The royal commentaries of Peru : in two parts / written originally in spanish by the Inca Garcilasso de la Vega; rendred into english by sir Paul Rycaut.

BooK VIII. Royal Commentaries. rher Porras, who had been an anc i e~ t Inhabi t ant of t hc Country, and one g reat- lj devoted to that Bleffi d E vangel!ft, be1ng de firous to ceh:bra te tbe Fefriva l of that Sain t, was a~cuftom e d ev~ry Year to..ri ng' a carne Bull wirh him to t he Proceffion, decked w1th Garlands, and compo fed of variety of Flowers. In the , year 1556 all the. Clergy and C_orpor~tion of the City yvi"th a muLirudt: of other people commg to fol~mmze ~h1s Feafr, the Bull being as t ame, and gentle as any Lamb, walked rn the m1dfr, and went and r eturned witbout any difrurbance to· the Procdiion. Being come back to the Convent the Church not being cápable to receive the Multitudes of P eople which crouded thi ther the l ndians and the more common fort, remained withou t, and made a Lan~ for the Proceffion to país. The Spaniards entered into the Cburch, leaving a way to come up to the Chance!: The Bull w hich walked immediately before t.he Priefts, in that tarne and gentle manner, as we have faid .befare · being e ntered three or four Paces within the Po rch of the Church, on a' fudden · runs .at a Spaniard called Salaz.ar, and took ' him.up on his Horns, and withour any hurt to him, tofied him out at one of t he Doors of th.e Church: The p~ople affrighted with this unurual rudenefs of the Bull_, _were put into great d1forder; but the Bull returmng gently ba ck, took h1s place again in the Proceffion, and walked up gentl y the .Chance!. The .people of the City much admiring at this Novelty, d thinkin g that there muft be fomethin (T more than ordinary in the matter, enquired with all dilige!]ce to difcover th~ Myftery thereof: And upon a ftri ét ·ex aminationi of the thing, ic was found that about l~x or feven Months befare, this Salaz.ar· had maintained a Law-fuit againft the Church-men, and that he had incurred the Cenfure of Excommunication, and had never been abfol ved from it. But upon this Acci- dent he defired Abfolution, and obtained it ; having declared bis intention never more to fall into the like Error of Contumacy again . I was then in th~ City, when this matter pa!led, and was pref ent at the Proceffion, and heard the Story thereof related more at large by others, than we have done in this Chaprer. CH A P. III. The Marquis of Caqnete is defi.gned far 0 Vice-King of Peru. ll.e lands upan ;he Continent. Severa/ Negers, or Bla ck._s, who were }ugitives, are reduced. The burning of a Galeop, with eight hundredpeop!e therein. · S O foon as News was brought to his Imperial Ma jefty then in Germany, of the death ofthe Vice-King Don Antonio de M endofa, he nominated .the Count de Palma, to fucceed him in that Employment, but on fome jnft grounds and reafons, heexcufed himfeif; the likedid the Count de Olivares, who was unwilling to ac- cept of that Government; Thofe who lived in the Jndics, did believe that the Great Men, who were commodious at home, w ere unwilling to accept an Office fo far diftant from Spain, and from the Court: Tho' a V ice-King who had re- fided there for fome time, was of another opin ion, and faid, that the Govern".:. ment of Peru would be the beft Employment the King had in his Gifc, \vere it not fo near to Madrid, where the Court refides. His meaning, was the c omplaints of the rnany oppreilions he exercifed on the Pe ople, would come fooner to the Court than he defired. At length his Majefty p itched upon Don Andres H wardo de Mendofa; Marquis of Cannete, and chief Conftable ?f Cfte~ca~ to be his Vice - King ~ Pern, who ha_ving accepted the O_ffice,a~d rece1ved h1s d1fpatches, depar- ted for· Pem, and arnved at Nombre de Dios, wh1ch he made t_he place ofr-efidence for the Minifrers of Juftice, and for che Oilicers of the Impenal Revenue.He there rewarded fome of the Ancient Conque,rors of (he lfles of Btirlovemo, and of t~e mam