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VIII.
Rg_yal _Commentaries~
beyondrecovery, th~t within a year and a half'$ time all the
thrc:e
dyed.
Howfoever the·whole Royal Line was notas yettotally e.ttinél:; for the faid
Don Carlos
leh
á
Son, who, as we bavefaid in the lafi: Ch¡¡ptCtr of the firft
Part
came into
Spain
with expeétation to receive gr~at Rewards an~ Preferments a;
he was promifed in
Peru
;
but he died at
A/cala de Hennares,
about
the
year
1
61
0
by
a Me\ancbolly he conceived to fee himfelf,
upon
a qua.rrel he hacl with
00 ;
who was .a Knight as he was, of the Order of St.
Jago,
¡.o
be íhyt
1,1p
within
the·Walls of a Convent ; and afterwards to be removed to a'nother Con–
vent ; where, upon more difcontent far bis lmprifonment, he dyed
fo
the
fpace of eight Months.
He
left a Son of three or four Months old, which was
made Legitirnate, that it might be rendered th~reby <:apable to inh~rit, in
righE ofbis Father, the fame favour ofhis Majefty, which,
by
wayof Penfion,
was affigned to him on the Cuftoms of
Seville:
But the ' Child dying in a
year af,erwards, s:he Allowance ceafed:
And
then was fulfilled the Propbe–
fie, which the Great
Hnaynie Capac
made conc;erning the Blood-Royal, and
ihat
Empire.
·
·
.In
the Kingdom of
Mexico,
though the
Kings
were very powerful in the
times of their Gentilifme (as
Francifao Lopez.
de
Gomara
writes in his ge–
neral Hifi:ory of the
Indies)
yet no Wrong or Injury was done to them in
matter of their due Inheritance, or Right to the Succeffion; becaufe the Kings
being Eleétive, and chofen by the Grandees, or Great Men, according to
their Vertue, or Meria tothc; Government, There was not thefame Jealoufy
t¡1pon any in that Kingdom,
as
was of the Heirs of
Peru,
who[Jl Sufpition
only brought to Deftruétion, rather than any Faults, or Confpiracy of their
own, as may appear
by
the Fate of this poor Prince, who was fentenced to ·
have his Head cut off.
.
. .
But that his Condemnation might appear with fome colour of Juftice,
his
Crimes :were publi(hed
by
the Common Cryer, .namely, That he interuled t~
Rebel ; and that he had drawn into the Plot with him feveral
lndians,
who were
his Creatures_, together with thofe, who were the Sons of
fipaniartls
born of
Indian
Mothers, de11gning thereby to deprive and difpoffefs his-Catholick Ma–
jefty, Kjng
Philip
the Se~ond, who was Emperour of tbeNew World, of his
Crown and Dignity within Ehe Kingdom of
Peru.
This Sentence
to
have bis
Head cut off, was fignified to the poor'
Inca,
witbout telling him the Reafons,
or Caufes of
it.
To which he innocently made anfwer, ,Thatbeknew no,f aQlt
he was guilty of, whic;h could merit Oiatb; but in cafe the Vice-King had
any
Jealoufie of him, or bis People; he might eafily fecur.e himfelf from thofe
fears,
by
fending him uncler a fecure Guard into
Spain,
where he íhould be very
glad to kifs the hands of
Don Philip,
qist.ord and Mafter. He farther argued,
that: it was impoffible that any fuch imagination could enter into his Under–
ftanding ; for if his
F
atber with
200000
Souldiers c
ould no~overcomé
100
Spa–
niards,
whom they had befieged within the City of
Coz.ca,how then could
il!
be imagined, that he coulcl think to rebel with
a
f
mall number, againft fuch
multitudes of Chriftians, who were now increafed, and difperfed over ali parts
ofthe Empire. Thatif he
had
conceived, or complotted anyevildefignagain(l:
tbe
Spaniards,
he would never have fuff'ered himfelf to have been tak~n, bue
.would have fled, and retired from thein ; but knowing himfelf to be innocent,
and without any Guilt, he V'oluntarily yielded himfelf, and accompanied them,
believing that they called him from the Mountains, to confer the
fame
Favours
and BounEy on him, as they had done on bis Brother
Drm
Diego
S11,yrí
Tupac.
Wberefore
be
appealed to t~e
Ki~g
ef
Caftik,
his Lord~ and to the
~
achac;imac,
from thisSentenceofthe V1ce-Kmg, wbo was no~ content
to
deprive b1m of
bis Empire, with all the enjoyments tbereín, unlefs alfo therewith he took away
bis Life, without
any
fault, or colour of offence ;
fo
that now be could wel–
come Oeath, w-hich was given hiln, -as the value and price of bis Empire: J3e..
fides this he faid many other things, which moved pity
in
the Hearts of ali
the ftand~rs
by,_
as well
Spaniards
as
lndi.a/11,
who were inwardly affeél:ed with
fuch
paillonate expreffions.
·
Upon Notice of this Sentence, the Friers .of the~ity of
Coz.caflocked
t<?
the
· Prifon to inftrué}: the Prince in che ChriftianDoétrine, and to perfwade h1m t~
be Baptized after the exaoiple ofhis Brother
Don Diego Sayri Tupac
1
and
h1s
Uncle,.Atahu~lpii:
The Prihcereadilyacceptedofthe olfertobeBapt1zed, and
told
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