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Royal Commentaries.
B
OOK
VIII.
due place, to make room at the end of this our Work for fo forrowful a Tra·
gédy, which is the ultimate Scene of the fe~ond part of thefe our Commenta-:
ries.
Praifed be God for all things.
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A .P.
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Don Francifco. de Toledo
returns to
Spain.·
/lis Ca{ho–
.
lick., Majefty gives
hi11z
a fevere
reprehenfion
:
His
End
and Death
:
As
·
alfo
of
the Governour
Ma~tin
Garcia Loyola.
I
T
is not
fit
to conciude our Hifl:ory with the Death of
Don
Philip
Tupac .Amarre
alone, and therefore we !hall accom_pany it with a fhort Relation oftheDeath,
ami End of the Vice-King
Don Francijco de Toledo:
Who afcer he had compleated
the time ofhis Government,which was very long,and as fome fay
1
6 years,he re–
turned into
Spain
with great Riches and Profperity, being reported
by
common
Fame to have brought with him above;: the value of
500
thoufand pieces of
Eighlt
in Gold and Silver: up·on the Reputation of which,he procured admittance into
the Court, and lxpeél:ed to be madeone of the great Miniftersof State,in reward
of the fpecial Services he had done in c~tting off, and extirpating che Royal
Line
of the
Incas,
by which a way was made to the Kings of
Spain
to claim
a Rightof Inberitance to the Empire of
Pern,
wichout other Competitor.
He
alfo imagined, that he had highly merited of his Majefty by the rñany good
, • Laws and Rules he had Eftablifhed in thofe Kingdoms, whereüy bis Majdties·
Revenue was improved,and the Mines ofPlate, and Quickfilver, well governed,
by the orderly Regu1ations he had made therein; having ordained and direél:ed
that the
lndians
of feveral Provinces, fhould by cheir turns come in, and wórk
in thofe Mines, with the fame pay for a days labour, as the
Spaniards
who are
Plancers in thofe Countries are by late Laws obliged to pay them for their work.
And moreover that the
Indians
being employed in G~rdning,or doing _any thing
for the pleafure, or benefit of the Owner, !hall rece1ve a pay propornonable ta
the value of the thing : The which Regulations and Rules being many and long,
we íhall omit to rehearfe the particulars ofthem.
.
. Upon fuch grounds, and with, fuch expeél:ations as thefe,
Don Francifco de
Toledo
obtained admittance to the Prefence of King
Philip
che Second, and to
kifs bis Royal Hand: But bis Catholick Majefty having been duly informed of
all Matters which had fucceeded in that Empire,and particµlarly of the Death of
the
Inca Tup11c .Amaru,
and ofche Banifhment of bis neareft Relations and Kin–
dred,to a pla:c~ where they all perifhed,did not fhew that kind and graciousaccep–
tance of bis Perfon,as he expeéted:,but told him in íhort,That he'íhould go home
to bis own houfe; for that the King had not fent him to kill Kings, bue to ferve
them: With which Reproof he went home much dejeéted, and under that Cloud
ofdisfavour which he never expeéted. In this difgrace,(as it is ufual formen who
are going down the Hill, to be helpt forwardin their way)
fo
certaín Informers
brought an accufation againft him : That he ordered the Salaries of his Servants
and Officers to be paid in Pieces of Eight, inftead of.Ducats,
fo
that for every
40
thoufand Ducats
40
thoufand pieces of Eight were made good,wbkh was áninju–
ry and damage to the Royal Treafury,during tbe time he affifted in the Govern–
rnent whichamounte~ to the value of
12odoo
ducats : To make which good,
ati
Order was font from the Council of State to
lay
a Sequeftration upon all the.
Gold and Silver he had brought from
Pene,
and to remain in fuch manrter fe–
cured, until che account was audited and cleared, how much was owing on that
fc~.r~ to the Royal Exchequer:
Do~ F,rancifco de Toledo
being a man of a haughcy
Spmt,
was no, able to refift th1s fecond blow of his Majefties disfavour,
bue