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there, has obliged the Spanifh monarchs to difpenfe withtheir own regulations in feveral inftances ; and to permittheir viceroys to compel the people of more remote pro-vinces to refort to thofe mines. Efcalona, Gazophyl.Peruv. lib. i c. 1 6. But in juftice to them it Ihould beobferved, that they have been ftudious to alleviate thisoppreffion as much as poffible , by enjoining the viceroysto employ every method, in order to induce the Indiansto fettle in fome part of the country adjacent to the mines.Id. Ibid.

NOTE LVII. p. 277.

^JL'oROUEMADA, after a long enumeration, which hasthe appearance of accuracy, concludes the number ofmonafteries in New Spain to be four hundred. Mon. Ind.lib. xix. c. 52. The number of monafteries in the cityof Mexico alone was, in the year 174?, fifty-five. Villa-

Segnor. Theat. Amer. i. 54. Ulloa reckons up forty

convents in Lima ; and mentioning thofe for nuns , he fays,that a fmall town might be peopled out of them, thenumber of perfons fhut up there is fo great. Voy. i. 429.Philip. III. in a letter to the viceroy of Peru , A. D. 1620,obferves , that the number of convents in Lima was fogreat, that they covered more ground than all the reft ofthe city. Solorz. lib. iii. c. 2;. n. 57. Lib. iii. c. 1 6.

Torquem. lib. xv. c. 3. The firft monaftery in New Spain

was founded A. D. 11525 , four years only after the conqueft.Torq. lib. xv. c. 16.

According to Gil Gonzalez Davila, the completeeftablifhment of the American church in all the Spanifhfetdements was , in the year 1649, 1 patriarch, 6 arch-bifhops, 52 hilltops, 346 prebends , 2 abbots, 5 royalchaplains, 840 convents. Theatro Ecclefiaftico de laslnd. Occident, vol. i. Pref. "When the order of Jefuitswas expelled from all the Spanifh dominions, the colleges,p-ofejfed houfes, and refidencies, which it pofTefted in the

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