This week we begin our 3 parter on the life of William Lamport (AKA Gullién de Lampart, AKA Gullién Lombardo), an Irish Patriot and Mexican National Hero. But before we talk about Guillién de Lampart, The Precursor to Mexican Independence, we first have to talk about William Lamport, the Irish Rebel and North Sea Pirate, before then talking about Gullién Lombardo, the Spanish war hero, court poet, catholic theologian and secret agent. That is just his backstory. Using William's early life as a framework we examine the political and social situation in the Viceroyalty of New Spain through the early 17th century. While in New Spain we find out who the crypto-Jews were and how the Spanish Inquisition drove them to the shores of Mexico, before then heading south to meet Gaspar Yanga, an African Royal and self-liberated slave who, from his base in the mountains of Veracruz, led a 39 year war of liberation against Spain's colonial plantation owners. We finally finish in 1642 with the arrival in New Spain of a new Viceroy and Inquisitor General whose mission is to restore profitability to the ailing colony. In their entourage comes William, with his own secret orders, given to him by the King of Spain himself.

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