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portion of Peru, aud liad two or tbree times resided in Lima ; 

 and in his journeys he was always attended by a small retinue 

 of Indians, and sometimes accompanied by a chaplain. 



In about 1770 Tupac Amaru went to Lima to establish his 

 claim to the Marquisate of Oropesa, whicli had been granted 

 to his family by Philip II. After some delay his claim was 

 acknowledged by the Royal Audience, and, in a judgment pro- 

 nounced by the Fiscal Don Serafin Leytan y Mola, he was 

 declared to be the heir to the marquisate, as fifth in lineal 

 descent from the luca Tupac Amaru ; but it would appear 

 that this judgment was withheld from official publication. It 

 was said that the fiscal jiaid the successful suitor so many 

 honours, and said so many complimentary things concerning 

 his nobility and royal descent, that he grew proud ;^ and it 

 certainly appears that he adopted a style of living in his 

 mountain home at Timgasuca, after his retm-n from Lima, 

 which he had not previously assumed.^ It is remarkable that, 

 in 1618, the Viceroy Prince of Esquilache wrote a desj)atch 

 on the claims to jurisdiction of the members of the Inca 

 family, who were heirs to the marquisate of Oropesa. He 

 represented that very great inconvenience might arise from 

 any descendant of the Incas, particularly of the family of 

 Oropesa, so closely representing the direct line, holding any 

 jmisdiction in Peru. The estates of the marquisate were the 



7 From a MS. at Lima, headed " En ' The decision of the Koyal Audience 

 el Cuzco, Dec. 3, 1780." j of Lima disposes of the statement of 



^ lucii Manco had two sons, Sayri j Baron Humboldt (Political Essay, i. 

 Tupac and Tupac Amaru. Clara Bea- j). 208), that " the pretended Inai was 

 ti"iz Coya, daughter of Sayri Tupac, ! a Mestizo, and liis trae father a monk." 

 married Don IMartiu Garcia de Loyola, Humboldt was certainly misinformed, 

 and had a daughter, Lorenza, created as there is not a shadow of grounds 

 Marchioness of Oropesa and Countess ! for the assertion. Tupac Amarus 

 of Alcanises, with remainder to the birth is never questioned in any of tlie 

 descendants of her gi'eat-uncle, Tupac - documents in my possession, consisting 

 Amtiru. She married Don Juan Hen- ' of his sentence of deatli, proclamations, 

 riijuez de Borja, but, in 1770, there ' and letters from his enemies, in wliich 

 were no desceniknts of this miirriage, no opportunity is lost of blackening 

 and the descendant of Tupac Anuiru liis memory, 

 was the lawfid heir to the marquisate. 



