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CONTENTS.
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| CHAPTER XXXII. | |
| RELIGIOUS ORDERS. | |
| 1550-1600. | |
| The Society of Jesus in New Spain — Distinguished Patrons of the Order and their Services — Importation of Holy Relics — Spread of the Jesuits through the Country — Brothers of Charity and St Hyppolytus — Purposes of the Association — The Carmelites — Their Labors and Advancement — Benedictines and their Priory in Mexico — The Franciscans and their Several Provinces — Their Work and Influence — Troubles with the Viceroys — Noted Franciscans in the Several Provinces — Order of Barefooted Franciscans — Their Custodial and Provincial Organization The Dominicans and their Successes — Their Distinguished Men — The Order of St Augustine — Strict Rules — The Mercenaries, or Order of Mercy — Their Settlement in Mexico — Religious Brotherhoods and the Objects of their Devotion — Nunneries in Mexico, Oajaca, and Michoacan, and their Uses | 700 |
| CHAPTER XXXIII. | |
| FIFTH, SIXTH, AND SEVENTH VICEROYS. | |
| 1580-1589. | |
| Suarez de Mendoza, Count de la Coruña — A too Benignant Rule — Golden Times for the Corrupt Officials — Suarez well out of It — Archbishop Moya y Contreras Made Visitador — Then Viceroy — A Stem Ruler — He Makes Money for his Master — Hard Times for the Wicked Officials — They Beg Deliverance from Moya — And Receive It — Zúñiga, Marqués de Villamanrique — A Just and Moderate Rule — Pirates on the West Coast — Cavendish Captures a Galleon — A Rare Prize — California Coast Defences — Commerce on the Atlantic — Epidemic, Earthquakes, and Social Disruption — Villamanrique Deposed and Humiliated | 739 |
| CHAPTER XXXIV. | |
| CLOSE OF THE CENTURY. | |
| 1589-1600. | |
| Rumored Insurrection — Fears of Velasco, the New Viceroy — Reception — City Improvements — The Chichimecs — The Mines of Guanajuato, San Luis Potosí, and Zacatecas — Founding of Towns — Philip Wants More Money — Velasco's Astute Measure — Conde de Monterey, Viceroy — Futile Efforts to Move the Indian — Race Intermixtures — Nuevo Leon — Occupation of the Northern Country — Governor Carabajal — Review of the Century- — Bibliographical — Writers Subsequent to the Conquest — Torquemada among Others | 757 |
