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Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican, Vol. 1 of 2: A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time.Mayer, Brantz

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Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican, Vol. 1 of 2: A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time.

Name: Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican, Vol. 1 of 2: A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time.
Author: Mayer, Brantz

Mayer, Brantz

Mexico -- Description and travel; Mexico -- History; Mexico -- Statistics

1st year.  | 14th year.  |  27th year. | 40th year.
              |             |             |
   1 Tochtli  |  1 Acatl    |  1 Tecpatl  |  1 Calli
   2 Acatl    |  2 Tecpatl  |  2 Calli    |  2 Tochtli
   3 Tecpatl  |  3 Calli    |  3 Tochtli  |  3 Acatl
   4 Calli    |  4 Tochtli  |  4 Acatl    |  4 Tecpatl
   5 Tochtli  |  5 Acatl    |  5 Tecpatl  |  5 Calli
   6 Acatl    |  6 Tecpatl  |  6 Calli    |  6 Tochtli
   7 Tecpatl  |  7 Calli    |  7 Tochtli  |  7 Acatl
   8 Calli    |  8 Tochtli  |  8 Acatl    |  8 Tecpatl
   9 Tochtli  |  9 Acatl    |  9 Tecpatl  |  9 Calli
  10 Acatl    | 10 Tecpatl  | 10 Calli    | 10 Tochtli
  11 Tecpatl  | 11 Calli    | 11 Tochtli  | 11 Acatl
  12 Calli    | 12 Tochtli  | 12 Acatl    | 12 Tecpatl
  13 Tochtli  | 13 Acatl    | 13 Tecpatl  | 13 Calli

  See 1st vol. Ethnol. Trans. ut antea page 63.

[Footnote 13: No doubt tortillias, or maize cakes--still the staff of
life with all the Indians and, indeed, a favorite and daily food of
all classes of Mexicans.]

[Footnote 14: Bernal Diaz Del Castillo's Hist. Conq. Mexico.]

[Footnote 15: Prescott, vol. 1, p. 35.]

[Footnote 16: Prescott, vol. 1, p. 39, and compare Lorenzana's edition
of Cortéz's letters.]

[Footnote 17: See Ethnological Trans. 1 vol., p. 96, and Am. Journal of
Science and Arts, second series, vol. vii., p. 155. March No. for 1849.]

[Footnote 18: See Trans. Amer. Ethnol. Soc'y., vol. 1, p. 94. We should
remark that the letters Q. Q., X. Z., P. P., S. Y., on the edge of the
stone, denote holes cut into it, in which it is asserted that gnomons
were placed whose shadows on the calendar converted it into a dial.]




  BOOK II.

  NEW SPAIN
  UNDER THE VICEROYAL GOVERNMENT.
  1530-1809.




BOOK II.




CHAPTER I.

INTRODUCTORY.

    COLONIAL SYSTEM--EARLY GRANTS OF POWER TO RULERS IN MEXICO, BY THE
    EMPEROR CHARLES V.--ABUSE OF IT.--COUNCIL OF THE
    INDIES--LAWS.--ROYAL AUDIENCES--CABILDOS--FUEROS.--RELATIVE
    POSITIONS OF SPANIARDS AND CREOLES.--SCHEME OF SPANISH COLONIAL
    TRADE.--RESTRICTIONS ON TRADE.--ALCABALA--TAXES--PAPAL
    BULLS.--BULLS DE CRUZADA--DE DEFUNTOS--OF COMPOSITION.--POWER OF
    THE CHURCH--ITS PROPERTY--INQUISITION.--THE ACTS OF THE
    INQUISITION--REPARTIMIENTOS.--INDIANS--AGRICULTURISTS--MINERS--
    MITA.--EXCUSES FOR MALADMINISTRATION.


Before we present the reader a brief sketch of the viceroyal government
of New Spain, it may, in no small degree, contribute to the elucidation
of this period if we review the Spanish colonial system that prevailed
from the conquest to the revolution which resulted in independence.

