The royal commentaries of Peru, in two parts the first part, treating of the original of their Incas or kings, of their idolatry, of their laws and government both in peace and war, of the reigns and conquests of the Incas, with many other particulars relating to their empire and policies before such time as the Spaniards invaded their countries : the second part, describing the manner by which that new world was conquered by the Spaniards : also the civil wars between the Piçarrists and the Almagrians, occasioned by quarrels arising about the division of that land, of the rise and fall of rebels, and other particulars contained in that history : illustrated with sculptures / written originally in Spanish by the Inca Garcilasso de la Vega ; and rendered into English by Sir Paul Rycaut, Kt.

CHAP. II.

The President, having made the several Assignments of Land, went privately to the City of Los Reyes: And writes a Letter to those for whom no Provisions were made, which caused great Disturbances amongst them.

THE President being retired into the Valley of Apurimac was employed there for the space of three months and more, about dividing to every man his proportion of Lands, during which time he received Addresses and Petitions from many persons, setting forth their services and sufferings; of which little or no notice was taken, because that the scheme of all matters was already drawn, and a repartition of the Lands was resolved upon and made amongst the principal Officers under the command of Pedro de Hinojosa, as was capitulated and agreed when the Fleet belonging to Gonçalo Piçarro was surrendred to the President, as is confirmed by the Historians of that time. The President having made the Di∣vision on no better grounds, nor with other measures than those which he and the Archbishop Don Jeronimo de Loaysa, (who were both Strangers to the Countrey) had contrived, he went to the City of Los Reyes, and ordered the Arch-bishop within ten or twelve days afterwards to repair to Cozco, and then to publish the Distributions which he had gratiously made: and in regard some were so unfor∣tunate as to have no provisions made for them, he wrote them a consolatory Let∣ter, signifying his hearty desires and his real intentions to gratify them as occasion should offer. The Letter which he wrote to them was this; extracted verbatim from the History of Palentino; the Superscription whereof was this;