CHAPTER XX.
VICEROYS FORTY-FOUR TO FORTY-SIX.
1760-1779.
Viceroy Marqués de Cruíllas — King Cárlos III. Proclaimed — War with Great Britain — Extensive and Costly Preparations against Possible Attacks — Visitador General José de Galvez — His Eminent Services in Mexico and Spain — Cruíllas' Relief and Harsh Treatment — Viceroy Marqués de Croix — He Supports Galvez — His Rule Approved — Promotion, Recall, and Future Career — Unjust Strictures — Viceroy Frey Antonio María Bucareli — General Measures of his Long Rule — His Death — Temporary Rule of the Audiencia — Fourth Ecclesiastical Council — Its Acts — Archbishop Francisco Antonio Lorenzana — His Course in Mexico and Spain — He is Made A Cardinal — Future Career and Death.
The successor of General Cagigal, and forty-fourth viceroy, was Joaquin Monserrat,[1] marqués de Cruíllas, a knight grand cross, claviger commander of Montroy and Burriana, and bailiff of Sueca in the order of Montesa,[2] a mariscal de campo[3] of the army, and lieutenant-colonel of the royal Spanish infantry guards. He brought out his wife, Doña María Josefa de Acuña,[4] a lady related to the highest nobility of
- ↑ His family names, as given at the head of his decrees, were Monserrat, Ciurana, Cruíllas, Crespí de Valldaura, Alfonso, Calatayud, Sans de la Llosa. Disposic. Varias, i. 21, iv. 1.
- ↑ A Spanish order of knighthood named after the convent of Santa María de Montesa, which was situated two leagues from the city of Játiva in the province of Valencia. It was founded with the sanction of Pope John XXII in 1537. Moreri and Miravel y Casadevante, Gran. Dicc., vii. 74.
- ↑ This was his military rank at the time of his appointment. Reales Cédulas, MS., ii. 237. His promotion to lieutenant-general was decreed soon after his departure for America. Rivera, Gob. Mex., i. 388. He certainly held the commission of a lieutenant-general during his rule in Mexico, and made it appear in his decrees.
- ↑ Her family names were: Acuña y Prado, Vazquez, Coronado, Henriquez, Luna y Portocarrero, Castro, Figueroa y Mendoza, Ronquillo y Briseño, Mascareñas, Alencastre y la Cueva. Rodriguez, Express, del Dolor., i.-xvi.
