4000003871

BooK·IV.

R.oyal

Commentaries..

in the Government ofthe people. It had been better for us to have been Thieves,

Adulcerers, Homicides and·Robbers rathm· than honeíl: men, lince thauñe l!.aw is

force agáiníl: the latcer and not againíl: the former.

With like libercy and freedoin of fpeech, <lid chofe who were comprehended

under che fourth Law vent their arlger ;. narnely, thofe who had taken parcy wich

the

two Paétions of the

Pi9arrifts

and

Almagrianí;

by vircue of whicH (as

Diego

Fernandéz.

ob[erves)

no perfon in all

Peru

could be maíl:er of

Jndians

or Eíl:aces.

What faulr, faid they, had w@ who obeyed the Governours ahd Magillrates

which his Majeíl:y had fent us, as boch chofe were, and who aétecl by Commif–

fión from his Majeíl:y : And ifthere arofe ptivace quanels and anim0füies amongíl:

th€míelves,. by che infügacion of che Devil,

which men diveríly adhered; ydt

óeither of theíe Parties aéted again{J: the Crown. And if one Parcy ..,,/as in the

wrnng, and was guilty ofDelinquency, y_et the ocher aéted. for the K_ingt~fer~ice;

and why chen ili0uld they be eqµally punifhed br confifcatron 0f cheir G0ods anl:I

Efiates wich chgfk wh0 have offended

which feems to be fucha pieoe of Inju–

füce as is

m>t

be parallel'd by che tyranny 0f

Nero;

and feems rather to proceéd

from arn,

aFbitrary Coníl:im~ion,

fatisfie ·che luíl: ana incereíl: of cercairi perfons,

~han fmm

ddfü~ tending to the welfare and good of che Subjeél:.

all

which chey added

thoufand curfes up'(,'ln chofe who had COl'ltrivéd thefe

new Laws; or t0uníelled his Majeíl:y to pafs and

figo

chem, and

drder che exe–

~dtioJ.111 of

nhem

wioh

fud1

fevericy, on pretence thac

wás for his fervice, and

advaMerneñt gf bis Royal,Odwn.

they (faid they) had been

:ic

the Conqueíl: of

Peru,

and fuíl:a,ined chofe la–

bóuns-

and ha

zards which

we have done, they would have been ofanocher mind

n1iaa

t @

make

fqcl:i1.aws

,; tla,y rather, they would have been the firíl: to oppofe

nhern.

<i:

©lifir.f.tlat.iG"n

where©f, they qm;ited feveral paífages in HHl:ory both an–

Gient and rn'Gt

lertt, wh

idt niighli be compated to che civil Wars between the

Al–

'tnatJ·lttns

attd

d1e

Pi¡1trrifli~

aad {\lartiatllar\.y faid they in the Wars of

spain,

bé–

tween chofe two Kings,

Don Pedro

the,

Ctuef,

al!ld

liiis

Brnther

Don Henl_ique,

whofe

¡\)atdes al!

che.Nobleltlen

·and ~rfüns of Efiates in

Spain

adhered qn one

ft<ie

¡he

@nher,

and aa:tually ferved untiH tfüe death of one

chem decermined

·1he-

9uarrel ; if

facGeeding King, afrer the Wars were ended, íhould have depri–

~ed

all

ulhofe

wlio

wef€

elilg

agéd irr chis quarrel both of one fide and che otber;

what troubles wquld it

ha.ve

cteate<il, an'd how would it have moved the f¡¡iirits

a,Uthe.¡1@\ilJerfüll rne

n in Sp

aiñ?

Tfae like which hippened lDecweeh the H-0uíe

é,1ftilé

áml rliat of

Portugal

might be btought inco e:11arnple; as aamely che

Pa.r–

t.y

wbiGh Mld

for

BeltftJnejtt,

who was twice fworn Princeís of

Caftile,

and in

fa–

v0ur

óf

h~t

many of che.chief LOFds of that Countrey appeared ;· whom when

Qgeem

Jfaliélld

Gailled R€bels and Traicours, che Duke of

Alva

replied; pray God,

Madarn, than we n1a¡y G>Vercorne nhem, for iF we do not, I am fure chey will

call

tls TraiMl:ivs

and prove

,lll·S

too; To ápF)ly chefe particulats in Hiíl:ory to thé

. prefént

~fe~. whá,t

_Will

bec0me of os, faid they, if che Succeífour

t0 this Ki

íh0t1ld foifi

011

the

Eítates of chofe who were <toncerned in chis War.

Béfid.es

whkh,

tl\~y m~et'ea mal!ly fcandafams and1feclitious words, -whith

we purpof

on'Jif

n<ilt,

1:0

o'ffün'Mtfue eats of

~he

highty i.l!ice-ñféd thereár, attd b0~h íicles puc into a ferrrtencation, whence all chofe'

mií€hiefs

w&l:l

detiv@d wfuich áfcerwards happened.

Bue to return to che Vice-king,who was now on his Journey to

Los Reyes;

fo foon

as the Meífengers from

Vaca de Caftro

carne to him, he received them to dUCward

appearance kindly and wich much refpeét, and gave rhem a ípeedy difpatch that

they mighc returQ freely again

Lo1 Reyes;

where being returned, chey rendred a

fad relation of che rigour and fevericy wherewith che new Laws were put in exe-.

cution, and of che rude and morofe humour of the Vice-king; who admitted of

no Pleas, or Petitions, or Appeals to the contrary ; which ferved .to· add new

fuel, and blow all inco

flarne both in

Los Reyes, Co~co,

and in

all

thac King–

dóm.

So that now they began generally to difcourfe, thac they would neither réceive

chis Vice-king, nor abey che new Laws which he was putting

_into

praétice ;

for

thac they were well aífured, that che very day that he entred Vice-king into

Lo1

Reyu,

and his Laws were publiíhed, they íhould be no longer Maíl:ers of their

ln–

dians

nor of their Eíl:ates ; and that beíides the poinc of taking their

lndians

from

them,

bis

Laws

and

new regulations included

many fevere things, thac all cheir

Qq q g

f.fiate~·