CHAPTER VII. 

 1621 — 1624. 



MARQUES DE GELVES VICEROY HIS REFORMS NARRATIVE OF 



FATHER GAGE. GELVES FORESTALLS THE MARKET THE 



ARCHBISHOP EXCOMMUNICATES MEXIA, HIS AGENT. QUARREL 



BETWEEN GELVES AND THE ARCHBISHOP. VICEROY EXCOM- 

 MUNICATED. ARCHBISHOP AT GUADALUPE HE IS ARRESTED 



AT THE ALTAR SENT TO SPAIN. MEXIA THREATENED. 



MOB ATTACKS THE PALACE IT IS SACKED. VICEROY ES- 

 CAPES. RETRIBUTION. 



Don Diego Carillo Mendoza y Pimentel, 

 Count de Priego and Marques de Gelves, 

 XIV. Viceroy of New Spain. 



1621 — 1624. 



Upon the removal of the Marques of Guadalcazar, and until the 

 21st of September, 1621, the Audiencia again ruled in Mexico, 

 without any interruption however, upon this occasion, of the public 

 peace. The six months of the interregnum might, indeed, have 

 been altogether forgotten, in the history of the country, had not the 

 Audiencia been obliged to announce the reception of a royal cedula 

 from Philip IV., communicating the news of his father's death, and 

 commanding a national mourning for his memory. In September, 

 the new viceroy arrived in the capital, and immediately caused the 

 royal order to be carried into effect and allegiance to be sworn 

 solemnly to Philip IV. as king and lord of Old and New Spain. 1 



The Marques de Gelves was selected by the sovereign for the 

 reputation he bore in Spain as a lover of justice and order, — 

 qualities which would ensure his utility in a country whose quiet- 

 ness, during several of the last viceroyal reigns, had indicated 

 either a very good or a very bad government, which it was im- 

 possible for the king to examine personally. Accordingly Gelves 



1 " Como Rey y Senor de las Espafias, " says the authority. 



