Oct 10, 2013 - Sale 2324

Sale 2324 - Lot 408

Price Realized: $ 1,690
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
ABUSES AND ROBBERIES BY CLERICS (PERU.) Hurtado de Mendoza, Andrés. Manuscript ordinance, captioned "Para que los espanoles, ni clerigos." Document Signed by Hurtado as Viceroy and his secretary. 2 pages, 12 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches, on first leaf of a bifolium, with docketing on second leaf; deacidified, with extensive professional repairs and minimal loss of text. Cuzco, 20 January 1556/7
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Andrés Hurtado de Mendoza, Marques de Cañete (circa 1500-1561) was the Viceroy of Peru from 1555 until his death. He gave unusual attention to the welfare of the indigenous people, particularly the last remaining members of Incan royalty. Hurtado states that the principal "caciques" (local Incan leaders) have been annoyed and defrauded by Spaniards in the charge of clerics and religious orders. This ordinance forbids their doing any business publicly or secretly with the natives. Hurtado further orders that this edict be read aloud by the town crier, and that the guilty will be punished and the victims compensated.
It reads, in part: "Yo soy informado que los clerigos y religiosos espanoles que tienen los encomenderos de Yndios . . . que tienen encomendados los hermitanos y otras personas legais, que tienen a cargo la doctrina, hazen muchas molestias, vexaciones y robos de los caciques principales Yndios." On the second page is a short docketing paragraph in a distinctly different hand, signed by Juan Lopez de Ysturriaga.