Htilorie of the Indies, lib.tf. 4,71 



other things at the Indies . The which importcs much 

 tobeknowneto avoydethe errour and inconvenien 

 ces whefeinto many fall (which know not which is the 

 lawfull wife or the concubine among the Indiansjcau- 

 fing the Indian that is baptized to marry with his con- 

 cubine 5 leaving the lawfullwife : thereby alfo wee may 

 feethefmall reafbnfome have had, that pretended to 

 fay, that wee ought to ratifie the marriage of thofe that 

 were baptized 3 although they were brother and fitter. 

 The contrary hath beene determined by the provinci- 

 all Synodeof Lj-ma, , with much reafbn, feeing among 

 the Indians- themfelves this kind of mariagc is vnlawfuL 



Of the Originallofthe Inguas Lords fifPemjvith 

 their Conqttefts andViftorks. 

 CHAP, 19. 



BY the commandementofD0# Phillip the Catho- 

 like King, they have made the moft dilligent and 

 exad: iearch that could be, of the beginning, cuftomes, 

 and priviledges of the Inguas, the which was not fb 

 perfe&ly done as was defired : for that the Indians had 

 no written recordes : yet they have recovered that 

 which I fhall write, by meanes of their M$OS and re- 

 gifters. Firft there was not in Peru in olde time , any 

 King or Lord to whome alF obeyed , but they were 

 connninaltics , as at this day there be in the realme of 

 Ckiffe andinamancr, in all the Provinces which the 

 Spaniards have conquered in thofe weftcrne Indies^ 

 except the real\ne of Mexico. You muft therefore vn- 

 derftand, that they liuve found three maner of govern 

 ments at the Indies. The firfl and beft, was a Monar- 

 chie ; asthatofthe IngtMs, and QMou$uwa> although 



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