ROYAL AUDIENCE. 



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of Blasco, the president and viceroy ; and that of Lima was 

 but of short duration. Lison having been sent prisoner to 

 Spain, and Zepeda having set out to join the army of Gonzalo 

 t*izarro, the above-mentioned Zarate was the only one of the 

 judges who remained ; on which account, and the better to 

 confirm his authority, Pizarro carried off with him the royal 

 seal. Accordingly, when the licentiate Pedro de la Gasca 

 was, in 1546, named president, the dispatch observed, of 

 the royal audience which did exist in Peru. 



Notwithstanding the new judges, Domingo Renteria, and 

 Andres Zianca, did in reality embark with the president Gasca, 

 the latter w^as prevented from establishing and regulating the 

 order- of the dispatch, by the necessity to which he was re- 

 duced, to follow the traces of Gonzalo, until his defeat and 

 subsequent imprisonment, in the valley of Xaqui-raguna, four 

 leagues from Cusco, which happened on the 9th of April 



1548. As soon, however, as the rebel and his followers had 

 received the punishment due to their crimes, the royal audi- 

 ence was established on a' solid basis. On the 13th of March 



1549, Melchor Bravo and Andres Zianca took their seats in 

 their judicial capacity ; and on the 27th of June of the same 

 year, their example was followed by the licentiates Hernando 

 Santillana and Maldonado. These documents are extra6led 

 from an authentic MS. in the possession of the society, but 

 which does not throw any light on the destiny of the licentiate 

 Renteria. 



The manuscript in question, which commences by the 

 schedule of the president Blasco Nunez Vela, after stating 

 that a salary of five thousand ducats was annexed to his office, 

 makes the following curious extra6t from the schedule itself : 



X And 



