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de Sarria, over the Province of Tula ; and after the Mexican Chan- 

 cery had adjudged it to him as sole heir and successor to this State, 

 the Supreme Council of the Indies, reviewing the case, adjudged him 

 this Province of Tula and its villages on April i6, 1561. 



413. The same fact is certified by the will made by this Prince Don 

 Pedro Motezuma when he was lying at death's door in the house of 

 his abode which was next the Carmelite convent of Nuestra Senora 

 del Carmen, where the church of San Sebastian is now, on Septem- 

 ber 8, 1570, in which he declared himself the sole son and heir of 

 Motezuma and of Dona Maria Miaguasuchil, Lady of the Province 

 of Tula, which she had brought as dowry to Emperor Motezuma, 

 when he married her. 



414. It is Hkewise certified by the chapel and burial place which 

 this Prince Don Pedro Motezuma made for himself in the splendid 

 convent of Santo Domingo in Mexico City, in the main body of the 

 church, with the following inscription upon it: "Chapel and burial 

 place of Don Pedro Motezuma, prince, heir of the great Motezuma, 

 lord of the greater part of this New Spain." Prince Don Pedro Mote- 

 zuma was married to Dona Catalina Miaguasuchil of the same family 

 and royal blood of Tula and of Mexico. They had a son, Don Diego 

 Luis Motezuma, who, as legitimate and sole successor of his father, 

 after his death inherited and succeeded to the estate and entail. He 

 came to Spain at His Majesty's command and in the city of Guadix 

 married Dona Francisca de la Cueva y Bocanegra. They had legiti- 

 mate children of whom the eldest was Don Pedro Tesifon Motezuma, 

 Knight of the Order of Santiago, who succeeded him in the State 

 of Tulan and in the entailed primogeniture established by the above- 

 mentioned prince his grandfather, as is well known and certified by 

 royal executive warrants and the will drawn up by this Prince Don 

 Pedro his grandfather, and by the statement which this Don Pedro 

 Motezuma and his brothers presented to His Majesty King Philip HI 

 of glorious memory, attested in Madrid before Jeronlmo Fernandez, 

 notary, on January 26, 1612, regarding the lawsuit and the rights 

 belonging to them in the realms and States of New Spain, which 

 had been those of their great-grandfather, the Emperor Motezuma. 



415. This Don Diego Luis Motezuma had likewise by his lawful 

 wife. Dona Francisca de la Cueva y Bocanegra, these children : Don 

 Francisco Antonio Motezuma, who is Gentilhombre de Boca (Royal 

 Steward) of His Majesty; Don Felipe Marcelino Motezuma, Knight 

 of the Order of Santiago ; Don Cristobal Motezuma, who died in the 

 flower of his age ; and Doiia Maria Motezuma. To them all His 

 Majesty granted the favor of 1,500 ducats' income, to each of them, 



