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Manuscript/Mixed Material Hans Peter Kraus Collection: Copy of a royal cedula to the royal treasury officials of New Spain

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Title

  • Hans Peter Kraus Collection: Copy of a royal cedula to the royal treasury officials of New Spain

Names

  • The King [Philip II of Spain]

Created / Published

  • Mentrico [Toledo], May 21, 1577

Headings

  • -  Latin America--History
  • -  New Spain--Charters, grants, privileges
  • -  Manuscripts

Genre

  • Manuscripts

Notes

  • -  The King had received a complaint from Archbishop Pedro Moya de Contreras that he had not been paid for the period during which he served as inquisitor of Mexico (May 1-October 17, 1574). The matter had been appealed to the Council of the Indies which had decided to issue the present cedula, commanding the archbishop to be paid for the time that he served as inquisitor up until he began to receive the income of the archbishopric. Treasury officials are ordered to pay him from funds set aside for the salaries of the inquisitors. A marginal notation to the left of the text says "This is what the Viceroy has claimed against me in order not to pay me what is owed to me and to collect what has been paid to me..." It is apparently an annotation of the archbishop.

Medium

  • 1 leaf

Source Collection

  • Hans Peter Kraus collection of Spanish American documents, 1433-1877

Repository

  • Manuscript Division

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Online Format

  • pdf
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