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Title: Mexico, its ancient and modern civilisation, history and political conditions, topography and natural resources, industries and general development;
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Enock, C. Reginald (Charles Reginald), 1868-1970
Subjects: Mexico
Publisher: London : Unwin
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ceroys, and viceroys fulminated banishment againstbishops : riotings and beheadings followed, and royalinterpositions were constantly necessary to uphold or.condemn the action of one or the other side. In 1629an appalling mundation of the City of Mexico tookplace, following a similar occurrence in 1622, due to thediscontinuance of the drainage works which had earlierbeen begun ; and it is stated that thirty thousand of thepoor inhabitants of the valley perished as a result. Twoyears later acute dissatisfaction began to arise at thegreat acquisition of wealth and power by the clergy, anda memorial sent to Philip IV. by the municipality ofMexico begged that no more religious institutions orcommunities might be established, asserting that morethan half the wealth of the country was in the hands ofthese, and that there were more than six thousand priests—most of them idle—in the country. From the middle to the close of the seventeenthcentury the social life of the people developed but
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MEXICO AND THE VICEROYS 105 slowly. The main events were the conspiracy of theIrishman Lampart to secure independence for thecountry, the dedication of the cathedral of Mexico,the founding of the town of Albuquerque in the terri-tory of New Mexico—to-day part of the United States,the enactment against the violation of private corre-spondence, the fortification of the ports on the Gulfcoast against the operations of sea-rovers—among themthe famous British buccaneer Morgan, the eruption ofPopocatepetl (1665), the sacking of the town of Campecheby British ships (1680), the insurrection and murdersby the Indians of Chihuahua and New Mexico, thepiratical exploit of Agramonte and his band, who dis-embarked at and looted the port of Vera Cruz, imprison-ing the greater part of the population in a church, theexploration of California, and the operations against theFrench and English settlers upon the Mexican Gulf coast.The last years of the century were disturbed by seriousrioting and tumu

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