(PERU) Para que Apremien Los Espanoles Baldios Mestizos Mula

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AN ORDER FROM THE INQUISITION (PERU.) Para que Apremien Los Espanoles, Baldios, Mestizos Mulatos, Negros, y Cambahijos se alquilen y sirven. Official "Cedula" or decree ordering all Spaniards, Negroes, Mulattoes, Quadroons and Octaroons who are not otherwise employed to report for work. Bi-folium folded to form four 4to pages, expertly conserved with some archival paper repairs to page edges and a couple of words in the text, thoroughly readable and understandable. Two large rubricated capitals, various type fonts. Signed in print by Don Luis de Velasco, by order of the Viceroy, Don Alonso Fernandez de Cordova. Several manuscript notes follow the printed text; three are faint but legible, one dated January 26, 1604. Lima: [Antonio Ricardo], 14 November 1603

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An example of the power of the Inquisition, this order states that there are a great many people enjoying the fruits of the labor of others, and doing nothing whatsoever to contribute to the general good of the city of Lima; and that they have a few days after the publication of this order to comply. Those in defiance of the order will be compelled "with all the rigor of physical as well as monetary punishments." The Inquisition regarded vagrancy as a sin. Medina I, #27. One of 12 ordinances issued on the same day by Luis de Velasco and the only one to mention people of color.