Mar 26, 2009 - Sale 2174

Sale 2174 - Lot 365

Price Realized: $ 570
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(MEXICO.) Philip IV, King of Spain. Letter to the Bishop of Guadalajara, concerning the disposition of the goods of "los Indios." One legal-sized page; dampstaining and slight separations along folds, small ink hole affecting one word. Madrid, 20 June 1628

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Letter Signed as "Yo el Rey," probably secretarial. Concerns the estates of Indians who die without leaving a will. The bishop at that time was Francisco de Rivera y Pareja.