back to text New Spain: (English) The name that Spain gave to her northern ... divided into viceroyalties. back to text Viceroy: (English) The head of the largest administrative district (a ...

where the viceroy was killed when he attempted to enforce them ... and the more centralizing "regalists" who wanted to preserve royal power in Spain's new Empire. Eventually the encomienda was allowed ...

I gave a detailed account of this expedition, which the viceroy of New Spain ordered me to undertake in Your Majesty's name to this country which was discovered by Friar Marcos de Niza ...