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Ill.
Royal
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A ·P.
XXI.
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Of
the Officers which were fent to
Mexico
and
Peru,
to
p~d
the(e Laws into Execution.
And
a
Defcription
()f
the
Imperial City of
Mexico.
I
w·
Hen tbefe Laws of the new Eftablifhment came over ; It was farther orde–
red
that the Court held at
Panan'Ja
fhould be diffolved, and another new
1
one
ereCl:ed 'in the confines of
Guatima-la
and
N icaragua,
to which Court the
whole
Terra Firma,
or Continent, was
to
be fubjeeted.
It was farther ordained , That another Court ofChancery fhould be ereeted in
Peru,
confifiing of four Judges and a Prefident, to wholl? the title iliould be gi–
ven
of
Vice~king
and Captain General: And
that
a certam perfon fhould be fent
unto New
Spain
with a power of Vifitation, to overfee the Government of the
Vice-king , and the Proceedings in the Court of
Mexico
and of the feveral Bi–
fuopricks , and
to
take an account from the Officers of the Royal Revenue, and
of all the
J
uftices of that Kingdom.
All which
Regulations were
Hfued
forth with the aforementioned Ordinances,
which, as formerly
declared,
were fourcy
in
number.
And
whereas there
refided
,
in
the Court of
Spain
many
Indians
from all parts ; divers Copies of
thefe
new
Rules were tranflated, fem-over and
difperfe~
which all and every particular per–
fon, inhabitants of thofe two Empires, took out for his information, being of
ge–
neral concernment : but
fo
difpleafing were thefe new regulations to the generali-
ty
of thofe
People,
that
in
high difcontent
they
caballed
together,
and held
pu–
blick meetings to contrive a remedy.
Some
few
days
after the publication of thefe Orders, his Imperial Majefiy no–
minated
Don Francifco Tello
de Sandoval,
a Native of
Seville,
who had been Inquifi..
tor of
Toledo,
to be his Vilitor, for
which
Office
he
judged him the moll: proper
perfon he could chufe, in confideration that he had
formerly
been a member of
the Royal Council of the
Indie.r,
and
a
perfon of great probity and prudence, and
for
chat
reafon,
was well worthy of
the emploirnenr ,
to
fee that the
new Laws
iliould
be
put
ll;l
execution
as well in
New
Spain
as
in other parts of the Empire,
and
co
that purpofe, that he fhould vifit
all
places,
co fee
them
actually
perfor–
med and put
into
praetice.
At the fame time
B lafco
Nunne~
Vela,
who was Surveyor General of the Forts
of
C11ftile
was named Prefident and Vice-king of the Kingdoms and Provinces
of
Peru,
concerning which matter
Garate,
in the fecond Chapter of his fifth
Book, hath thefe words following, " The great experience his Majefry had
" <:>f
r.his
Gentleman,
whom he had tryed and approved in other
Governments
ct
of
Countries
and
Cities,
namely,
in
Malaga
and
Cuenca ;
and
having
found
(( that
he
was a
Gentleman of great
probity and rectitude ,
executing impartial
" jufiice unto all men without refpeet to perfons, and that
he
was ever zealous for
'' the Royal Interefr, and that with great courage he performed the King's Corn–
" rnands, and
withoet failure in
any thing; his
Ma}efty therefore
judged
him
wor–
,, thy
of this honourable emploiment. Thus far are the words of
Carate.
Moreover
D on
D iego
de
Cepeda,
a
Native of
TorderfillM,
who had been Judge
in
the
Hles of theCanaries,
and
D on
L ifon
de
Texada,
a N ative of
Logronno,
who had
been
Judge.ofthe
Mar fhal1s
Court held at
Palladolid,
for deqiding points of
Ho–
nour,
and
D on
A lvarez.,
V\
ho had been a Pleader or Advocate in the fame Court
with
Do~
Pedro
Orte~
de Carate?
a
N ative
C?f
the
City of
Ord1tnnd,
formerly Mayo;
of·
eg()1Jia
,
were all four put mto Comm1ffion , and appointed Officers in thofe
parts.
Morem.~er Auguftin~
de Carate
\:vho
had been Secretary of
t
1e
Privy-
Council ,
-,as
appomted Auditor General of all the Accounts of thofe Kingdoms and
Prov~ces,
and of thJ.t whole Continent. To whom, and
to
the perfons above..
menr10ned , thefe Rules and Orders above-mentioned were delivered, with Com-
o
o o o
z
rnand
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