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rally in all pal'ts of
P
7
ru;
rh.ough more in fome parts rhan in others; chisMetal,
when che
Indians
finá, rhey waíh it :
and
íifc it as Goldfiniths do their Cinders,
and afterward.s made Prefents thereof unto.their Kings.
.
·
Bue
to
rerurn again untó our purpofe; which is
to
determine wliat the value
was of rhat ináedible Ranfome, for our better judgrnent ,wherein, vve /hall fec
dovvn tlie feveral parriculars memioned by the aforefaid Aurhours. As
to
the va–
lue añd differeriie_12_e~yveeñ~-GoHanp Silver, rhere vvas in thofe da:ys, as vvell as
novv in
Spai11,.
afout tvventy
per Cent.
in the eífeem of Gold above that of
Sil–
ver, and rarher.. more than
léTs;
bue for more plainnefs , vve vvill reduce che
Weights of Góld~nd .Silver
to
l)uc;ats of
Caftile,
_oí eleven
Ry_alls
and one
Marr.~.
vedú
to
a
Ducar. Novv to come to the Diviíion,
Carate
faith, tbat th@ íhare to
ev~,ry Horfeman e.ame
to
1
2.000 Weight, that
is
Ducats in Gold, oefides
.Sil
ver;
for
every·Horf<;man had
a
four~h part more than
a
Foot-man, and yet notvvith–
fl'a-ndiflg
Atabalíba
had not complied vvith the fifth pare of vvha,t he had promifed
for
his Ranforhe.· And in,·~e~d' rhat no (hare of this Ranfome belonged
to
Al-
·
magro
and
bis
Soul'.diers,¡ becaiaf~ \hey vyere,not theo prefent vvhen
Ataba/iba
vvas.
inade a Prifoner, h0vvfoe,v_eJi the Governoúr beíl:ovved a thoufand DucaEs en eve–
ry
5oul<;l'ier, as,
a
·6ratuity, and an Encouragement: This
Carate
affirms..
Gomara
faitl\, that
tl'ie
íh.are to every Horfeman a.mouoted ro 370 Marks ofPlate, beúdes
Golde; and to the Captains·th~ty or forty_' thoufand Ducats a-piece. And now
aft~ we have fummed up the,whole , wh1ch thefe Authaµrs put
to
accounc, of
every parce!, le~~sfqbtraél: the fifth,. and then we íhall eafily compute _what ~he
fttmm total amoiapted unto, aqd how mllch belonged to every Man for pis Gngle
fhare and -proponion. ,
1
•
· · To che Govern.otir·
they
d-ivid~d 2012oop Ducats, ofwhi~h
I
f
oooo was in Gold;
:md 5.oopo in SJl1,1er; beíiqe~ tlíe"thair in w'hich che
Jnc4
was carried, ,weighing
25000 Ducat~
'óf
Gold; which being thr.own into tl}e Heaps amongíl: the other
Riches, appe1:taiqed to him, as Captain Genera\. To t_he three Captains of Horfe
th~fr prnportio1ií'wa_s 90000 Ducats in Gokl', and 30000 in Silver.- To che four .
Cal:')tains of Foot·the like fumm was proportioped of 90000 Ducats in Cpld, and
30000
in Silver. To the hundred Foot Souldiers their íhare amoumed untó
9qoooo Ducats in Gold
1
and 125000 in Silver. To che two hundred and
[o~·–
ty.Spaniards
which carne 1:1p with
Almagro,
a
largefs was given of 80.000 Du~ats iµ
~old,
and
600,00
irr
Silver. And
to
Almagro
himfelf 30000 Ducats in Gold, and
,10000
in
Silver, befides che _Atlowance which his Companion inade hin!i out of
h~
owp íhare,
a~
{hall hereafter be more particularly mentioned. · The
fiftp
of
aJl:wnicq, ·
deduGtecl from th<;{e feveral parcels in Gold, amoumed umo·
~
46250
Qucats, <Jnd che
'fifth
from che Sil}'.er unto
t
57 5
oDucats.-
And in regard, as Hi–
fl:oriaJ1s repQrt;.tbat che Silver was' purified, and much finer than thar wnich we
can Standa~d, and was by four Ryalls
per
Mark betrer, or
9f
more value
$ .
we
íhall
add t4e fumm of 3.8160 Duq.t,s IJQto chis J\crnum, bein~ for
fo
much ás chis
Sil–
ver
was
more refioed and bett~r t.han t.h~ ~ommon Standa~c;l: And n0t
1
t0 wea-
.ry che Reader farther with thefe long Accounts of every particular
fu111i:ri ,
we
íhall caA: up che tota_l, with allowance oftwenty
per cent.
advanee, in the value be–
tween the G9ld and the Silver; with twemy
per cent.
difference between che Piece
of Eight and the Ducat; fo that an hundred
Pefos
in Gold are worth an hundrnd
and forty four Ducats, according to which we !hall eafily make up che feveral
furnrns in Gold. And in regard that Hiílorians do not memion whether che
Gold was fine, as they do rhar, the Silver was refin~d and purified, \3/e !hall
fuppofe that the Gold was worrh twenty two Qgilats and an half, as in the Stan–
dard in
Peru
1
and not twenty four Q!!ilats, as in
Spain,
·
for then we fhould add to
the whole value of che Gold 218s-oo Ducats, which arifes on che Qgjlat andan
halfof Advance; but becaufe the
Spanifh
Writers do not mention that difference;
we íhall likewife leave it out in this Account, leíl: we íhould feem to inferr any
thing without good Authority. As to the Silver, rhere is
RO
other difference rhan
of twenty
per cent.
between the Piece of Eight and rhe Ducat. We fay then rhac
the Gold, which fell to the íhare of the Governour, cogether with che Royal
Chair, amounted unto·-------------252000 Ducats.
che Silver unto---------------60000
To
the three Captain5 ofHorfe in Goldi--------129600
~t-
in Silver
.
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