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.

i Booi< VI. Royal Commentarier:. ·-· in thePrifon at Ya!letdoli~, bis Ca~fe ~as áe:ve..r,. cl€cermhted. l hid once in -my ~oífeffion the reafons he produced mh1s ow11 defence, whkh iñde~d a~e fq ílrong that whofoever reads them muíl: neceífarily acqúi~ hitn, and allow him to have · been a true ana faithfull fervant to his Majell:y : He was more.happy in Che goods ·of mind than in thofe óf fo¡tune; .for though he had amaífed vaíl Riche5 ánd ac- quired great Honours, yet I bave fe~rt him m\lch affiiél:ed, ·and neceffitciils in pri- fon. · • ·. · Thus far th1s Doél:our, who giving alfü a relatión of the deáth of Count PeJro Navarro, one of the moLl famaus Captains of his time, tays alrhoíl the·fame that we have·done of the death of Ceped1t, viz. Thac the Officer in whofe cuftody hé was , being his great Friend , did ftrangle him in prifon to prevent an Attaindet _ baving gained all tbe Kingdom of Nap!es, &c. Tfius forrune produces-caffrof che like nature over all the World, that men comparing the miferies of Glttíer5 with tbeir own , may leam to compaffionate each ochers fortqws. ~ . . . The Prefident Ga{ca arrived in fafecy at the Cicy of P an~ma, wiili rifüte than a rnillion and a half of Gold and Silver, which he carried inco Spairi for accoimf uf bis Majefly ; ·befides as much more for prívate rnen, who were paífengers with him. At that place a,f.lrange acxident happened which Hiíl:orians mention: but in rcgard .Auguftine de C1tr11te is more particular cherein than any other Amhour ~ we ffiall malíé ufe ofhis rel~tion, toucfiing the Execution of ene of chofe new Or- dióances or l.aws which ha ve made fudi a noife in the World, and 1 taifi:d Muti- . ni~s and Rebellions in all quarters : and therefore we fhalí in the firll ·place repeat wñac he fays of the begiMing of this rebelli0n, and th~n as to th~ Pr:óceedings the'reof, w.e ffiall tefer our felves to che other Authours ;, as alfo for d'ie: ijuanti~ ties of Gold and Silver which were robbed by the Contrera/ ; who, if they had tontented themfelves .with the prey they had 'taken, and had known how to fecure it . they had revenged the jnjuries they fu~ained wich great advantage : _but the h~at of youch tranfported them beyond che terms of moderacion ; ana being uri.; ~ienced in the are of War, they loíl aH again togethef with chejr lives: all wtíich is fpecified by Alfluf!ine part1tt in· th~ fevench B~o.IC_~f.,.his I-Jiítory of PerH~ . Chap. 12. the Tlde of wfoch ihs foilo;.veth, ánd wh1'~h we make the eleventh of thefe 0\11:' Commentaries. ~ · . ~ . · , r , .- r • 1 •. ' I o. •• ~ .tJf what l)appene~ to Hernándo ailJ Peor~ de Contreta~; who ·were at Nicaragua, and went in queft a11d ,purfuit of the Prefident. 1.· . • , ;,N. . 1 rüA T that time, when Pearó .Ari:U Da.vÍÍit governed iind difcov.er ~l the Prd~ .n. vince of NicaragHlt, he married one of bis Daughrers called Do nna Mariá Pcn1111/ofa to .Rodrigo de Contrm.u a Native of the Ciry of SegM;la, a principal per- füir, and one of a great Eílate there : By che deatn of Pedro AriM· the Govern:. · meht Qf that Proviqce fell to Rodrigo 4t Coñtrmu 5 who having been nominaced thereunto by his Fat~et-in~law Pedro 1,ria& ,_ and hav.ing.deferve~ well for,his Lqy• alcy to theCrown, h1s Ma1efty was pleafed co confirm hun thereín by Ípécial Com- miffion; and accGrdingly l}e govetned for fome years, untill a new Court ofJudi- cature was ereóted in the Gin.y of Gracilli de Dios, which borders on the confine5 of tfuitima/a; and then the riew Jufüces did not onely deprive Rbdrigo de Contrmti of bis Government ; bue likewife puuing in execution Qne Qf che new Laws be- fore mentioned , they ac<}uirted ali bis In'dil{ns; as.well tlfofe which belongea to himfelf as thofe which carne ro him by his Wife from rl'ieir ducy and fel'Vices; as alfo chofe lndians which he·had fetled updn his Childrén during tlie time of his Office : of which hard ufage Rodrig o complaining petitioned for a redre~ in confi• deracion of the many fervkd w.hí (b botH bis Father·in·law and all his family had · performeii