Legends of the city of Mexico / collected by Thomas A. Janvier ; illustrated by Walter Appleton Clark.
- Thomas Allibone Janvier
- Date:
- 1910
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Legends of the city of Mexico / collected by Thomas A. Janvier ; illustrated by Walter Appleton Clark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![NOTE I LEGEND OF DON JUAN MANUEL Don Juan Manuel was a real person: who lived stately in a great house, still standing, in the street that in his time was called the Calle Nueva, and that since his time has borne his name; who certainly did murder one man—in that house, not in the street— at about, probably, eleven o’clock at night; and who certainly was found hanging dead on the gallows in front of the Cap ilia de la Espiracion, of an October morning in the year 1641, without any explanation ever being forthcorning of how he got there. What survive of the tangled curious facts on which the fancies of this legend rest have been collected by Senor Obregdn, and here are summarized. Don Juan Manuel de Solorzano, a native of Burgos, a man of rank and wealth, in the year 1623 came in the train of the Viceroy the Marques de Guadalcazar to Mexico; where for a long while he seems to have led a life prosperous and respectable. In the year 1636 he increased his fortune by making an excellent marriage —with Dona Mariana de Laguna, the daughter of a rich mine-owner of Zacatecas. His troubles had their beginning in an intimate friendship that he formed with the Viceroy (1635-1640) the Marques de Cadereita; a [ I4I ]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31349043_0189.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