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Opening the text

History

Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican, Vol. 1 of 2: A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time.

Mayer, Brantz

Mexico -- Description and travel; Mexico -- History; Mexico -- Statistics

1st year.  | 14th year.  |  27th year. | 40th year.
              |             |             |
   1 Tochtli  |  1 Acatl    |  1 Tecpatl  |  1 Calli
   2 Acatl    |  2 Tecpatl  |  2 Calli    |  2 Tochtli
   3 Tecpatl  |  3 Calli    |  3 Tochtli  |  3 Acatl
   4 Calli    |  4 Tochtli  |  4 Acatl    |  4 Tecpatl
   5 Tochtli  |  5 Acatl    |  5 Tecpatl  |  5 Calli
   6 Acatl    |  6 Tecpatl  |  6 Calli    |  6 Tochtli
   7 Tecpatl  |  7 Calli    |  7 Tochtli  |  7 Acatl
   8 Calli    |  8 Tochtli  |  8 Acatl    |  8 Tecpatl
   9 Tochtli  |  9 Acatl    |  9 Tecpatl  |  9 Calli
  10 Acatl    | 10 Tecpatl  | 10 Calli    | 10 Tochtli
  11 Tecpatl  | 11 Calli    | 11 Tochtli  | 11 Acatl
  12 Calli    | 12 Tochtli  | 12 Acatl    | 12 Tecpatl
  13 Tochtli  | 13 Acatl    | 13 Tecpatl  | 13 Calli

  See 1st vol. Ethnol. Trans. ut antea page 63.

[Footnote 13: No doubt tortillias, or maize cakes--still the staff of
life with all the Indians and, indeed, a favorite and daily food of
all classes of Mexicans.]

[Footnote 14: Bernal Diaz Del Castillo's Hist. Conq. Mexico.]

[Footnote 15: Prescott, vol. 1, p. 35.]

[Footnote 16: Prescott, vol. 1, p. 39, and compare Lorenzana's edition
of Cortéz's letters.]

[Footnote 17: See Ethnological Trans. 1 vol., p. 96, and Am. Journal of
Science and Arts, second series, vol. vii., p. 155. March No. for 1849.]

[Footnote 18: See Trans. Amer. Ethnol. Soc'y., vol. 1, p. 94. We should
remark that the letters Q. Q., X. Z., P. P., S. Y., on the edge of the
stone, denote holes cut into it, in which it is asserted that gnomons
were placed whose shadows on the calendar converted it into a dial.]




  BOOK II.

  NEW SPAIN
  UNDER THE VICEROYAL GOVERNMENT.
  1530-1809.




BOOK II.




CHAPTER I.

INTRODUCTORY.

    COLONIAL SYSTEM--EARLY GRANTS OF POWER TO RULERS IN MEXICO, BY THE
    EMPEROR CHARLES V.--ABUSE OF IT.--COUNCIL OF THE
    INDIES--LAWS.--ROYAL AUDIENCES--CABILDOS--FUEROS.--RELATIVE
    POSITIONS OF SPANIARDS AND CREOLES.--SCHEME OF SPANISH COLONIAL
    TRADE.--RESTRICTIONS ON TRADE.--ALCABALA--TAXES--PAPAL
    BULLS.--BULLS DE CRUZADA--DE DEFUNTOS--OF COMPOSITION.--POWER OF
    THE CHURCH--ITS PROPERTY--INQUISITION.--THE ACTS OF THE
    INQUISITION--REPARTIMIENTOS.--INDIANS--AGRICULTURISTS--MINERS--
    MITA.--EXCUSES FOR MALADMINISTRATION.


Before we present the reader a brief sketch of the viceroyal government
of New Spain, it may, in no small degree, contribute to the elucidation
of this period if we review the Spanish colonial system that prevailed
from the conquest to the revolution which resulted in independence.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican, Vol. 1 of 2: A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time.

Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican, Vol. 1 of 2: A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time.

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