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Undated blank form banning import of all unlicensed books.

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Extended text for Edict of Faith, requiring denunciations of various heresies; very extensive, mentioning specific Mexican practices, such as peyote use. Space for date left blank.

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Edict banning certain devotional images.

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Edict banning devotional objects, images, texts, etc. connected to Luisa de la Ascensión.

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Publication of a 1792 notice authorizing consumption of meat during Lent, in accordance with a papal indult of 1791. Alms are to be collected for the poor in exchange for this privilege; the rate of payment is divided into four classes. Most Indians, Blacks, Meztizos, day laborers and mendicant friars, etc., are allowed to give prayers in lieu of monetary payment. Contains wax seal and notarial marks.

Scope and Contents Documents relating to Inquisition and law in the New world, ranging from 1717-1797; some apparently copied in the Secretaría de la Cámara de Gobierno, Mexico, for the benefit of an archbishop by Licenciado antonio Dies de Medina, Secretary. 1. Thirty-four articles on Inquisition procedure (Madrid 1747). 2. Royal order to respect the Inquisition (1763). 3. Royal brief for Viceroys (Aranjuez 1744). 4. Royal brief on legal procedure (Aranjuez 1740). 5. Royal brief (Aranjuez 1763). 6. Royal...

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Translation of the papl bull "Si de protegendis," asserting papal protection of inquisitorial witnesses and recognition of rights pertaining to familiars and officials. Issued in Mexico on the orders of Bartholome de Ledesma, with blank spaces for names of local authorities; rare example of early Mexican printing.

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Trial notes of secretary Diego de Mayorca of a trial against Ana, an "yndia," for the crime of bigamy. Contains signature of inquisitor bishop Fray Juan de Zumárraga of Mexico. Contains signatures.

Scope and Contents The collection documents both the personal life and the professional activities of Sydney Hobart Ball. It includes more than 1,600 of Ball's letters, mainly written to family members while on mining trips around the world, as well as over 1,000 photos taken by Ball during these trips. There are also reports, articles and notes written by Ball on mining, as well as maps of places he visited. Also present in the collection is correspondence belonging to Ball's wife Mary, and to his daughters...