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Commentaries.

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VIII.

with

Hernandez.

Giran

in his Rebellon; and reduced the Prince, who was Heir

t he

Empire unto the Scrvice, and Obe<lience of his Catholick Majefry; which

were

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great things, and,of high importance: He in the next place, raifed

ftand ing Forces of Horfe and Foot, to frcure the Empire in'peace, and to de–

fend the Power of the Courts of Jufüce, and his own Perfon.

The Horfemen

he called Lances, and the Footmen Mufqueteers; to every Lance he afligned a _

Peníion of a thoufand Pieces of Eight ayear, with condition to maintain him–

felf, Horfe, and Arms, without other charge, the which were

in number :

The Mufqueteers.were to be

200,

at five hundred pieces of Eight ayear, who

were to be at ali times in a readinefs, and to maintain and keep their Mufquets

and other Arms bright and well fixed.

Thefe men were to be chofen out of

thofe who were of approved Loyalty, and faithfulnefs to the Service of bis

Majelty, tho' man

gave them a different Charaéter, and termed them Perfons,

who,ifthey had had their due,had been

fic

only for the Gallies,having been aétu–

allyengaged in the Rebellions of

Hernandez. Giran,

and

Don Sebaftian de

Cajfi.lla,

and who for the Murders they had comrnitted, and the blood they had fpile in

privare quarrels amongíl: themfelves, had often deferved

the

Gallows; but

·ali

W'c!S

fmothered up, and

the Vice-King's Commands obeyed : And

now

the Kingdom being quiet, and freed of thofe fears to which

was

fobjeé1:ed by the Seditions and Mutinies of a cornpany of rafh and rebellious

Souldiers; the Vice-King bended his thoughts cowards publick Edifices, and

to matters of good Government: And at leifure hours he paffed his time in

'honeft Pleafures, and innocent Recreations: And herein hewas much diver–

ted by an

Jndian

Boy of about

years of ·Age, who pretended to be

a Jefl:er, and of a very facetious and pleafant Humour:, He was prefented to

the Vice-King, who too_k great delight to hear him talk, and utter hís Jittle

impertinencies, pare in che

lndian,

and pare in a corrupted

Spanijh

Tongue ;·

and particularly, when he would

fay

your Excellency, he would fay your Pe–

fülency, which made the Vice-King laugh heartily; and fome then in Com–

pany, who joyned in laughter with him, would fay that that Title was more

correfponding to him than che other, if it were rightly confidered, how greali

a Plague and Pe.frilence he had been to chofe whorn he bad killed, and to their

Children who[e Efl:ates he 'had confi.fcated: and to thofe whom he banilhed out

Peru,

and

fent

them into

Spain,

Poor, Naked, and Forlorn, whom it had been

Merey to have killed, rather than to have treated in. thac inhumane man–

ner. And with fuch reflefüons as thefe, evil Tangues afperfed ali the afüons

of the Vice-King, as ifRigour and Severíty were not agreeable to the Nature

and Conftitutions of the People of

Pene.

A'midíl: thefe v:¡rious Revolutions of good and

bad

Fortune within this

Kingdom,

the Mar/hal

Alonfo

de Alvarado,

after a long and tedious Sicknefs

contraéted by Grief and Melancholly, dyed: For afcer the defeat which

he received at the Bactel of

Chuquinca,

he fcarcely enjoyed an hour of

contentment, but pined, and macerated away ,

till the Lamp of his

Life

was totally

extingui/hed : And becaufe

the manner of his Death

was fomething extraordinary,

'cwiU

not be impertinent to recount it in tbis

place, which was thus. When he was in his laíl: Agony of death, and

ready to give up the Ghoft, they removed hirn out of his Bed, and laid- him

pon a Garpet in the fame Chamber, and by bim a Croís ma~e in Alhes,

according to the Cuftom of the Knights of St.

Jago

or St.

'James

And

having layen a fhort time upon

the Carpet,

feemed to revive, 'and.

come to himfelf ;

fo that they returned him again to bis Bed ; where

afrer a fhort time falling into a like fit, bis Attendants laid birn out on the

Carpet in the fame m:mner as before ; and then coming out of his Leipo•,

thymy, and feeming better, ,was ·again Jaíd into his Bed; and

betwcen

the Carpet, and the Bed, he rnntinued for the fpace of forty days, to the

gréat labour and treuble of his Servants, until ac length he breathed his

laft. A fhort time afterwards bis eldeíl: Son , dyed, by whofe deceafe the

Eíl:ate, which .defcended to him from his Father, carne to, devolve to the

Crown: But bis "Majefty, confidering the great Services wbich the Marlhal

had done, was pl~afed to continue i~ te his

fecond Son :

v.,,hich

was

fa-

v:our

.granted to ,

yery

few

il.}

'iha~

Empíre'.

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