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CLOSE OF THE CENTURY.

was at Patzcuaro, which in 1554 had been made the leading city by the transfer of the episcopal seat from Tzintzuntzan.^[1] This blow at the ancient seat of royalty in favor of an Indian suburb, as Patzcuaro was classed, created no little remonstrance, appeals being sent also to the king. Despite the continued clamor, no attention was accorded till Bishop Morales proposed a solution by recommending the transfer of political and ecclesiastical government to the growing city of Valladolid. This took effect in 1580 or 1582, although not without further protests.^[2] The place had been founded in 1541 by Viceroy Mendoza, when on the way to the Mixton war, and was occasionally termed Guayangareo, after the valley in which it lay^[3]

Tzintzuntzan appears to have suffered less from this

Arms of the City of Valladolid.

ment in Orozco y Berra, Hist. Ant., ii. 207, speaks of Constantino as a son of Antonio. See also Soc. Mex. Geog., Boletin, ix. 133-4.

↑ The royal order to this effect had been obtained by Quiroga while in Spain, the papal approval being dated July 8, 1550. Nueva Esp., Breve Res., MS., ii. 250-74. Beaumont gives a native painting which I reproduce on p. 773, recording the transfer. Crón. Mich., MS., app. A description of the arms of Patzcuaro is given in the same book.
↑ Florencia states that but for the Jesuits the Indians would have forcibly resisted the transfer. They were appeased by the grant of a venerated bell. Hist. Prov. Jesus, 225-7. The protest of Tzintzuntzan appears in Mich. Carta, in Icazbalceta, Col. Doc., ii. 244-7; Alegre, Hist. Comp. Jesus, ii. 128-9; Mich., Prov. S. Nicolás, 42. The objection to Patzcuaro was that the centre of business had moved away from its district, and that it suffered from heavy rains in summer. Villa Señor, Theatro, ii. 8. It had at this time 100 Spanish households, two convents, and a Jesuit college.
↑ Cavo, Tres Siglos, i. 139. According to Tello, it received a coat of arms in 1563. With the transfer it received great impulse, and a. costly cathedral added to its attractions. Beaumont, Crón. Mich., iv. 450, 460: v. 548. The coat of arms given above is a fac-simile from Id., MS., app.; Mex. Col. Leyes, i., p. xlvii.; Romero, in Soc. Mex. Geog., Boletin, viii. 540.

[1] The royal order to this effect had been obtained by Quiroga while in Spain, the papal approval being dated July 8, 1550. Nueva Esp., Breve Res., MS., ii. 250-74. Beaumont gives a native painting which I reproduce on p. 773, recording the transfer. Crón. Mich., MS., app. A description of the arms of Patzcuaro is given in the same book.

[2] Florencia states that but for the Jesuits the Indians would have forcibly resisted the transfer. They were appeased by the grant of a venerated bell. Hist. Prov. Jesus, 225-7. The protest of Tzintzuntzan appears in Mich. Carta, in Icazbalceta, Col. Doc., ii. 244-7; Alegre, Hist. Comp. Jesus, ii. 128-9; Mich., Prov. S. Nicolás, 42. The objection to Patzcuaro was that the centre of business had moved away from its district, and that it suffered from heavy rains in summer. Villa Señor, Theatro, ii. 8. It had at this time 100 Spanish households, two convents, and a Jesuit college.

[3] Cavo, Tres Siglos, i. 139. According to Tello, it received a coat of arms in 1563. With the transfer it received great impulse, and a. costly cathedral added to its attractions. Beaumont, Crón. Mich., iv. 450, 460: v. 548. The coat of arms given above is a fac-simile from Id., MS., app.; Mex. Col. Leyes, i., p. xlvii.; Romero, in Soc. Mex. Geog., Boletin, viii. 540.

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