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.

1000 _Royal Commentaries. B OOK VIII. with Hernandez.. Giran in bis Rebellon; and reduced the Prince, who was Heir t o t he Empire unto the Scrvice, and Obe<lience of his Catholick Maj eíl:y; which were 211 great thi ngs, and of high importance: He in the next place, raifed ftandi ng Forces of Horfe and Foo_t, to fc:cure the Ernpire in peace, and to de- fend the Power of the Courts of Jufüce, and his own Perfon. The Horfemen he called Lances, and the F ootmen M ufqueteers; to every Lance he affigned a _ Penfion of a thoufand Pieces of Eight ayear, with condition to maintain him- fe lf, Horfe, and Arms, without other charge, the which were 70 in number : The Mufqueteers .were to be 200, at five hundred pieces of Eight ayear, who were to be at all times in a readinefs, and to rnaintain and keep their Mufquets and other Arrns bright and well fixed. Thefe rnen were to be chofen out of thofe who were of approved Loyalty, and faithfolnefs to the Service of his Majeíl:y, tho' manygave them a different Charaéter, and termed them Perfons; who,if they had had their due,had been fü only for the Gallies,having been aétu- allyengaged in the Rebellions of Hernandez.. Giran, and Don Sebaftian de Caffilla, and who for the Murders they had committed, and the blood they had fpilt in privare quarrels amongft themfelves, had often deferved the Gallows; but ' ali was fmothered up, and the Vice-King's Commands obeyed: And now the Kingdom being quiet, and freed of thofe fears to which it was fubj eéted by the Seditions and Mutinies of a company of rafh and rebellious Souldiers; the Vice-King bended bis thoughrs rowards publick Edifices, and to matters of good Government : And at leifure hours he paffed bis time in 'boneíl: Pleafu res, and innocent Recreations: And herein hewas much diver- ted by an Jndian Boy of about 14 or 15 years of ·Age, who pretended to be a Jefl:er, and of a very facetious and pleafant Humour; He was prefented to the Vice-King, who too.k great delight to hear him talk, and utter hís Jittle impertinencies, part in che lndian, and pare in a corrupted Spanijh Tangue;· and particularly, when he would fay your Excellency, he would fay your Pe- fti lency, which made the Vice-King laugh heartily; and fome then in Com- pany, who joyned in laughter wit h him, would fay that thaE Title was more correfponding to him than the other, if it were rightly confidered, how greal a Plague and Pefülence he had been to thofe whom he had killed, and to their Children whofe Efl:ates he 'had confi. fcated : and to thofe whom he banifhed out of Peru, and fent them intoSpain, Poor, Naked, and Forlorn, whom ithad been a Merey to have killed, rather than to have treated in. that inhumane man- ner. And with fuc h refiefüons as thefe, evil Tongues afperfed all the afüons of theVice-King, as if Rigour and Severíty were not agreeabJe to the Nature and Conftitut ions of che People of Peru. , · A'midfl: thefe various Revolut ions of good and bad Fortune within this Kingdom, t he Marlhal Alonfo de Alvarado, after a long and tedious Sicknefs contraéted by Grief and Melancholly, dyed: For after the defeat which he received at the Battel of Chuquinca, he fcarcely enjoyed an hour of contentment, but pined, and macerated away , till the Lamp of his Life was totally extinguifhed : And becaufe the manner of 11is Death was fomething extraordinary, 'cwiU not be impertinent to recount it in this place, which was thus. When he was in his laft Agony of death, and ready to give up the Ghoft, they removed him out of his Bed, and laid· him u pon a Garpet in the fame Chamber, and by him a Crofs made in Alhes, .according to the Cuftom of the Knights of St. ']ago, or St. 'James: And having layen a lhort time upon the Carpet, be feemed to revive, 'and.. come to himfelf ; fo that they returned him again to bis Bed ; where afrer a fhort time falling into a like fü, bis Attendants laid him out on the Carpet in the fame manner as befare ; and then coming out of bis Leipo•, thymy, and feeming better, ~was again Iaíd into his Bed; and fo betwcen the Carpet, and the Bed, he c:ontinued for the fpace of forty days, to the gréat labour and trouble of his Servants, until at length he breathed his l aft. A fhort time afterwards his eldeft Son , dyed, by whofe deceafe the Eftate, which .defcended to him from his Father, carne to · devolve to the Crown: But his ·Majefty, confidering the great Services which the Marlhal had done, was pleafed to continue i~ t0 his fecond Son : whkh was a fa- v:our .granted to · yery few in 'iha~ Empire'. ' TI.te