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.

BoGK VII. Royal Cammelltaries. intercetlion of the Friends and ttelations of Hernandez. Giran in t heir beha lf. pre~ai~ed for_them~ and obrained th:ir Pardon. Among{t che man y Evil s and lmpieues which th1s Alvarado commrtted by order and direltion of his Gene- ral in tlús City of Coz.ca; it was none of the leafr, that in a Sacrdegious manner he robbed the Cathedral Church, and the Monafteries of tbe.Bells belonging to them. for from the Convent of our Lady of the Merceds, they took one of their two Bells, from the Dominicans they did tlíe like; but from che Convent of St . francis they took none, becaufe they had but one, which at the earnefl: iiltreaty of the Friers, they were perfwaded to leave. From the Cathedral, ouc ·of five Bells they ~ook only. two, and would have taken them ali, had not tíhe Bifhop with his Clergy appeared in their defence, and thundered out bis . Curfes and Excommunic-ations againft the·m ; for the Bells of the Cathedral were very great, and had beeo bleffed and confecrated by the Hands of che Bi- fhop with Chrifm and holy Oyl. Of thefe four Bells they founded fix pieces of Cannon, ooe of which burft upon the tryal ; and upon the biggeft of their Guns they impreft the word LIBERTIE, which was the plaufible name they gave for a pretence of their Rebellion. Thefe G uns which were made of hal1oweci · and fanél:ified Metal~ did never do any fervice, nor was any Man killed thcre- by, as we fha!I fee hereafter. Befides thís piece of Sacríledge, this Lord Licu- . tenant committed feveral Robberies and Spoils úpon che Eftates of thofe w_ho were fled, and of tbofe who were killed at the Battel of Chuquinca, and had the reputation of being rich, becaufe tbey wete better Husbands, and óot fo prodi- ga! as others who lived .in that City; and who, as ic was belíeved, had many Bars of Silver in tbeir poffeffioi:i : Alvat:ado by bis lnduftry, and by threats and menaces affrighted the 'lndians.into a difrovery of two Pits which Alonfo de Mefa had made in the Garden of bis Houfe ; from each of which they drew out fixty Bars of Silver, every Bar being of the value of Tbree hundred Du- cats. _l my felf had the fortune to fee them taken out, for the Houfe of A- lonfo de Mefa being in the middle of the Street where my Father's Houfe is, 1 m:nt thither at the fhout they made upon the difcovery of fo great a prize. Sorne few days after they took away . from the lndians, belonging to <john de Saa'TJeára, an hundred and .fifty Sheep of that Cou·ntrey, laden witb three hun- dred Bars of Silver, ali of the fame fize and value with the others. And now it was believed, that the reafon why this 1ohn de Saav-edra would not fly out of the City the night on whicb Hernandez. began bis Rebellion, as my Father and others would have perfwaded 9im, was to conceal and fecure his great qtianti- ty of Silver, which was thecapfe heloft both that and bis Life with it. The.fe two parcels of Silver accoi;di~g to the ufual valuation, amounted unto a ·bun- dred twenty fix thoufand Caftilian Ducats, of three hundred feventy five Mara-. vedis to each Oecat. And though Palentino faith, That Diego Ortiz. de Guz.man had fome fhare in the lofs thereof; for my part, 1 muft fay, That 1 knew nothing of it, nor did I ever hear, that any other was concerned befides the two before mentioned. · CH A ·P. XXI. Of the Rohbery co~mitted hy Antonio ~~rrill~,and óf the man• . ner of bis Death. The fucce/fes oj P1edrah1ta at Ar~quepa ; the ViElory which wasJ obtained by ·means of the ditferences which arofe there. N Or had the Sargeant Majar Carrillo ·been lefs notorious for bis Robberies (had his Life continued~ than werc thofe be~o~e named; ~or _he facked and plundered che new Plantauon, and the other Cm.es of che Drft:nq o~ <:_ol- laruwi · and in a very few days he plundered th¡; Caciques of that Junfd1ébon .'J J ' F f f f f f Qf ~53