MICHOACACAN.
773
broad road of peace and prosperity, broken only by occasional disturbance on the eastern border.[1]
As a province subject to the audiencia of Mexico, it was ruled by alcaldes mayores,[2] to whom were answerable a number of lieutenants and chiefs, controlling different towns and tribes.[3] Their residence
Transfer of the Episcopal Seat
- ↑ At Yuririapúndaro are still to be seen in the convent garden three trees, called 'Trompon y de las mujeres libertadas,' and planted in commemoration of the rescue by the Indian chief Trompon of two women who in 1588 had been carried off from the town by Chichimec raiders. Soc. Mex. Geog., Boletin, ix. 163.
- ↑ The first person whose name is preserved to us by the records is Juan del Hierro, who in 1581 was succeeded by Doctor Alonso Martinez. For subsequent rulers, see Linares, in Soc. Mex. Geog., Boletin, 2da ép., iv. 637-8.
- ↑ Among these chiefs were descendants of the unfortunate Tangaxoan, one of whose blood, Diego Tomás, was made captain-general of the Chichimec frontier and principal chief of the Tarascan cacique, receiving also the title of hijodalgo, together with the grant of Panjamo. A letter from the audiencia in Ternaux-Compans, Voy., série ii. tom. v. 206, alludes to several sons of Tangaxoan. Beaumont refers only to the career of Antonio, and his son Pablo, married to a Spanish lady, and enjoying an annuity from the crown. Crón. Mich., iii, 361. Brasseur de Bourbourg mentions also Fernando, and a docu-
