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R.oyal Commentaries.
BooK V.
We have given a Commiffion and fuch Injlrufüons
tU
wili undoubte~ÍJ put_ an end to al! the
trouble.r. and commotionJ of that Countrey.
And farther we have given him ageneral authQ–
rity to ail and doe whatfo!ver he fhal~ judge may moft redoun4 to the fervice lll'Jd honour of
God, to the improvement, oj t~ofe Provmces, to the benefit ({nd welfare of Ot!r S~bJeilJ, who
are PlanterJ, and of the Jl{atwes thereof. Wherefore we
do
corr;mand and rr,quire you to be
aiding and aj/ifting to our faid Prefident in whatfoover he_{hall demand ofyou in Our- Name
towarp1 ihc perfomian6e and accomplifhm~nt of thofa rule1 and direilions which ~ave been
given him.
And herein relying 11pon
y.ouwttk much confidence, We _{hall ~er be mmdfull•
of
the Servim which your Brother the
Ma-rquu hath done for Vs, and whzch _{hall ever be re–
,mmbred to the advantage
of
his Sons a11d Brothm. Given at
Venloe
thc 16th day of th~
Month
qf
February,
1546.
I the K I N
G.
By command of his M~jefty,
Francifco de Erato.
The Letter which the Prefulent wrote to
Gon 1alo Pi~arro
was
to
this
effeéi.
Illufirious Sir,
S
Vppofng that my ftay would not h11ve bee~ fo long in this Countrry I kttined the Empe–
rour's Letter
by
me, intcnding to deliver
it
with
my
own hand; nor did I think fit
in
the mean time to acquaint you of my arrival, out of refpe[l to his Majejl/1 Letter, which
ought to have come firft unto your hands befare mine.
But conf,derin¡, that the Affair1 of
his Majefty would require my prefence here for fome time, and hearing that you had
cmvened an Af{emblJ of rhe People to
mcet
you at the City of
Lima,
to conf,der of Alfai-rs
which depend on things already paft; I judged it necef[ary to cmploy an exprefs Mef{enger
with his Majefty's Letter, and with the [ame occaf,on alfo to fend you mine, the beArer
,:,,hereof, named
Hernandez Paniagua,
is a Perfon of fh!_aliry, and one confiderable in
your Countrey, and very much your Friend and humble Servant,
what I have now to fay to
you farther, ú to acqu1tint you, That in
Spain
there have been great Confoltations concer–
ning the manner how the commotions and difturbances, which have been raifed in
Peru
fince
the Vice-kjng
Blafco Nunnez
(
whom Godforgive) came into thofe parts, J'))ere to be rak_en
,md re{ented. And after his Majefty had well ueighed and confidered the {everal Debates
and Opinions thereupon, there hath no cau[e appeared hitherto to believe, that the [ame did
proceed from a,ry motive of difobedience or d1ffarvice to his Majefly, but mere!J from
a
prin–
cipie
oJ
fe!J-pre{ervation, wbich induced them to oppofe that feverity which the Vice-kjng
11fed
in the execution of the new Law1 againft the privilege1 and right1 of that Countre7 : AmJ
farther his Majefty hath conjidered the obftinacy of the Vice-k¿'ng, who would admit of no
Petiti~n or Appeal, or {ufpenjion of the new Laws untill fuch time
M
his Majefty
WM
ac–
quainted with the inconvenie11ces thereof; all which appears at lt1rge in J0Ttr Letter to his
M,n,jefty, and which gives a farther relation, that you had t11f.:!n upon you the Government
at
the inf}ance and defire of the Court of ¡uflice, and which thC,J kad delivered 1tnto you by
Commiffion under his Majejfy's Broad Sea!;
in
virtue whereofyou promife to ferve his Ma–
jefty, and profeµ, that to have refufad the Go11ernment at that time would haw been a dif–
fervice to his /1,f;tjefly, and that you accepted
it
on no other terms than foch
M
became a
good and
a
ll!Jal StJbjell, and with intention to refign it at the commMd and wi/1 of
his Majefty.
AU
which being t·hus underftood
by
hú Majef}y, he hath fant me to quiet the
minds of the People by
a
revocation of thofe La~s, according to the prayer ofyour Petition;
with power to pub!ifh
a
general Pardon for
ali
Fault1, Crimes andM,,fdcmeanours airead.,
committed: and laft!J, to tak! the opinion and direétion of the People of this Co1mtrey con–
cernirJg the methods which are to be ufed for the advancement and pr{1m0tion
ef
the fervic.e
of God, and Jor the commffl good and welfare of the JnhabitantJ: And in regard there are
m1t11J
Sp~niards
in
thofe paru,
wh~
(Ir.,
u~mplOJed, and h11w no poffej/io,u,
it
ú
thDught
Jit,