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Chap. IV. 





CtTvay*Ut 

 and Piz*rro 



Ufurpation of Peru > To which P/'^rro anfwer'd, faying, I haVe J}>ent my olt>n EJtate 

 in the Service of the Spanifli CroV>n,and might lawfully take upon me the Government of Peru, 

 haying with the lop of my Brother's Life, and the hazard of my oT»n, dif cover d the fume. 

 farVayales cfcaping out of the Fight, had hid himfelf in a Thicket of Canes, but 

 being difcover'd by his own People, was by them brought before Gafca, who the 

 next clay after the Battel caus'd him to be Quarter'd alive, and Pi^arros Head to 



bmh'put'to b c cut off in Prifon - the other Prifoncrs were moft of them kill'd in cold Blood. 



*%* y Gafca thus become abfolute Mafter of Peru, found an incredible Treafure left by 

 Pi^arro, of whj^h he gave to every common Soldier above fix thoufand Ducats } 

 and with this his victorious Army march'd to Cufco, where he employ 'd his Execu- 

 tioners afrefli, in Hanging, Drawing, and the like- fomc that were ftigmatiz'd 

 and condemn d to the Galleys, accounted themfelvcs happy that they had efcap'd 

 fo. Gafca, though Victor, perceiv'd no fmall Troubles to threaten him, having 

 twenty five hundred Men in Arms, of which every one for their faithful Service 

 judg'd that they deferv'd fome Office or other, there being then above a hundred 

 and fifty to difpofe of, Pi^arro having Executed the chiefeft Officers, and thofe 

 that bore any Command under him being either flecj or kill'd in the laft Fight : but 

 the fmall rmrnber of Officers that were wanting, was not to be compar'd to all 

 tnofc that gap'd for Commiffions. The Revenues, which yearly amounted to 

 eleven hundred thoufand Ducats, went moft of it away amongft the Officers, the 

 common Soldiers getting onely a fmall Snip out of it ; wherefore many began to 

 murmur, and were upon the point of Mutinying, ifCianca, the Judge of criminal 

 Caufes, taking the chief of them, had not punifli'd theminfuch a manner, that all 

 the reft being terrifi'd, gave over their Complaints. After Gafca had fpent above 

 nine hundred thoufand Ducats in the War 'againft Pi^arro . all which Money he 

 took up upon Intereft, which, after having fetled the Kingdom in Quietnefs, he 

 paid for the moft part \y ith the Goods taken from the Rebels. Next he made a Law 

 concerning xhsJPeruVians paying of Tribute, which before the Spaniards fore'd from 

 them whenfoe're and howfoe're they pleas'd, with the greateft Tortures imagi- 

 nable. 



Gafca having again erected in Los P^eyos the high Court of Judicature, in which 

 fat the Imperial Judges, return'd home with an unvaluable Mafs of Treafure for 

 Charles the Fifth ,and left the Peruvian Government to the Judge Qanca 5 fince which 

 time Peru hath been Govern'd by Vice-Roys, the firft whereof, who fucceeded Ci- 

 nncA y was Antonio Mendo^a, and after him fucceflively Andreas Uurtado Mendo^a, Diego 

 Valaj "co, Lope^ Garcia* de Cajlro, Fr anc if co de Toledo, Martin Enriaues, Garcias 9fendo%a, 

 Ludovico Velaj'co^ znAJuan Pacheco, under whom the Peruvian Kingdom hath enjoy'd 

 Peace and Quiet, to the confiderablc enriching of the Spanifl) Inhabitants. 



Thus much of the antient Tranfa&ions in Peru, it will now be requifite to give 

 you a brief Account of the feveral Provinces in this mighty Kingdom. 



The Countrey is generally divided into thr xtJuridicial%eforts,zs they call them, 

 or Courts of Appeal, which are Quito, Lima, and Charcot ; but the particular Pro- 

 vinces, as they arc commonly obferv'd by Geographers, are faid to be fix, Vi%* 

 1. Quito. i.LosQuixos. yLima. 4. Cufco- 5. Charcot, and 6*Collao. 



Peru Gover- 

 ned by Vicc- 

 Roys. 



ivifion of 

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Sect. 



