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VI.
R~al
Commentarie1~
CH A P.
XVI.
Ihe Juflices feml a new Mayor to
Cozco,
wi10
doth Juflice
upon the Mutiniers, The Original of thefe Diflurbances
is
here related.
U
PON the rumour whicb ,Don
rohn de M endo9a
caufed
to
be fpread in the
Cicy of
Los Reyes,
che Judgesapp0inted the Marefchal
Afonfo de Alv,mido
to
be
Mayor of
Cou o,
giving him Commiffion
w
puniíh the infolent and mutinous
Souldiers chere, and to hindenhac growing Evil which for wanc of due correéti~
on was come co a degree unfupportable. So foon as chis new Officer was come
to
Couo,
he ap¡.,rehended fome of che Souldiers, who to fave themfelves had im–
peached a cercain Citizen called
Don Pedro Portocarrero:
And having well exarhined
che cauíe of che principal Mutiniers , who _wer-e
Francifco de Miranda
and
Alonfo
Hernande:,;, Mefgarejo,
he hanged them up w1chout any r,egard to their Nobility ,
though they claimed che privilege of Gentlemen. The which when
Afonfo Barri–
oneuevo
knew, who was alfo condemned, he
Cent
to
che Mayor or Governour,
defaing chac be mighc enjoy che privilege of a G_enclema~, that is, that he rnighc
have bis Throaccut, and not be hanged ; alledgmg that m ca[e he were hanged,
he füould defpair of his Salvation, and be _condemned éverlaíl:ingly
to
the Tor–
ments of Hell. At che iníl:ance of cercain friends, che Governour granted che re–
queíl:, and wich fome unwillingnefs commanded bis Throat
to
be cut'; which I
. know co be true, becaufe I
faw
chem aUthi:ee after the·y were dead; for, being a
Boy ac thac time, I had che curiofüy, co fee chofe things as chey paífed.: fix ar .
feven others were baniíhed out of the_~ingdo!11, che reíl: made their efcape away.
But as
to
Don Pedro Portocarrm,
he rem1tted h1s caufes to the Lords Juíl:ices, who
·having examined him, fec him ac liberty.
Pafentin?
fpeaking of
Francifco de Mi–
randa
names him for a Cicizen of
Couo;
whereas
10
realicy he was' not ·unlefs
we will give che titl~ of ·cirizen to any Inhabicanc, after the
Caftilian
Styl~, diffe–
rent tq che Cuíl:0~1e ufed in
Peru
and
Mexico,
w1:ere. none is called a_Citizen,unlefs
he hat~a Plantat1on, .and aCommand over
Indums
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vaífalage to h1m : and is ob–
liged (a~we noted in che firíl: Pare of thefe Commencaries) to maincain his.Hou–
fes in che place of bis refidence: but
M iranda
could claim nothing of this matter
for I kne1'{ him very
well ,
for a Niece of bis was bred up in che fame houfe wich
me, füe wa5 boro of an
Indian
1.11och~r, and_proved a.woman of greac pr-obity and
verme. Sorne few monchs after chis pumíhment execuced , a fmall diíl:urbance
happened, ·orwhich
Palentino
makes a long Story; though in realicy it was racher
a Precence rai[ed
to
cake revenge upon apoor Gentleman, who, without any rna–
lice, had undercaken to give an accounc of Baíl:ardies
in
feveral greac and ancient
Families , and not onely on the man's fide, bue on che woman's fide alfo: bue
whac che[e Families wei:e, th~re
is
no reafon we fhould mencion in particular.
Moreover, there were feve:;ral ocher difcontents in chofe days which turnes into
publick mutinies; che punirhmenc ofall which fell upon a poor young Gentleman·
onely, not of above twency four years of age, called
Don Diego Enrique,:,,
a Na–
tive of
Ser ifle
whom they ¡:iuc
to
death ; bis untimely end was much lamented by
·ali che Cicy; for chough there had been above two hundred perfons, as
Palentino
reports, concemed in che fedicion, yet che fate ofthis poor Gentleman 'was wich–
out any faulc, to pay for ali. The Juíl:ice alfo proceeded to execuce farther Seve–
ricies
ón
Indians
of principal note, and on the Vaflals and Setvancs of Noble and
rich Cirizens; which ought racher Jo llave been infliéled on che Maíl:ers chem–
felves, who had been che caufes thereof. The[e mucin_ies ~nd diílurbances, of
which
Palentino
gives
fo
long and large relations , proceeded originally from the
Orders and Decrees which che Jufüces had made for taking
Qff
che perfonal Ser•
vices of
Indians
rowards rheir Lords, requiring thac fuch as found them[elves aggrie–
ved in chis maccer, fhould noc appear by cheir cornmon Atturney in behalf of
che
Generality, but cha
e
every man.fhould appear and plead in his own perfon, AII
which, 'as
we
have formerly faid, were Artífices of the Devil, contrived purpofe–
ly
to raife difcord among che
SpaniF1rds,
whereby che progtefs ofthe doétrine ofche
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