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The Construction of Santa Fe De México

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

Fintan B. Warren O. F. M.
Fintan B. Warren O. F. M.*
Affiliation:
Academy of American Franciscan History, Washington, D. C.
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In the course of the residencia of the Second Audiencia of Mexico, Licenciado Vasco de Quiroga was charged with having overburdened the Indians of Mexico City with the work of constructing his hospital-town of Santa Fe near the city. The official charge (cargo XXVI), as formulated by Francisco de Loaysa, judge of residencia, has been published twice, together with some of the questions that Quiroga drew up for his witnesses in answer to the charge, the answers of the witnesses, and the final decision of the judge, which absolved Quiroga of any guilt in the matter. But the source of the charge, as well as Quiroga’s personal reply to it, have remained unpublished.

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The Americas , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , July 1964 , pp. 69 - 78
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Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 1964

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References

1 León, Nicolás and Quintana, José Miguel (ed.), Documentos inéditos referentes al llustrísimo Señor Don Vasco de Quiroga (México, 1940), pp. 40–84 Google Scholar. Spencer, Rafael Aguayo (ed.), Don Vasco de Quiroga: documentos (México, 1939), pp. 407–460 Google Scholar.

2 Actas de cabildo de la ciudad de México (50 vols.; México, 1889–1916), III, 41.

3 Residencia que se tomó a los Licenciados Juan Salmerón, Alonso Maldonado, Francisco Ceynos y Vasco de Quiroga, presidente y oidores que fueron de la Audiencia de México del tiempo que sirvieron sus oficios; por el Licenciado Francisco de Loaysa, oidor de aquella audiencia, 1535–1536 (hereinafter cited as RSA). AGI, Justicia, leg. 232, ff. 157–158, 158u-159v.

4 Ibid., ff. 194–197v.

5 This appears to be a Hispanization of tlatoani, the Nahuatl term for the members of the supreme council of the Aztecs, “composed of a member from each clan and exercising judicial and directive functions.” Vaillant, George C., The Aztecs of Mexico ([Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1956]), p. 121 Google Scholar.

6 RSA, ff. 60v-64v.

7 Cf. Actas de cabildo de la ciudad de Mexico, III, 98.

8 RSA, ff. 73v-77v.

9 This word is perhaps derived from the Nahuatl term, tlacatecuhtli, “chief of men,” which was the title of the supreme chief in Aztec Tenochtitlan. Cf. Vaillant, The Aztecs of Mexico, p. 121.