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Manuscript/Mixed Material Hans Peter Kraus Collection: La Provincia de Iucatan, i los Decendientes de sus Cõquistadores, Pacificadores, i antiguas pobladores, en el pleito con el senor Fiscalpleito con el senor Fiscal

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Title

  • Hans Peter Kraus Collection: La Provincia de Iucatan, i los Decendientes de sus Cõquistadores, Pacificadores, i antiguas pobladores, en el pleito con el senor Fiscalpleito con el senor Fiscal

Names

  • Juan Bueno de Rojas

Created / Published

  • Madrid?, ca. 1631

Headings

  • -  Law--New Spain
  • -  Taxation, State
  • -  Manuscripts

Genre

  • Manuscripts

Notes

  • -  This is a signed, printed document in which the lawyer for the Province of Yucatán presents his clients' case against the royal attorney. The question at issue was that on June 28, 1630, the Council of the Indies had issued a decree affecting the encomiendas of the province. A cedula of September 22, 1565, renewed in 1573 and 1619, had permitted that as the encomiendas became vacant, their income should be put into the royal treasury of the province up to a total of 25,000 pesos annually to pay the salaries of the bishops and the officials of the government and other expenses. Now the Crown wanted to place new taxes on the revenues of the encomiendas. In arguing against this, the lawyer summarized the services of the encomenderos in protecting the province against French and English corsairs and Indian rebellions. It is signed by Licenciado Juan Bueno de Rojas at the end. Unfortunately the woodcut vignette at the top of the first page has been cut out, leaving a lacuna on the verso in the middle of the summary of the Crown's proposed innovations.

Medium

  • 15 leaves

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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Juan Bueno De Rojas. Hans Peter Kraus Collection: La Provincia de Iucatan, i los Decendientes de sus Cõquistadores, Pacificadores, i antiguas pobladores, en el pleito con el senor Fiscalpleito con el senor Fiscal. Madrid?, 1500. Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/mss31013-14700/.

APA citation style:

Juan Bueno De Rojas. (1500) Hans Peter Kraus Collection: La Provincia de Iucatan, i los Decendientes de sus Cõquistadores, Pacificadores, i antiguas pobladores, en el pleito con el senor Fiscalpleito con el senor Fiscal. Madrid?. [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/mss31013-14700/.

MLA citation style:

Juan Bueno De Rojas. Hans Peter Kraus Collection: La Provincia de Iucatan, i los Decendientes de sus Cõquistadores, Pacificadores, i antiguas pobladores, en el pleito con el senor Fiscalpleito con el senor Fiscal. Madrid?, 1500. Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/mss31013-14700/>.