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Bo.oK

vnr.

Royal

<;ommentaries_~

againft the

Spaniards,

and to kill as many of them as they were able. ln like

man•

_ ner

an Accufation was brought againft thofe wh0 .were born in that Courmy of

lndian

Mothers,and Fathers who wete

Spaniards,and

Conquerours

rhatEmpire.

Alledging againft them, that they had fecn:tly

agre.éd

with ·che Prince

T,¡pac Amarú,

and other

Incas,

to make an Infurreélion in the Kingdom : Be–

ing moved th'eteunto out of a difcomem, thac they who had b-:en born of

the Royal Blood of the

Incas,

whofe Mothers had been Oaughters

or Niecesi

or'Coufin-Germans to the

Jncan

ti'

amily; and whofe

athers were

Spariiards.¡

and

ofthe firft Gonquerours,who had gained.great Fame,andR.eputation; were yet

little confidered,thac neither on frore of the Nacural Right of che Mother, nor

of the high Deí'ert and Merit of che

ather, ·,any thirig was beftowed ·upon them;

but ali was conferred on the Kindred and Relacions of che prefent Govemours;

whilft they w·ere fuffered to ftarve, unlefs they would live on che Alrns of Cha–

rit-able people, or Rob·on the High-Way, and fo come to the Gallows. -More–

over it wa·s charged upon the Prince, That he had not' difcountenanted fuch

-perfons as thefe, but had received thern into bis Service, upon proroiíe that

they would joyn with him, and dye in the defence of his Caufe. AH which

being alledged in that Accufation, which was dra~ up againft the Sons of

Spa–

niards

born of

lndian

W ornen, they we-re all apprehended, and as man

of them

as wei:e of twency years of Age, and upwards, bein~ capable to bear Arms, then

~refiding in

Coz..co,

were clapped into Prifon. So~e of th.~m had che Quéftion

put to them under the Torment, to extort a Confeilion from them of that

for which they had no ProGf,

Evidence before. Aruidft this Mad rage, and

.'.'.fyrannical proceedings by lmprifonmenc, andl;orture,an

Indian

ornan,who(e

Son was condemned to che Queition upon the Rack; carne to the Prifon, and

with a loud Voice crye~ ou~,

Son, fince thpu art fentenced

!º

the Tarment, fa/fer

it bravely li~ a Maf! of J::Ionaur_; aicl!fa.. no.:Man falfely, and Gad will enable

'thee to bear

it,

and reward thee for the Haz..ards and Labaurs whtch thy Father, and

his Campania:;s ~ave.Jujtain~d to mak$.,this,Count? Chrifftan, and e1:g~~ft the Na–

:ttves,rhereof mta th.e Bofam o{(he Ch11rch. Tau brave,Sa1s af t~c.C'ónque\our,

,how ex:..

cellently have yóur Fathers bum rewarded (orgaining this Country, - when a f!.,alter is

the 'only Recompence antl. Jnheritance purchaftd 'for"their Children

'Thefe an~

niany

other things íhe um:red with a loud Voice: exclaiming like,a mad WQmaJ;). a–

bout the Screets, ¡¡nd caUing God and the World to ex,amine·che Ca._ufe-, and

judge'

thofelonocents

And if the Fate of them be determine'd

(faid

_fhé)

dnithat

they mufr dye, let them alfo

kili

the Mothers, -who ,had -the Sin upan them,: to ,bring

them forth; and who were

culpable

to deny their own Country and Relations,

far the.fake af thofe Co~q~rou~s, and joined with rhem in the Deflgn of making this

Empire

ub1eU to the

Spamards:

But the

Pachacama·c,

or the great God, hath. b,rougbt

1tll

rhefe. tbings

juftly

upan tbe Mothers, ·who for the

fak! of

the

Spaniards,

could

eafily renounc-e their

lnca,

thetr

Caciques,

and Supcriors,

And fince, íhe. had

pa11ed this Sentence upon he~ _felf, ~nd in ·behalf of all ·the other Women

in che fame Scate and Condmon w1th her; and had pronounced thern all

-guilty, íhe deíired that íhe might be che firft to fuffer,• and lead the way

.of Oeach and punifhment

J:O

ali the reft ; which

they.were pleafee:1 to

grant 1.ú1to her, God would reward this good work to·tbem bóth ·_in

chis~ and in the other World. Thefe paffionate exprtffi.oils -utteted w1th

-all the Violence her force would admit, worked greatly upon ..th~ :l\1in4

of the Vice-King, and diverted him

from bis intention to

put

them

·to death; howfoever they were not acquitted hereby, bue procQ-fed, for

·them a. more lingring for¡¡ of Death, which was BaQilhment into,

J.li-

vers remoce Pans óf the New World; unknown to their ·fore,fat.lwrs.

.So fome of them were fent into the Kingdom of

Chile-;-'

and amongft. tha

·refr, a Son af

Pedro del Barco,

of whom

.formely' made inention

-have been my School-Fellow, and iundet' the Guardianlhip of

my.

Father,

-Others of them were fent to the .new .Kingdom of

G~anada,

ánd to

d¡v-ers

:líles

Barlovento,

and to

Panama,

and'

Nicaragua:

so·me of them alío

rwere fent iinto

Spain;

and amongft them was

John Ar,ias Maldanado;

the .So'n

Díego Máldonado

the Ric-h; who remained under Bániíhment

..i~

Spaín,

for the· fpace ·of ten Years; where I faw hitn, and enteP–

tained him twice in

Lodging, at a cer~ain Village within .the Bi–

n n

fhoprick

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