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1018
Royal Commentarics.
BOOK
VIII.
'(as ~hey wr-ot-e. 1:0 _mefrom the Court) to c0nfe~ UPO? her the Title ofMarquefs
.ie Oropefa;
wh1ch 1s a Colony founded by the
V
1ce-Kmg,Don
Franci[co de Toledo
.in
f'eru,
-and called
Ortfefa
by him,
,in
memory of bis Ancefl:o~, which he de~
fü-<!d might•be cont?inuecl in•thenew World; ·be:fides which Title and Favour
f
aID informed, that a Conful
1
tation hath been held arnongft che llluftrious Pre:
fük-111:s ·and iL<i>rds oftne &oyal GouncH ,of
C
aftde,
and the
Indies,
at which al–
f0 'his Majefües
1
Gonféffour was prefent",wi~h itwo other Advocates belonging to
·tihe (}eunc-il of-the
lndie-s,t-0
conGder what fart1her Gratifications could be made
:j,a
Few'.1-r-c!l
·0f tbe many Se-rvkes w'hich her Father had dofe,according to his nu!
ty •towards his lMajefty~ and as a Ü!>mpenfation for her Patrimonial Inheri–
t-an~.
1"-owar-dswhich '(as
1
1am imformed) the Relation 'l have given
in
the firft
pare of-t?
he.feGommentaries-lbat!h, in fome manner, contributed: Which if
fo,
I lh,all efteem·my
rf
elffüfficienüy rewarded for the labour and pains I have taken
to·wr-iEe t?his Hiftory, t'hoagh no ~her benéfit or tatisfa&ion accrues thereby
tmto myfel'f.
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CH A P.
XXI.
I"be Con,lufion of this Eightb Book,> ami lafl of this Hi–
flory.
H
Aving., in the_'begi.nning of this Hift~ry, ilie~ed the Original of the
Incas,
whe
wer-e 'Kmgs of
Pem,
and defcnbed thelr lncreafe, and Conquetts
~~~r~~~q~~~~~~~&~
rnent,
boto
u1War and Peace, a_nd thereunto added th~1r Rehg1on and Idola–
t-ry
praétlfed
in
the times of theír Gentilifme:
Ali
which, by the Divine favour
atid affiftance., we have largely handled in the
firíl:
part thefe c:;ommentaries;
by
yvhieh
I have complyed with the duty
l
owe to my Country and Kindred
by
my
Mothers
:fide.
In this fecood part w_e have at large related all thofe
brave
Aéts,
and gallant Exploits performed by the
Spaniards,
in the Conqueíl:
of this rich 'Empire,
in
which
1
have complied (tho,~ot fully) wich the Duty
anel Obligati0n 1owe
u,
my Father, and to his Ill~nous andl,enerous Com–
·panion_s:S0 ·that now it may be time to conclude
thJs
Work, and put an end to
f-hís Labour, wit:h -rhe ul,cimate Reign and Succeffion of the
Incas,
who, with
Jhat unhappy
Huafaar,
were
13
in number, who poírdfed the Throne of that
Empi-re,
u,ntit
the Invafion of the
Sp¡iniards,
But as to the other
five,
which
fücceeded afterwards, that is
Manco Inca,
and bis two Sons
Don Diego,
and
Don
Phile-ppe,
and histwo Nephews, wedo notinfert them in the Line of Kings,
for
tho'
they
1
had
a
rig,ht to me 'loherit~nce, yet they neverhad poíreffionof the Go–
-vernmeflt., but if w~ fuould reckon them ln that number, we might then accounc
18,
who defcended by the direél: Male--line from the fir.íl:
Inca M1111co Capac,
to
the
laft
ofthofe Childr-en, whofe
Names l
do not know. The
Indians
do not
reckon
Atahualpa
in·che number of their Kings, being, as they
caU
him, an
/4ca,
that is a Traytor.
Tho'
in
the latl: Chapter of the firft Part of thefe Commentaries, we have
g~ven·;in aceount of
ali
che Sons, which
Íri
an obligue Line defcended from the • ·
feveral
Kíogs;
of
which (as tve have tbere affirméd) a true, andan authentick
Lifi:
was fent
me ;
with PQwer and ~uchori~y_direél:ed to
Don Me/chior Carlos
1
Don _Alonfo de
Me/a,
and my felf, that we 101ntly, or any one of us,
lhould
lay it before bis Catho1ick Majefty, and before bis Supream and Royal Council
ofthe
1-ndies,
to the intent and purpofe, that they migbt be freed from thofe
Tax-es and Iqipofitions w~ich they fuftained: Which Papers and Memorials,
as they carne direél:ed unto me, I difpatched to the faid
Don Melchior Carlos,
and
Don A/onfo de Mefa.
But thefaid
Don Melchior,
having Preteníions of his own,
would
not
weaken bis own lnterefr,
by
giving Countenance to their dernands ;
nor wbuld
he
prefent their Pspers, that it might not be known ~hereby,how rna-
ny
of
the
Roya1
Une
were
ftill
furviving; fear-ing
lefr
his In~ereft 1hould be di-
vided,