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Show SPANISH RULE, 1700 TO 1822 421 against the Apaches but was taken suddenly ill in the Sandia mountains and died at Bernalillo on the 4th of April. His remains were taken to the capital and buried under the altar in the parish church.*?4 | Don Juan Paez Hurtado, an intimate friend of De Vargas and for whose arrest, several years previous, Cubero had issued an order, upon a charge of embezzlement of DON JUAN PAEZ HURTADO funds belonging to the colonists, now lieuGOVERNOR ADINTERIM _tenant-general of the province, served as acting governor until the 10th day of March, 1705. On the date last mentioned, Don Francisco Cuervo y Valdés assumed the office of governor ad interim, having been appointed by the viceroy, Don Francisco FerDON FRANCISCO CUERVO Y VALDES AP- nandez*?> de la Cueva EnPOINTED GOVERNOR BY THE VICEROY riquez, Duke of Alburquerque. The new governor found the affairs of the province in a very bad state. The Apaches and Navajés were constantly raiding the settlers and the friendly pueblos. The Moquis still refused to receive the missionaries, some of the Zuiiis were on their pefiol, and the soldiers stood in great need of clothing only and supplies. The governor made frequent appeals for aid, but asmall supply of arms and ammunition was sent to New Mexico for his use. The viceroy notified his royal master of the fact of his having 3 appointed Cuervo to the governorship by a letter written the old parish church was begun, under the supervision 424 Upon the site of Mexico, the conof Archbishop J. B. Lamy, soon after his coming to New struction of the present cathedral at Santa Fé. This building has never been Every completed. year a procession is which an image of had, at made a vow that if he was suc- De Vargas Mary, claimed by some to be the same one which Virgin the into the battle fought by him at Santa Fé at the time of the re-conquest, Carried Cathedral to the Chapel of 's carried at the head of the procession, from the Rosario. On the eve of the battle De Vargas be carried from the cessful in his battle with the Indians this image should on the pattlefield later on, and erected he which chapel the to church Pare : : said that this vow has been kept every year since. *6 The Duke of Alburquerque was the 34th viceroy of New Spain; he was the day of “alge of his title to hold the office; he arrived at Vera Cruz on the 6th the twenty-seventh of oe 1702, and assumed control of the government on He enjoyed the confidence of Felipe V, and continued in the ollowing month. Don Fernando . as lceroyalty until the year 1710, when he was succeeded ofby Valdefuentes. leneastre Norofia y Silva, duke of Linares and marqués |
