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Updated: June 25, 2025
Soon after most of the ricos and fashionables left the saloon, but some tireless votaries of Terpsichore still lingered until the rosy Aurora peeped through the "rejas" of the Casa de Cabildo. The "Llano Estacado," or "Staked Plain" of the hunters, is one of the most singular formations of the Great American Prairie.
He caused the cabildo of Cuzco to write letters to the other cities of Peru to concur in his elevation and to give assistance in the cause, and wrote many letters himself to various individuals in Las Charcas and other places, soliciting them to join him.
'Why, yes. But it's a confounded nuisance. The fellow's everlastingly cadging for smokes. Sir, I turned my eyes away, and then asked, 'Weren't you one of the prisoners in the Cabildo? 'You know very well I was, and in chains, too, says he.
It resulted that, at ten o'clock at night, there was a peal of bells, as if for a ship from Castilla; and the members of the cabildo, escorted by many personages, went to render obedience to the Troyan.
He sent notifications to the ecclesiastical cabildo, the religious orders, etc., of an act ordering that they should not admit into their churches the master-of-camp Don Juan de Vargas Hurtado, or the auditors, or many other persons and military officers who had a share in his banishment, or in the deportation of the Dominican provincial and other friars.
With this petition for relief the dean and cabildo presented a mass of records in proof of their argument, asking that decrees be issued: one for the archbishop, that he should remove from his side the said Fray Raymundo; and another for the father provincial of St.
It being still early, he wandered for a time about the strange old city; but the crooked streets and their quaint shops had lost their charm. The ancient Place d'Armes, the old Cabildo, the French market, the tumble-down buildings which house the courts of justice ceased to interest him.
"Lima is about to solemnize the most august act which has been performed for three centuries, or since her foundation; this is the proclamation of her independence, and absolute exclusion from the Spanish government, as well as from that of any other foreign potentate, and this Cabildo wishing the ceremony to be conducted with all possible decorum and solemnity, considers it necessary that your Excellency, who has so gloriously co-operated in bringing about this highly desired object, will deign to assist at the act with your illustrious officers, on Saturday, the 28th instant."
With tears in her eyes, she bent her head and her fresh young lips just touched his withered brow. "Good-by," she said. "I am so sorry for you!" And she was gone, leaving him sitting there motionless as though life had departed. A rattling cab that clattered noisily past the cabildo and calaboza, and swung around the square, aroused the marquis.
Then, the news of the change in government having come, was begun the fabrication of a scheme or plot, well covered up, as follows: They fully persuaded the governor that this one was a schismatic as it were, another Inglaterra in the time of Henry VIII; and, to forward their schemes as he had, before all the religious orders, recognized the cabildo as ecclesiastical ruler they persuaded the father provincial of St.
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