Marcos de Torres y Rueda

Only a few months later, on July 10, 1647, King Philip IV of Spain named him viceroy and president of the Audiencia.

He arrived in Mexico City and took up his new offices on May 13, 1648, leaving the governance of the Diocese of Yucatan in the hands of the chapter of the cathedral.

The outgoing viceroy, García Sarmiento de Sotomayor, 2nd Count of Salvatierra, did not wish to surrender his office or the royal treasury, and direct intervention from the crown was needed.

Among the things he was accused of were using the "Mexican language" and speaking ill of the Holy Office of the Inquisition, the king and the pope.

[citation needed] Pedro Mercado was accused of giving preferential seating to Jews at a comedy he produced.

Torres wrote the king that "he was in entire agreement with the bishop of Puebla [Palafox] over how New Spain should be governed.

Torres himself started pursuing practices that brought wealth to himself, including deals with judges and merchants allowing him amass a huge fortune.