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VIII.

Royal C.01:171!e1ttar:ies.

Chili,

bue mentions not this fecond charge, occafioned by the Robbery which che

Indians

had made upon him, whic~ was_more ciiípleafing than the former, and

moved People to fay, That the V1ce-Krng, for the fake oí his Son, had exhaufr–

ed the Kings Exchequer of all the Treafore. Bue as to what fucceeded after–

wards in the Kiogdo~

oí<?hile,

we /hall ~eave to other Writers; and confine

out felves to the Ter.ntones of

Pme,

hav10g expatiated our felves frorn thence .

rto farther, than only to touch on the 9epartur: of che Vic;~-Kings Son fro~

thence

and thed:ath oí

L?yola.

Thole who th10k fit to write the Hifi:ory of

that K10gdom, w1ll find fubJeét enough whereon to enlarge theit Difcourfes ori

War, which hath continued already for fifty eight years between the

Jndi,ms

and

Spanilirds;

that is, The

Araúcans

rebelled towards the end of the year

1553,

andnow we are in the year

16u,

and the Wars notas yet ended. We

mjght here re~ount the unhappy death of the Gover_nour

Francifcó

Villagra,

w1th

200

Spamards

more ; wh1ch happened on that ndge of Mountains, which

hath ever fince had the name oí

Villagra.

We might here alfo tell of the death

of Major General

'John

Rodulfo

with

20_0

men y¡iith him, whom they killed on

the Bogg or Maríhof

Puren.

I could w1/h to .have been inforined oí the feve–

r~I

particular fucceffi:s of thefe Affairs, and many greater which happened in

this warlike Kingdom, that I might have added them co this Hiftory. But I do

not doubt, where People have been born with fuch Marcial Spirits, but· chat

the

fame Countrey will produce in future Ages, Sons of her own, endued with

Spirit and Genius oí Learning capable to write their own Hifl:ory : And ic

íhall be my Prayer to God, That Knowledge and Learning may flourilh in ali

.tbat famous Kingdom.

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CH AP.

XIV~

The

Heirs

tho{e who

wereput

·veath

for

fiding

with

Fran:.:

. cifco Hernandez Giron

in his Rehellions, are reflored to

their

Eflates and Plantations.

Pedro de Orfua

attempts

,the Con.quefl of

t~e

Amazons.

His

End and

Death,

with

manJ"

oth~rs with

him.

HE Vice-K,ing

Don Andres

f(ortado,

feeing thof~ men who~ he had ba-

ñifhed from

Peru,

_for demandmg a Reward ofthe1r paft Serv,ces, now a-

gain returned with Peofions alTigned on the Treaíure of his Majefty, aod on the

Cheft of the three Keys, he wondered much at the fuccefs, not imagining by ·

what intereft it could have been procured for them : but more frraoge it feemed

to him to hear of the comiog of a new Vice-King to fucceed him in thát Office.

This

change of Fortune.caufed him to change his Humour, and convert much of

that

haughty and fe_vere Spirit which was natur~l. to him, in~o a ~entlenefs and

Lenity more becommg the O!11c~ of a g_reat Mmifl:er: an~

th1s good temper

he continued to the end of h1s hfe, wh1ch was

extraordmary, that thofe who

obferved it, would

fay,

That if he had begun as he ended, he would have proved

the moft admirable Governour that ever had been in che World. Thus when

the Kingdom obferved this great change in the Vice-King, che Country in

peace and quietnefs, and che rigour of the Juftices converced

info

an affable

and complyiog Humour; thoíe who had been late_ly orpre.íléd by th: heavy

Hand of Juíl:ice, a{fümcd che courage to demand fausfafüon for the evils and

damages they had fuíl:ained. Accordingly the Sons and Heirs of chofe Cicizens.,

who.had been·executed for being engaged in the Rebellion of

Hernandez.,

made

claims of their Eftates, laying befare the Juftices the Infl:ruments of Pardon,

which had been given to their Fa~hers: and

follo~ed the fuit, that after f~–

veral hearings and reviews oí the1r Cauíe, they obtamed Sentence to have their

Lands, and Commands over

lndians

reftored to them, together with all o~her

Confifcauoas

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