1719 W. Wood (ed. 2) 281 The Assiento Contract has excluded..Great Britain from Trading to New Spain.
1777 W. Robertson iii. (1851) I. 231 Grijalva..called it New Spain, the name which still distinguishes this extensive and opulent province of the Spanish empire in America.
1843 W. H. Prescott III. vii. ii. 230 Vera Cruz..has remained ever since the great commercial capital of New Spain.
1845 XIII. 716/2 Of these disturbances, that of New Spain seemed to threaten the worst consequences.