Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . t the frequent meetingof slaves. Returning to England in 1683, in vio-lation of his orders, he was arrested immediatelyon hi< arrival : and. as he had corruptly receivednts from the assembly, a jury of Middlesexfound thai he had forfeited his commission. Hewas shrewd and capable, but enriched himself bybribery and extortion. His estates, consisting ofland-on the Isle of Wight, manors in Kent, andthe tract of the Northern Neck in Virginia, con-taining acres, descended through hisdaughter,Cathebine,who married Baron Fairfax,to her son, L
Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . t the frequent meetingof slaves. Returning to England in 1683, in vio-lation of his orders, he was arrested immediatelyon hi< arrival : and. as he had corruptly receivednts from the assembly, a jury of Middlesexfound thai he had forfeited his commission. Hewas shrewd and capable, but enriched himself bybribery and extortion. His estates, consisting ofland-on the Isle of Wight, manors in Kent, andthe tract of the Northern Neck in Virginia, con-taining acres, descended through hisdaughter,Cathebine,who married Baron Fairfax,to her son, Lord Fairfax, patron of Washington. ( DLTZHAYOTL (cooltz-ay-yot-l), Aztec pod,b. in 1370; d. in L431. He was the son of theTlaxcaltec prince Xentiple. His first work was aLong poem entitled Zempaxoehitl. The Countof Regla, as descendant and heir of Bernan Cortes,preserved the original, a translation of whichmade, by Peredo, who calls Pultzhayotl theAztec Virgil. His second work, Huitzilopoxtli,is considered superior to the first. Clavrjero, a. profound scholar, finds in it many features resem-bling those of Dantes Divine Comedy. Cultz-havotl was the first that gave a vigorous characterand form to tragedy in Mexico, and had the war-dances replaced by dialogues and tableaux. TheAztec king and nobility attended the performanceot his tragedy, ; but the noblemen thoughtthe play was a satire on religion, and caused thepoet to be imprisoned and subsequently buriedalive, to the neck, in a field near to Netzahualcoyotl, a lady of the courtsaved him, leaving in plafce of the victim a Toltecprisoner. He wandered about until the priests ofthe Mitla temple offered him protection. Whilein retirement he wrote a powerful satire, called Cuitlacochitl, against the Moctezuma dynastyand the corrupt nobility. Fearing that the Mitlapriests might assassinate him, he took refuge inCholula, where the people made his arrival the oc-casion for a magnificent display. But he so
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