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R(!)'al .
Commentaries.
CH A P. XXI.
Of the Officers whic'h were fent to
Mexico
dnd
FerU;
to /ptit
the(e Laws into Execution.
And a Defcription of the
Imperial City of
Mexico.
W-
Hen thefe Laws_¿fche new EO:abliíhment carne ov~r ;
le
was farther orde.:
red, that the Courc held at
Panama
íhould be diffolved, .rnd another new
one ereéted
in
che confines of
Guatimala
and
NicarAgua,
to which Courc the
whole
Terra Firma,
or Continent, was to be fubjeéted.
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le was farther orda-ined , That another Courc ofOhancer_y íhould
be
ereéted
fü
Peru,
confüHng offour Judges and a Prefident, to whom che cicle íhould be gi•
ven of Vice,king and Captain General : And that a certain perfon íhould be fenc
unto New
Spain
with a power of Vifitation, to overfee che Government of ~he
Vice-king, and the Proceedi,1gs in che Court of
Mexico
and of the feveral Bi–
íhopricks , and to cake an account from the Officers of che Royal Revenue, and
ofall the Jufüces of that Kingdom.
·
Al! which Regulations were iífued forth with the aforementioned Ordinances:1
which, as formerly declared, were fourty in number. Aml whereas there refided
in the Court of
Spain
many
Indians
from al! pares ; divers Copies Gf chefe new
Rules were tranílated, ·fenc-over and difperfed, w~ich all and every particular per–
fon, inhabitants of chofe two Empires, took out
for
bis information, beiog of ge,
neral concernment : but
fo
difpleafing were nhefe new regulations to che generali–
.ty
of chofe People, chat in high difcoment -chey caballed togecher, and held
¡;iu-
blick meetings co conérive
a
remedy.
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Sorne few,days afcer che publicacion of chefeOrders, his Imperial Majefty no–
mi1,1ated
Don Francifco Tellbde Sandoval,
a
Native of
Seville,
who had been Inquiíl,.
tor
of
Toledo,
to be his Vificor, for which Office he judged him the moíl: proper
perfon he could chufe, in confideration chac he had formerly been a member of
-che Royal Council of the
Jndin,
and a perfon of greac probity and prudence, and
for that reafon , was well worchy of che emploirnenr, to fee chac che new Laws
íhould be pm in execurion as well in New
Spain
as in other pares of che Empire,
and to chat purpofe, that he íhould vifit ali places, to fee chem aétually perfor-
med and puc inco praétice.
,
At che fame time
El.afeo Nunne~ 1-'ela,
who was Surveyor General of che
Forrs
o[
Caftlle
was named Prefident and Vice-king of che Kingdoms and Provinces
o[
Peru
,
concerning which matter
Carate,
in che fetond Chapcer of his fifth
Book , .hach thefe words following , " The great experience his Majeíl:y had
" of chis Gentleman, whom he had tryed and approved in ocher Govermnencs
" of Councries and Cities, narnely, in
Malaga
and
Cuenca;
and having found
" rhat he was
a
Gentleman of great probity and reétitude, executing imparcial
" jufüce une.oali men withouc refpeét to perfons, and that he was ever zealous
for
" che Royal lntereíl:, and chac with greac courage he performed the King's Com–
" mands, and without failure in any ching; his Majeíl-y therefore judged him
wot–
" chy of chis honourable emploiment. Thus far are the words of
Carate.
Moreover
Don Diego de Cepeda,
a Native of
Torderji!ltu,
who had been Judge in
the Ifles of the
Canarin,
and
Don Li{on de Texada,
aNative of
Logroffno,
who had
been Judge of che Maríhal's Court held ac
Valladolid,
for deciding points of Ho–
nour, and
Don Alvarez.,
who had been a Pleader or Advocate in rhe fame Court, •
with
Don Pedro Ortez. de Carate,
aNative of che City of
Ordnnna,
formerly Mayor
of
S.egO'l{ia
,
were
áll
four put inco Cornmiffion , and appoimed Officers
in
chofe,
pares.
· Moreover
A11guftine de Carate
,
who had been Secretary of the f>rivy-Council,
was
appoinced Auditor General of ·al! che Accouncs of chofe Kingdoms and
Provinces, and of that whole Continent. To whom, and to the perfons above–
rnentioned, rhefe Rules and Orders above-mentioned were delivered, with Com-
o
o o o
1.
rnand;
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