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BooK

VHI.

Royal

Commentaries.

rher

Porra1,

who had been an ancient Inha~itant of lhc Counrry, and one greac–

devoted to that Ble!fed Evangel!ft, be1ng defirons to ceh:brate che Fefüval

of that Sain t, was ac_cuftomed evvy Year ro~ring' a carne Bull with him to the

Proceffion, decked w1th Garlands, and compofed of variety of Flowers. In che

year 1556 ali the_Clergy and C_orpor~tion of the City :wi"th a muLicudt: of

other people commg to fol

mnize ~h1s Feafr, the Bull being as tame, and

gentle as any Lamb, walked m the m1dfr, and went and returned without any

difrurbance co· the Procdiion. Being come back to the Convent the Church not

being cápable to receive the Multitudes of People which crouded thither

the

l ndian1

and the more cornmon

fort,

remained without, and made a Lan~ for

the Proceffion to pafs. The

SpaniardJ

entered into the Cburch, leaving a

way t~ com~ up to the Chancel: The Bull which walked i~mediately: befare

t_he Pnefts, m that tarne and gentle manner, as we have fa1d .befare being

entered three or four P

aces wi

thin the Porch of the Church, on a' fodden ·

runs -at a

Spaniard

called

Salaz.ar,

and took '

him.up

on his Horns, and withouc

any hurt to him, tofied him out at one of the Doors of th.e Church : The

p~ople aflrighted with this unu(ual rudenefs of the Bull_, _were put inca great

d1forder; but the Bull returnmg gently back, took h1s place again in the

Proceffion, and walked up gently

the .Chancel. The people of the

City

much admiring at this Novelty,

d thinking that there muft be fomethin"

more than ordinary in the matter, enquired with all dilige!]ce to difcover th~

Myftery thereof:

And upon a ftriét ·examinat

ion of t

he thing, it was

found that about l}x or feven Months before, this

Salaz.ar·

had maintained a

Law-fuit agaioft the Church-men, and that he had incürred the Cenfure of

Excommunication, and had never been abfolved from it. But upon this Acci–

dent he ddired Abfolution, and obtained it ; having declared his intention

never more to fall into the like Error of Contumacy again.

I was then in th;

City, when this matter pafied, and was prefent at the Proceffion, and heard

the Story thereof related more at large by others, than we have done in this

Q~~

CH A P.

III.

The Marquis of

Caqnete

is defigned far

Vice-King of

Peru.

El.e lctnds upan ¡he Continent. Severa/ Negers, or Black.},

who were Fugitives, are reduced. The burning of a

Galeo.p,

with eight hundredpeop!e therein.

O foon as News was brought to his Imperial Majefty then in

Germany,

ofthe

death ofthe Vice-King

Don Antonio de M endofa,

he nominated.the Count

Palma,to

fucceed him in that Employ.ment, but on fome juft grounds and reafons,

heexcufed himfeif; the likedid the Count

de Olivaru,

who was unwilling

ac–

cepc

of that Government; Thofe who lived in the

Jndics,

did believe that the

Great Men, who were commodious ac home, were unwilling to accept an Office

far diftant from

Spain,

and from the Courc: Tho' a Vice-King who had re–

fided there for fome time, was ofanother opinion, and faid, that the Govern

mene of

Peru

would be the beft Employment the King had in his Gifc, \vere it

not

near to

Madrid,

where the Court refides. His meaning, was the complaints

of che many oppreffions he exercifed on the People, would come fooner to tbe

Court thao he defired. At length bis Majefty pitched upon

Don Andm Hwardo

de M endofa;

Marquis of

Cannete,

and chief Confiable ?f

C11e~ca

to be bis Vice–

King

Peru,

who ha_ving accepted the O_ffice,a~d rece1ved bis d1fpatcbes, depar–

ted for'

Pem,

and arnved at

Nombre de Dios,

wh1ch he made t_he

place ofFefid

ence

for the Minifters of Juftice, and for the Oflicers of the Imperial Revenue.He there

rewarded fome of che Ancient Conque_rors of che lfles of

Barlovento,

nd of t~e

mam