direltion of his Gene–
ral
i.
tlilis
City
of
Coz..co;
ic:
was
none of
the
1
aft.,
that
in
a
Sacnleu ious
manner
he
robbed
the ·cath
dral
Church, and the Monafteries of the
Bells
belonging
to
them.
For from
the
Convent of our
Latly
of the
Merceds.,
they took one of
their two Bells., from the
Dominicans
they did the like;
but
from the Convent
of St.
FYancis
they took none, becaufe they had but one, which at the earnefr
intreaty of the Friers, they were perfwaded to leave.
From the Cathedral,
out of five Bells they took only two, and would have taken them all, had not
the Bifhop with his
Clergy
appeared
in
their defence, and thundered out his
Curfes
and Excommunications againfi:
them; for the Bells of the Cathedral
were very great, and had been
bleffed
and confecrated
by
the Hands of the Bi–
fhop
with Chrifm
and
holy Oyl.
Of
thefe four
Bells
they
founded
fix
pieces of
Cannon, one
of
which burft
upon
the tryal ;
and
upon
the biggeft of their Guns
'they
impreft the word
LI BER
TIE, which was
the
plaufible name
they
gave
for a pretence of their Rebellion.
Thefe Guns which were made of hallowed
and
fanltifie'd
Metal)<
did never do any fervice,
nor was any Man
killed there-
. by.,
as we
fuall
fee hereafter. Befides this
piece
of
Sacriledge,
this Lord Lieu–
tenant
committed
fever<tl
Robberies and
Spoils upon
the
Eftaces
of
thofe
wpo
were
fled,
and
ofthdfe who were killed at the Battel of
Chuquinca,
and had the
reputation of being rich,
becaufe
they were better
Husbands,
and not
fo
prodi–
gal
as
others
who lived
in
that
City:,
and
who,
as
it
was believed,
had
many
Bars of Sil\rer in their
p'dtrefilon :
Alvarado
by
his
Induftry, and by thre,ats and
menaces affrightetl the Ifidians into a difcovery of two
Pies
which
A/on[o
de
Mefa
had made
ifl
the
Garden
of his Houfr ; from each of
which
they
drew
oUt
fixcy
Bars
of
Silver.,
every Bar
bejng
-of
the
value
of Three hundred
Du–
cats.
I
my
.felf bad the fortune to fee tbem taken out, for the Houfe of
A–
lo"fo
de
Mefa
being in the middle of the Street where
my
Father's Bouie is,
I
went
tbithe~
at the lhout they made
upon
the
difcovery of fo great
a
prize.
Some
few
da1s after they
took
away from the Indians, belonging to
J'ohn
de
Sanedra,
an \}undred
and
fifty Sheep
of tbat Countrey, laden with
three
hun–
dred
Bars
of
~ilver,
alt of
the
fame 1ize and value with the others. And
now
it
was
believed., tbat the reafon why this
<John
de
Saavedra
would
not
fly
out
of
the
City
"the
night
on which
Hernandez..
began
bis Rebellion,
as
my
Father and
others would have perfwade<l him, was to conceal and
fecure his great::
quanti–
ty of Silver, which
was
the
t;aufe he
loft both that and his Life with
it.
Thefi
rwo
parcels of Silver., according to the ufual valuation, amounted unto a hun–
dred
nventy
fix
thoufand
Calt-llian
Ducats, of three hundred feventy
five
Mara–
vedis to eath Ducat.
And though
Palentino
faith
, That
Diego Ortiz.. de Guz:.man
had
fotne
fhare in the
lofs thereof;
for
my
part., l
mu.ftfay.,
That
I
knew nothing
of
it,
nor did l
ever
hear, that any other was co
ncerned befides the two before
mentioned.
CH AP.
XXI.
Of
the
Robbery
committed
by
Antonio
~arrill~,and
of
the
ma1l–
ner of his
·Death.
The
fuccef/es
of
P1edrah1ta
at
AreqNepa ;
the VifJory which was
obtained hy
11ieans of
the
differences
which
arofe there.
.
N
or
had the Sargeant Major
Carrillo
been lefs notorious for bis Robberies
(had his Life continued) than were thofe
before
named;
for he fa
ckeda nd plurJtlered the new Plantation, and the other Cities of the Diftriel:
of
C.ol–Lafiryu;
and in a v ..
xy
few days
he
plundered
the Caciques
of
that Junfd1
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