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.

Thirtyfiic Ma rai1edir make fix penee. R.oyal_Comméntaries. BooK I. CH A P. 111. o¡ the little Money which Wa5 in Spain hefore the Conqueft of Peru. Tº make more evidently appear the great Riches which this Triumvirate put- . chafed to the World, we rnuft rnake a large digreffion frorn our deftgn in hand ; ~nd (or the rnQr~ c ¡lear e lucída~ion hereof, we múíl: make ufe of the Autho- ricy of fom~ HiÍl:orial.!~ .w.ho have nClted and defcribea the Revenue of certain KingdqJIJ~ 1 which before the Conquefl: of Peru were-vafily fhort of that Income, which th~y y1eld at pr,eíent. Bodinus in his Book ofCommonwealths fhews both in general, and particularly fpei;ifies Jihe füvenues of fome Commonwea!ths and Pri~~. to have been of inconfiderable value before the Conqueíl: of Peru, in com- parifon of their prefenl! im.provemerlts, and iníl:ances in feveral Eíl:ates which were mortgaged, or fo Id at mean prices; .he: tells us h~ fmall was the pay ofSouldiers, and the wages which Princes gave to their Servants, and at how· cheap a rate all things were fold; and in fhort, that what was formerly valued 1 at an hundred Crown~ a year, is now wórch a thoufand; and rhat all Lands and Houfes are rifen twenty times in the value of their rent. Farcher he infümces in the ranfome which Lewü the 9th. King o( France, paid for bis own Perfon to the Soldan of Egypt; which he fays arnounted to no more than five hundred thoufand Florins, and this he compares with the ranforne of three Millions 1 which Charles the firíl: of France P.aid to the Emperour, c;harles the )th. for his ranforne. Farther he adds, tbat irJ che Reign of Charles the 6tb. which was about the Year 1449. che.yearly Re- venue of rhe whole Crown of France' did not arnount to above fuur hundred thou- fand Frank~. and yet in the Year 1 5"74- when Charles the 9th dyed, the farne Re- venue was improved to fourteenMillions, and thelike proportion ofincreafe was advanced in ali other Kingdoms and Governrnents, whidi Examples ferve foffi- .ciently to dernoníl:rate in what rnanner ali the World haeh been -enriched by the Trea(ures of Peru. And inregard tl'!at Our Spain hath been efpecially obliged tli that Countrey, by the vaíl: effiuxes of i ts Wealth from thence, vve need noc feek or borrovv proofs hereof from other Countries, but onely coníider our ovvn ; nor need vve to look many Ages back, but onely from rhe ti111e of King Ferdimmd, furnarned the Saint, vvho regained CordVlla and Seville, ofvvhorn the General Hi~ ftory of Spain, written by Don Alonfo che wife , rnakes rnention 5 and tells us, that Don4úmfo the 9th. King of Lean, who was Father of K.ing Fernand the Saint, made ,W ;ir upon him; and chat his Son wrote him word, rhat as an obedient Child he was refolved never to refiíl: him , and thac he would gladly appeafe bis Anger with a11y (atisfaél:ion thac he fhould require of him; to wbich D1n Alonfo replied, That he r-equired·ofhim the payrnent of ten thoufand Maravedú, whic h he owed hirn, which when he had perforrned, he would chen ceafe his Wars, a.nd enter !,neo Arnity wjth hitrt. The whole Copy of che Lecter, wricten ar l arge , we ~ave omitted.to recite fot brevity fake ; onely we have choughdit to repeac th~ Anf wer, which w:is wrote in this manner: That tbe caufe of hi.sWar was for che recovery of ten thouf¡md Maravedi.·, which the King :Oon Enriq11ez., owed for che high waywlúch he had rnade to Santfvanne<. de la Mota, and thac paying this Money, the,QQ.arrel fhould encl 5 whereupon che King Fernando, not being willing to wage War with his Father for ten thoufand Mlilravedü, prefemly made him fa- tisfafüon ; che which is related in the general Chronicle of Spain 1 and in che par;_rj- cular Life of .l(ing Fernando. · . About che fame time a certain Knight, who wore the red Crofs as abadge of hisPilgrirnage unto the Holy Land, named &y Ditu , began to comrnit many in- folences before bis departure; for wbich Offences divers complaints corning againfr hirn, he was cited to appear before che Courts of Juíl:ice, to make anfwer to rhofe Accufations which were laid againíl: hrm; u pon whicb fu1nmons Dia. making his appt>a-