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CHRIST new born; perhaps becaufe the Spaniards 

 conquered that Vale on the Day of the Epiphany, as many 

 'Arms of pretend. The Arms of the City feem to favour both Opi- 

 Xima. nions, the Efcutcheon is charged with three Crowns Or, 

 two and one, in a Field Azure, in chief a Star darting 

 Beams, fome add, in the Efcutcheon, Herculet's Pillars, 

 but in fevcral Places they only ftand without as Supporters, 

 with thefe two Words, Plus ultra, and the two Letters 

 See plate J and K 3 to denote the Names of Joanna and Charley be- 

 'aXXVIII. ing their Initials. Be that as it will, it is certain that 

 Name was not given it on Account of its having been 

 founded on the Day of the Epiphany,as Father FeiiiUee fays, 

 after Garcilaffo dela Vega, and in the Year 15345 but on 

 the 1 8th of January 1535, the Feftival of S. Peter s Chair, 

 as Francifco Antonio de Montalvo relates, in the Life of the 

 Bleffed Torihio, Bifhop of Lima, printed by the Title of 

 El Sol del Nuevo Mundo, or the Sun of the New World, 

 by the Procurement of D. J.Fr. de Valladolid, School Ma- 

 iler of the Metropolitan Church of that City, and Procu- 

 rator General at Rmne, for the Canonization of that Pre- 

 late. This Circumftance, and the Particular of the Names 

 of the Commiffioners appointed to choofe a Place for the 

 Situation of the City, and of the firft Inhabitants, are ftrong 

 ^Preemptions againft Garcilaffo. It is true, that Herrera 

 concurrs with him as to the Day of the Foundation ; but 

 he agrees with Montalvo as to the Year 1 53 5 . 



This Epocha is alfo determin'd by the Reafons Pizarro 

 had for building a City in the Place where Lima now 

 Hands ; for the fame Herrera tells us, that the Adelantado^ 

 or Lord Lieutenant Bon Pedro de Alvarado, coming from 

 "Guatemala to Peru, with an Army, with a Defign to make 

 himfelf Matter there, Pizarro came to make a Settlement 

 in the Vale of Lima, near the Port of Callao, which is the 

 beft on the Coaft, to obftruft his coming by Sea, whilft 

 Don Diego de Almagro march'd to oppofe him in the Pro* 



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