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Instructions to pay for food expenses in the Lima inquisitorial prison. Receipt on verso. Contains signatures.

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Description of the public Auto de Fe celebrated in Valladolid on May 21 1559. Fourteen heretics were condemned to death, including a Dr. Cazalla, el Marqués de Poza, three women, and others. This Auto de Fe is significant as it brought about the end of the Erasmistas group in Spain. Contemporary account, apparently taken from a larger register or compilation as evident from pagination. Copy may be in a later hand.

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Letter from the marquis to Don Miguel Perez de Olivan y Vazquez, an inquisitor, thanking him for assistance in a legal case ("pleyto").

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The original declaration is dated 1745; this is a later copy of the late 18th or 19th century.

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Instructions to pay for medicines provided to poor prisoners in the Lima inquisitorial prison. Receipt on verso. Contains signatures.

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Instructions to pay salaries for three leading officers of the Lima inquisition. Multiple receipts on verso. Contains signatures.

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Collection of legal documents concerning property confiscated by the inquisition. Also later transaction involving same property.

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Concluding fragment of a larger text, concerning a royal financial assessment. Contains signature.

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Unadorned certificate naming captain Manuel de Castro, governor of Panteleria island, a teniente de capitan of the inquisition. Contains signatures and wax seal.

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Instructions from inquisitors to deduct funds from the confiscated property of Martín Morano Ossorio to pay for the costs of his imprisonment by the Lima inquisition. A receipt for these funds on the verso is dated 1638. Contains signatures.

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Collection of printed and manuscript documents regarding Antonio Benito and his status in the inquisition's Santa Hermandad confraternity. The Hermandad's centuries-old role in the suppression of gypsies and bandits noted, along with more recent struggles against the French invaders. Benito's qualities and blood purity (limpieza) are noted, for which he is named comisario quadrillero of the Hermandad. Contains signatures and wax seal.

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Ornate certificate with hand-colored border decoration, naming Garcia de la Fuente a comissary of the inquisition. Contains signatures; wax seal is missing. Certified four years later in another hand (at bottom). Contains signatures.

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Notice of death penalty, addressed to an unnamed prisoner with final offer of reconciliation. Contains signature and wax seal.

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Document notes receipt of orders from inquisitor general (dated Madrid 1700) appointing Luis Maldonado, Order of Santiago, notary for the Valladolid inquisition. Contains signature of inquisitorial secretary Cana and wax seal.

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Certificate naming Luis Maldonado a Notario del Secreto of the inquisition. Contains signatures and wax seal.

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Receipt for partial payment of salary to an inquisition secretary of the Lima tribunal. Contains signature.

Scope and Contents Instructions to Francisco Favia Mancareñas, executor of the will of Doña María Jaguada, to pay one hundred and eighty pesos to Padre Maestro Fray Juan Martín Maldonado, sacristan of the convent of San Agustín in La Plata, mostly to defray the cost of reciting masses, as requested in her will. Dated Los Reyes, 23rd August 1656. Signed by Doctor Don Luis de Betanzos y Figueroas, Inquisitor of the Lima tribunal, 1642-1659; Licenciate Diego García Martinez Cabezas, Inquisitor at Lima, 1658;...

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Denunciation of Fr. Josef, with testimony of colleagues concerning various improprieties at mass, as well as illicit use of chocolate, women, and pornographic images. Single document with signatures of Ramón Pérez and Isidorio Carranza as well as notary Francisco Uraga.

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The properties were apparently used as inquisitorial prisons. Summary in eighteenth century hand given on first folio.

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Collection of documents relating to Charles III's conflict with and eventual exile of inquisitor-general Manuel Quintano Bonifaz from Madrid in 1761. Contains table of contents.

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Fragment of a cartulary. Contains copy of a 1779 document naming Joseph Romero Dias Cañete a familiar of th einquisition. Contains signature of Pablo Manuel de Simancas. Contains signatures.

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Certificate with ornate colored design at top, naming Agustin Ponce de Leon a familiar of the inquisition. Contains signatures and wax seal. Certified three months later (at bottom); note on verso. Contains signatures and wax seal.

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Ornate certificate with hand-colored border illustrations, naming Francisco Martin Boça a familiar of the inquisition. Contains signatures (Licenciado Paramo et al.). Contains signatures.

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Certificate naming Joseph Antonio de la Torre Carbonera a familiar of the inquisition. Contains signatures and wax seal.

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Letter describing in great detail the construction of stage and seating arrangements for royal events in Madrid. These were constructed in the same manner as used for inquisitorial autos de fe; Marcolario was in charge of arrangements for the auto of 1781.

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Copy of a document first published in Puerto Principe [Port-au-Prince?], 1815. Family history of condemnation by the Inquisition was one of many aspects taken under consideration, as was history of menial labor and blood purity (limpieza).

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In the hand of some inquisitor.

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Two related documents: the first acknowledges receipt of documents, some dating as back as 1705, from Madrid naming various persons (including Antonio Maldonado) to offices in the Peruvian tribunal (1711). The second is a notice from Madrid naming Francisco Matienzo to an inquisitorial post in Lima. His blood purity (limpieza) is mentioned (1765). Contains signatures and wax seal.

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Notes on inquisition and church and state affairs during the War of Spanish Succession, remarking in particular on the inquisition's support for Philip V, its call for denunciations of Cralist priests, and the dubious legality of same. The document was been copied in to a larger cartulary in a contemporary hand, foliated 333-343 (with one unfoliated sheet at end).

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Notes on inquisition and church and state affairs during the War of Spanish Succession. The document has been copied into a larger cartulary in a contemporary hand, foliated 357-359 (with one blank folio at end).