890 / 1070
Royal
Commentarier.
BooK
VI.
to tbe
Infanta
or Princefs, fhe refufed the rnarriage, fa)'.ing, t~at it was not reafo–
nable
to
marry the Daughter of
Huaynd C11pac Inca
mth a
Czraca_mayo,
that is, .
in
the
Jndian
Tangue, a Taylor; and though the Biíhop of
Co~co,
and Caprain
Diego
Centeno,
and othér·perfons ofQuality preífed the rnarriage, rhey could not ptevail :
wherefore rhey engaged her Brother
Don Chriftoval Paullu
to
ufe bis inrere!t, and
perfuade her
to
ir, who accordingly, taking her afide into a come~of the Room,
cold her, chat it was not convenienc for her to refufe thac marriage ; for thac
íhé
would
fo
difoblige
che
Spaniards
chac for ever after they would become morral
enemies
to
cheir Royal Family and Lineage and never more be reconciled
to
them.
At Iengrh íhe, aílencing to che advice of her Brother, though wirh a very ill will;
was brought before the Bifhop, who was pleafecl
ro
honour the marriage by cele~
brating che Office himfelf: and, asking the Bride by an
Indian
Interpreter, whe–
ther íhe would marry chac man; che Interprecer asked her wherher fhe would be
che Wornan of thac Man, for in the
Indian
Tongue they ha\'e no word
for Mar–
tiage or Wife; to which che Bride made anfwer in her own Language,
Ychach
Munani, Tchach Manamunani;
which is, Perhaps,
I
will have him, and perhaps
I
will
not have him: howfoever che marriage went forward, and was celebrated
irí
che Houfe:of
Diego de los Rios
aCitizen of
Cow,
.and both che Husband and Wife
were alive, and cohabited rogecher when
I
!efe
Couo.
Many other Marriages like
chis, were contraél:ed ali over the_Empire, being deGgned to give Efiates to Pre.;
tenders, and
to
fatisfie chem wich the goods of other men: and yec chis way could
noc give
foil
concencmenc, for fome e!leemed the };fiares thac carne by
rheir
Wives to be coo fmall and inconGderable ; and others whofe luck ic was to have
ugly Women loached them, and complained of cheir fortune; and thus ic fared
wirh thefe menas with others in chis world, wherein is no encire fatisfaétion. The
unequal diviíion of the Land, as Authours fay, was che caufe and ground of
all
the enfuing troubles and mutinies ; for unto
Pedro de Hinojofa
they gave ali che
Jn–
dimu
which belonged
to
Gonfalo Pifar,o
i9 the
Charca,s,
which yielded an hundted
thoufand pieces of Eight every year, beíides a rich Mine of Silver, which made
the R~~enue of chis Gentleman to amount unto two hundred thoufand pieces
of
Eight a year: for it is incredible
to
think the vafi quancicies of Silver thac
are
every year digged out of che Mines of
Potocfi;
which were
fo
grear, rhat Iron was
become more valuable rhan Silver.
Tapacri
fell ro che loe of
Gome~ de Solü,
which
was worth forty thoafand Crownsyearly ; and
M11rtin
de
Roblnjiad
an Eíl:ace of
che
like
value given him. But
Diego Centeno,
though he had fuíl:amed ali che labours,
and performed1the fervices before related, yec having noc been concerned in
che
furrender of ch~Fleet ac
Panama,
he was excluded from ali other Eílace than chat
onely wirh which he had formerly been inve!led, called
Puc,11111;
nor were ochers
of his Companions in che leaíl: conGdered: but
Lorenfº de Ald,ma
hadan addicion
gramed ro his former Eíl:ate in che City
o[A,equep11.,
which both together were
valued at fifty thoufand pieces of Eight yearly rene. To
Don Pedro de Cabrera
a
diviGon was made of fome Lands in the City of
Cow
called
Cot11p11mpa,
the Re–
venue of which was reckoned ac fifty thoufand pieces of Eighc yearly'renr. Ano–
ther
to
che value of forty thoufand in Gold was conferred on
Don Ba!tafar
de
Cajl-illa
in
che Province of
Parihuanacocha,
which yields moíl: Gold.
'fohn Alonfo P,1/omino
re~eived an addirional increafe to his former Eíl:ace, which boch cogerher mighc
make up a rene of forty choufand Crowns.
Licenciado C11rv11jal
had a like Efiate
given him, chough
he
enjoyed it but for
a
íhorc rime; for being Recorder of
Co~co,
he was unformnately killed by a fall frorn a Window, from whence he rhrew
himfelf headlong out of defpair and !ove
to
a cerrain Lady.
I
remember
I
faw
him buried on Sr.
rohn Baptij/-'s
day : bue
Hern11n Bravo de Laguna
was to
content
himfelf wich a meaner loe of eighc rhoufand pieces of Eight Revenue, not having
the l'nerit of th(')fe
to
precend who furrendred up the Fle,ec
to
rhe Pn::'íident ar
Pn–
nama,
who were all, fome more and fome lefs, very confiderably rewarded ; andr
ind.eed rhofe Gemlemen did juíl:ly deferve
a
recompenfe, being che
firíl:
who gave
a turn to the fcale, and rhe principal Iníl:ruments to reduce che Empire of
Peru
to
the obedience of his M2jeíl:y, which was entirely !oíl: when rhe Prefident at
firíl:
e11rred into it, as is apparenc
to
chofe who have read chis Hifiory. Tbe Lots gi–
\'en
ro _che reíl: in other Cicies of
Peru
were not fo advancageous as chofe before
me:1tioned: for fome which were poor were improved with che adjunél:ion of thofe
more rich; and fome .were divided and given
to
ochers; bur how poor foever
they we¡e eíl:eerned,
che
meaneíl
of
them
Has
.valued at eighr, nine, and cen rhou-
fand