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B O O K VIII.
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How
the
Indians
and
Spaniards
celehr ated
of the moft Holy
'Sacrament at ~oico.
a
quarrel which
the
Indians
had
º'!
that
the Fejlival
A
ielatio,r
~f
OCCffiOnJ
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lnce the Method of Hiíl:ory requires, that every' thing lhould be r.;fated
in its due time and place, we !hall here at the, beginning o(
this
eight
'Book, defcribe two particular r,aífages which hapl?en~d in
Coz.coafter
the Wars with
Franclfco Hernandez..
were ended
1
ana before thearrival
of the Vice-King, whofe Preferice was inftantly defired, and expeéted in th_¡t
Kingdom. . One of thofe Matters, which aw;>rcling tó
1
.this rule, we are
f'o
meni:ion,
i~
the P,0mpous and folemn celeb::ation of that Feftival, which W e
Catholicks cali,
Corpus Chrifti,
performed in the City of
Coz..co.
After thofe
Wars were ended, wbich the Devil had raifed
to
obíl:ruét the in~eafe and
prop~atíon of. the Holy Gofpel; the lafr of which was tbat of
Francifao Her–
nandez.. Giron,
and may God in bis Merey grane,
that ~t may ~i11
be
the
lafr
and fucceeded by no other
,of
that Nacure.
The Solemnity of
that ·Feíftval is now obferved wich as nrnch magnificence,
and perhaps with
more, than at that t
ime :For thofe Wars were concluded at che end of the
year 1554, and we
a.renow in the ·year
16_11,
from which tim·e to chis
prefenc in which we are writing this Chapter, fifty feven years have palfed of
. Peace and Tranquilicy.
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My intention is only' to write the Hiftories of thofe times, and to leave thé
fucceífes
óf
the prefeoc to the labour of oth
er Pens :
In thofe days there
were about
80
Citizens, or men of Eftates in
Coz.co,who were all Genth:–
men of', Noble· Rank and Extraétion; for by the Namé of Citizens~ we
underfrand thofe who had ·Lands given them, with
bJdians
be_longing there–
t1nto
fubjeéted
to them in vaífalage.
Every one of thefe Gentlemen
with great Curiofity adorned
bis.
Chair, or Sedan; which his
Indian
Vaf–
fals were
to
carry oi:i che day of Fefl:ival ; che Ornaments thereof were
Fringes, and Embroideries of Silk and Gold,
and ftudded with Eme–
--.rolds, · and other Predous Stones;
therein were placed the Irnage of our
.Lord, or Lady, or fome other Saint or Saintefs, according to che devoti·
on of che
Spaniard,
or
h 1dian,
whofe care it was to drefs
up
thc Sedans;
which were fomething
like chofe, which• the Co-fraternities ufe in
Spain
upon fuch Feftivals.
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