CONTENTS.
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| CHAPTER XXIX. | |
| THE ÁVILA-CORTÉS CONSPIRACY. | |
| 1564-1568. | |
| The Audiencia's Weak Rule — Ill Feeling toward the Marqués del Valle — Encomienda Policy — Alonso de Ávila's Masquerade — Plot against the Crown — Valderrama Returns to Spain — Conspiracy Reported — Great Christening of the Marqués' Twins — Arrest of the Marqués and Others- — Trial and Execution of the Brothers Ávila — Marqués de Falces, Third Viceroy — Marqués del Valle Sent to Spain — Falces Deposed by Muñoz and Carrillo — Their Cruel Course — Martin Cortés Tortured — His Courage — Complaints Reach the Crown — Summary Removal of Muñoz and Carrillo — Their Fate — Falces Vindicated — Second Rule of the Audiencia — Sufferings of the Marqués — Final Acquittal — Loss of Domain and Property — His Death — Return of Luis Cortés — Later Life of Martin Cortés | 602 |
| CHAPTER XXX. | |
| RULE OF VICEROY ENRIQUEZ. | |
| 1568-1580. | |
| Temporary Government of the Audiencia — John Hawkins Invades Vera Cruz — His Defeat and Expulsion — Fate of the English Prisoners — Viceroy Martin Enriquez de Almansa — Drake's Operations — Foreign Raids — Yucatan, its Government and Indian Affairs — First Acts of Enriquez — Organization of Military Forces — Campaigns against the Chichimecs — Presidios and Movable Block-houses — Matlalzahuatl Epidemic and its Havoc — Famine — Inundation — Recall of Enriquez — His Government Policy — His Death | 637 |
| CHAPTER XXXI. | |
| CHURCH GOVERNMENT. | |
| 1550-1600. | |
| Archbishop Alonso de Montúfar — Jealousy between the Secular and Regular Clergy — Royal Support of the Friars — Differences between the Friars and the Civil Power — Father Gerónimo de Mendieta Defends the Religious — His Works — Position of the Friars and their Influence with the Natives — Persons Excluded from the Priesthood — Religious Riot in Mexico — The Sacramental Dispute — First and Second Ecclesiastic Councils of Mexico — Archbishop Montúfar's Death — The Inquisition — Its Establishment, Privileges, Objects, and Acts — Father Landa's Treatment of Idolaters — Archbishop Moya y Contreras — Third Ecclesiastic Council and its Acts — Archbishop Montúfar's Departure — Alonso Fernandez de Bonilla Succeeds Him — Other Dioceses in the Country and their History | 663 |
