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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Matías de la Mota Padilla (1688–1766)

Mota Padilla, Matías de la (mō’tä-pä-dēl’yä). A Mexican historian; born at Guadalajara, Oct. 6, 1688; died in 1766. He was a lawyer, and during the latter part of his life a priest. He wrote among other things ‘History of the Conquest of New Galicia’ (1870–71), a work of much importance.