Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . reme that in the building ofthe temple of Los Desamparados, near the bridgeof Lima, he daily carried building material as acommon laborer, and often served as clerk or sacris-tan at mass with Father Castillo. In the earlypart of 1670 the news arrived at Lima that thefamous English privateer Morgan had taken Cha-gres, captured Panama, and sacked the city. Theviceroy fitted out an expedition of eighteen vesselswith nearly 3,000 troops, but it arrived in Panamatoo late, as Morgan had evacuated the city. Laterin the same year renewed rumors of a foreig
Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . reme that in the building ofthe temple of Los Desamparados, near the bridgeof Lima, he daily carried building material as acommon laborer, and often served as clerk or sacris-tan at mass with Father Castillo. In the earlypart of 1670 the news arrived at Lima that thefamous English privateer Morgan had taken Cha-gres, captured Panama, and sacked the city. Theviceroy fitted out an expedition of eighteen vesselswith nearly 3,000 troops, but it arrived in Panamatoo late, as Morgan had evacuated the city. Laterin the same year renewed rumors of a foreign inva-sion kept the country alarmed, and the viceroyordered all the Pacific ports to be put in a thoroughstate of defence. The new church of Los Desampa-rados was finished and opened 30 Jan., 1672, andthis, as well as the canonization of St. Rosa towardthe end of the year, was celebrated by the viceroywith great splendor, but in the last he contracteda sickness of which he died in a few days. FFRNANDFZ DE CORDOVA fernAndfz df pifdrahIta 4^7. FERNANDEZ 1)E CORDOVA, DlegO, mar-quis of Ghiadalcazar and count of Posadas, viceroy of Mexico and Peru, b. in the last quarter of the16th century (place unknown); d. in Ghiadalcazarabout 1650. He was a descendant of G-onzalo deCordova, and was educated for a military career. In his youth hefought valiantly inthe wars of Flan-ders, and in 1612was appointed vice-roy of Mexico. Dur-ing his administra-tion in 1613, the en-gineer Adrian Bootbegan the works forthe drainage of thevalley of Mexico, in1614 the city ofLerma was founded,and in 1616 the Te-pehuan Indians re-volted, killing theirmissionaries, butFernandez soon con-quered them. Dur-ing 1614 there wererumors of the ap-proach of a Dutchfleet in the Pacific, and Fernandez fortified theport of Acapulco. He also equipped three war-ships there, which, after the fears of war had beendispelled, he sent in March, 1615, on an exploringexpedition to the coast of California. In 1620 theaqueduct o
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