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BooK
VIII.
The death of
Don ALonfo de Alvarado,
was f1;conded
by
chat of
John ']!!lío
de
Ho¡_eda;
~
~oble perfon; and one ofthe_ Anoent Conquer<?urs, and one of
the Prime C1t1zens, and of the
firf!:
Rank
in ·
Coi:.co
:
He was rnarried to
Dop–
na Leonor11
de
Tordoya,
Niece to
Gt!lrfilaf[o de la Vega,
being Daughter to his
Eldeft Brother, by whom he had
Don Gomez. de Tordoya,
whq-was Beir to
his
· Eftate. Sonie~ew Months afcerwards ,dyed my Lord and father
Gtirfilaf[o de
la
Vega,
after a long ficknefs of two yearsand
a
half, with feveial ihrervals
and chang~s : For f~eming once _pcrfeél:ly cured, he mounted on fforfe-back;
and went mto the C1ty, as one
rn
good · and found health; and thus, con –
tirtuing for the fpace of three or four Months, his illnefs returned upon him
again, and confined him for as long a time to .his Chamber, where he
remained until che time of his Deceafe ; and, according ~o his laft Will and
0
Teftament,' he«was buried in t~e Coovent of St.
Francis.
.
IOOI
In thofc days it was the Cufl:om to make very folemn Funerals, qrrying
the Corps three times round the
Parade,
or publick place.; and for évery
turn whkh was made, a.high Pedeftat was raifed., whereon to repofe the Body,
whjlft the Refponfes were finging ; and then another ftand was ereél:ed in the
Church, whereon
to
lay the Corps, during the time whilft they celebraced
the
Office for the Dead. But in regard, thac befare all thefe Ceremonies
•
could be performed, it was tedious, and troublefome to
the Prieft and
People;
lt
was ordered by
Garfila{fo,
th?t the formér ·pun0:illio's fhould be ·
omitted, and that h1s Body fhould be la1d on a Carpet, w1th a black Cloth
ovér it, withf>ut P~deftal~? or Stand~, which wére troublefome,
~
and charge–
able
to
treél:; wh1ch be1ng
'accord1ngly obfervetl, as he had direél:ed: .t\,ll
-others following the fame Example, to the great eafe of the People.
When
I
was arrived in
Spain,
l
there received
a
Bolle from his Holinefs,
giving ·Licenfe to take up the Bones of
my
F
ather, and tranfport them in–
to
Spain;
which accordingly was performed, and,bis Reliques brought over ,
to him, which I depofited in the Chrirch of St.
Iftdoro·
in
Sevile,
where·they
now remain buried, tottie GloryandHonour of.our Lord God;
whofe
merey
be
upon us.
Amen.
·
·
·
This Mortalitf was a year afterwards followed by the death of
Loren;o
de
AldtZna,
afcer a long and grievous·ficknefs ; he never had been married,
nor ever had
any
natural Sons.
By
bis lafl: Will and Teftament he left
his Lands to bis Heir, that therewith he might be enabled to pay fuch Fines;
l
and Taxes, and Tributes, which fhould afterwards be laid upon them. He
J
was a very;Nob~e and Generous perfon, and one of the fecond Adventurers, '
who entered into
Peru
with
Don·
PearTJ
de A/varado.
Some fhort time after the
War of
Confalo Pifarro
was ended; two young Geatlemen of bis Kindred,
i
tho' not very nearly allyed, carne over to him in that Couatry, whom he ·
kindly received, and treated as if they had been his ówn Sons.
At
the end
ofthree y~ars _ that thefe young Men had been with him, he thought
it
fi
t
to
put them into fome way Óf livelyhood, and in arder thereunto, he gave
theni a StQck, and fent them to his Steward, to teach them how, and in
what manner they might employ and improve it ; for according to the
Cuftom of that Country, wl)ilQ: there was no War, nor Expedicions on
new Difcoveries ; it was no difparagement to a Gent!eman, to trade and feek
ways of gain, rather than to lit idle, and without bufinefs .. And fo he gave
them. ten thoufand pieces
of
Eight, which are twelve thoufand Ducats, ·ad–
vifing them that it was their Stock, whic~ with go?d husbandry they migh·,
increafe to a confiderable benefit ; and wh1ch he beheved they would have re–
ceived kindly from him, and with thanks: but thefe young Sparks fcornfol-
ly
rejeél:ed che Offer, and told hirn, That it was a difhonour and fhame; for
Gentlemen of their Qiality, to buy and fell like Me:chan~s; and tho' the
,
Steward acquainted them, that the moft noble
Spamards
In
that Country,
were uféd to trade with the Natives; of the Country, and to buy up their
Commodities
fuch
as the Herb
Cuca,
and
Mayz..,
and fend them to the
Mines of Pl~te at
Potocfi,
for provifions to' fuppor-t the People which la–
boured chere: Which was no difhonour for the beft Men to do; and was
·not of the fame nature and .efteem with thofe who fate
in
Shops, and
meafured out Cloth and Silks by the
I
yard .
And
if
they thought ít too
mean
alfo
fo
deal
like
other perfons of Q.gality,
they might aét by their
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