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the latter half of the sixteenth century, it will be remembered, the governors of Yucatan were constantly at variance with the church, and unseemly quarrels between the secular and ecclesiastical authorities were prevalent almost from the time that the custodian Villapando built at Mani the first convent founded in the Maya peninsula. On August 11, 1604, the marshal Cárlos de Luna y Arrellano took possession of the government, and although his reign lacked none of the usual strifes, as well with the city council as with the bishop and the secular and regular clergy, his qualities as an honest ruler and the progress which the province made during his administration were fully recognized. The strongest proof of his rectitude is that, although no failure of crops

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