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

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

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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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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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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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Approximately twenty-five documents containing fiscal reports, receipts, etc., of the Inquisition of Lima, foliated 19-49.

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Instructions to transfer funds from a bankruptcy case to the University of Lima. Receipt on verso. Contains signatures.

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Registered copy (paginated 153) of a letter to the Lima inquisition from the Suprema, urging establishment of a tribunal in Buenos Aires. Receipt acknowledged in Los Reyes [Lima] 31 May 1637, six months after it was sent.

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Instructions to an inquisitorial commissioner at Pisco, Peru, regarding former prisoner Alvaro Mendez's demand for compensation in the matter of his seized books. Verso has followup document, noting lack of receipts. Contains signatures.

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Instructions to assign funds for the food and tobacco expenses of Manuel de Fonseca, held prisoner at the inquisition prison at Lima. Receipt on verso. Contains signatures.

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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Petition requesting payment of monies owing from a local official who has been abusing his power. The inquisitors' positive response follows, continuing on verso. Contains signatures.

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instructions for payment to a chaplaincy founded by a former inquisitorial officer in Peru. Receipt on verso. Contains signatures.

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Instructions to pay a salary for a consulting lawyer in a bankruptcy case. Top of folio is missing. Contains signatures.