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B
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VIII.
Rova!Commentaries.
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XV.
The Count
de Nieva
is chofe'? Vice-King of
Pexu.
He fends
a Melfage to his -Predecef/or. The Death of the Marquis
of
Caniiece,
as alfo
of the Count
de Nieva.
Don
García
de
Mendofa
returns
to
•
Spain.
The
Lawyer_
Cafl:ro
is appointed Governour of
Perlló
•
W
Hilft thefe mat.ters w~re t~anfaél:ing in
Peru,
and that
Orfua,
and his
Fellew adventurers w1th h1m, w~re defeated upon the great River ·of
the
Amaz..onr;
bis Majefl:y King
Phiüp
the Second, was mindfol to provide a
New
Governour for that Empire; having i~ the place of that good Man,
.
Don Diego de Az.evedo,
who lately dyed, appomted
Don Diego de Cunniga
and
relafco
Count
de
Nieva,
to fucceed in the Office of
V
ice-Kiog ; who,difpatched
-h_is Affairs with fuch diligence, that he depárted from
Spain
in the Month of
.
111.nuary
1
560, and arrived in
Peru
in tbe M~nth of
April
foUowing. So foon
as he carne to
Payta,
which is a Town within that Dorñinion, he di(patched
away a Servant of his, with a fbort Letter to the Vice-King,
Don
Andres
Hur–
tado de
Mendofa,
giving him advice of his arrival within the Dominions of
Pi:ru,
with Commiffion from his Majefty to govern that Country, and that
therefore he 1hould defift from .intermedling further ' in the Affairs thereof.
Don Anilres Hurtado
having received intelligence ofthe coming of diis Mefien–
ger, gave Orders to have him well received, and treated aU the W ay of
bis Journey; and being come to the City of
Los
Reyes,
he had there Honou–
rable Lodgings provided for ,him, with Prefents in Jewels, and Gold, and
Sil
ver,, to the value of fix and
7000
pieces of Eight, and upwards : But the
Mellenger loft al~ thefe upon
ª.
Pique
1
and Exception which the Vice- King .
took at the ·T1tle of Lordílup, whtch was ordered to be given r and not
of Excellency; the which he
fo
highly refented, and foffered the thoughts of
being fiighted, and negle~e4 by his Succeffor, without Reafon or Jufl:ice,
fo
far
to run in his head;
that it ftrnck him
into a deep Melancholly,
which
fo
prevailed on his Spirits, that being a Man of great Years, and not
able to ftruggle with the Difeafe, he ended his days before the new Vice-King
arrived at
Los
Reyes:
who alfo enjoyed not long the happinefs he expeél:ed in
his Governmenc, in which he had not been many Months Seated with.the
Solemnity ufed on fuch occafions,. before a fi:range Accident
haíl:ened his
Death, of which he was the Author, and brought
ít
upon himfelf. Bue
the manner of-it being fcandalous to relate, we fhal! leave it as it is, and pro-
,ceed on to other particulars.·
Don Garcia de Mendofa,
who was Governour of
Ch.ile,
having received in–
telligence of the death ofhis Father, made_fuch hafte to return into
Peru,
:;¡nd thence to prepare for hís Voyage into
Spain,
that rnany p~ople re–
poned
tha-t' he haftned away more out of fear of the
Ara11cans,
than ont
of a defire he had . to affiíl: at the Funeral of bis Father : .And that with
the like precipic~ti?n he quicted the Territories of
i:ens,
_noc
t~
be fub–
jeét to the Do~1mon of another.
At
'length he arnved m
Spam,
where
he continued until he returned with a Commiffion to be Governour of
Pcru
; _
where he
impofed
that Taxe on the
Spa_
niar.ft,and
India~s,
which is páid by
them'unto this_ day. As
t-0
his oth~r ways ~f _gatn,
his Contraéts, and Commerce, we íhall pafs themall by, be11:g not within the
compafs of this Hifto,r y : For my intencion .being only to ymte, as' far as to
the Death of che Prince, who was lawfol Hetr of that Emp1re, fecond _Broth~r
of
Don Diego Sayri Tupac,
of whofe coming out of the Mountarns,
bis
Bap-