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VIII. .
Royal Commentaries.
AFuneral Oration made
by
a Reiigious Períon in Honour
of
Garfila/fo de la Vega)
my
Lord; .after bis Death.
R~~
.
. '.
.
T
His
Speech_ or Oration
is
filled with fuch Doxologies, and Rodomontadoes, a/ter
.
the
Spantíh
manner, ar netther agree Wt!h the ftyle of an Hiftorian, nor with
the
Englifh
humour,
·
unlefs I intended to expofe my
Spaniard,
and render him 4s Jan-
,
tafti~al as t?e_'V,úneft of ~is Co1mtry.men•
.
I have therefore thought
fit _
to paji
it
by,
left
tn
ftrammgour
Enghíh
above its
~y,
it
Jhould bear no harmony
in
confort with
the
Spaniíh
Lang,1age, and
fo
weJJ:all·proceed unto
C
H·A .P.
XIII.
Wherein is
·
treated of thofe, wbo, f~r demanding a reward fer
their Services;were banifhed into
Spain;
and what Favour
and Grace his Majeffy beftowed upon them.
Don
García
de Mendofa
is fent Governour unt~
Chile ;
and o/ the
Skjrmifh be had there with the
Ind1ans.
B
UT to return now
tó
the Petitioner·s, who, for demanding a Reward
in
Lands,
for
their paft Services, were (as we have faid) banifh'd into
Spain;
they ac length arrived there poor, naked,and almofl: famifhed : And in this guife
' they prefented themf(;lves in the Courc before the King,
Don Philip
the Second
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which move<l great Compaillon in ali thofe who were acquainted with their
Story, and how they had been banifhed, and
ill
treated for doing their Duty~
and demanding a Reward of their Services.
Bue his Majefl:y was more gracious
to them, giving a Penfion to as rnany of thern, as .would return to the
lndies,
out of his Royal Exchequer, that they mighthave nothing to do with the Vice–
King, nor need to make Addrelfes, or Petitions to him: And as many of
them as defired
tt>
remain in
Spain,
he gratified with Allowances agreeable to
their Condition, that is, with more or lefs, according to their Services; and
fo
I
found them provided for, when
I
carne into
Sp.:in;
which was fome lhorc
time aftertheíe matters were tranfaéted.
'Jleir
Money was aillgned them
upon the Cuftom-}1oufe at
Sevile ;
the leafl: thac any of them had, was
480
Du–
cats of yearly Penúon ; and as their Merits were,
fo
were their Allowances to
6,
Soo~
anda thoufand; to
1200
Ducats, to remain
A
nnuities to them for ali the
days of their Lives. A while afcerwards, his Majefty being acquainted with .
the Difcouríes which were commonly made in the City of
Los Reyes,
touching
the hard ufage ofthe banifhed Souldiers; to prevent farther Mutinies there,
and other Diforders which might arife, by reafon of the Severity, and Rigour
of the Vice-King, bis Majefty was pleafed to provide himfélf with another Go–
vernour for
P~ru,
named
Don Diego de Az:.euedo,
a Gentleman endued with all
qualities of Venue and Goodnefs, from whom the Counts of
Fuentes
are de–
fcen ded.
Bue
whilfl: he was preparing for bis Voyage, he died of
a
natural
death
to the great grief ofali thofe of
Peni,
who upon the news thereof, much
lamen~ed themfelves, faying, that they had not deíerved
;¡
Vice-King
fo
good
and
fo
qualified, and therefore Gcd had fnatched him away from them into
Heaven : Abd chis 'was the common faying, as
I
have heard amongfl: the
Grave and Wife Men ofchat Country.
But in regard this Gentlemari did not
pafs into
Pene,
we do not find bis ~ame in the LiJl: of the Vjce-King_s, .which
were traníporced inco _tha~ great
K
mgdom.
.In che _mean_ ume
w
htl~ thefe
matters were tranfaélmg
m
che Court of Spam,che V1ce-Kmg of
Peri!,
d1ípatch–
ed away his
Son
Don Gnrcia
de Mendopi
for Governour, and Captam General
·.
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