Ecuador -- History -- To 1809; Peru -- History -- 1548-1820; Peru -- History -- Conquest, 1522-1548; Pizarro, Gonzalo, -1548
All who fought in the war between Pizarro and Almagro, on both sides,
to be deprived of all grants of Indians. This would include all the
settlers in Peru.
[4] The original grants were for two lives.
[5] It appears that over 300 Indians had been brought from Peru to
Panama by their owners. The Viceroy ordered them to be released and
sent back.
[6]
Blasco Nuñez Vela, native of Avila, then General Overseer of the
Guards of Castille, Viceroy and President of the Court of
Justice, selected because he would enforce the royal orders with
rigour.
1 Licentiate Diego de Cepeda, native of Tordesillas, then a Judge
in Gran Canaria--Judge.
2 Licentiate Lison de Tejada, a native of Logroño--Judge.
3 Licentiate Alvarez--Judge.
4 Licentiate Pedro Ortiz de Zarate, a native of Orduña, who was
then chief magistrate in Segovia--Judge.
Agustin de Zarate, then Secretary of the Royal Council, was,
appointed Accountant. He had been for 15 years Comptroller of
accounts for Castille. He took as little part as possible in
the troubles, confining his energies to his own department. On
his return the Emperor made him Superintendent of finances in
Flanders. He collected materials for a book which he wrote when he
had leisure in Spain. It was published at Antwerp in 1555, Seville
1577, and by Barcia. He writes as an eye-witness of the events
which led to the expulsion of the Viceroy, but as a prejudiced
partizan against Gonzalo Pizarro.
[7] People he afterwards put to death.
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