Discurso Juridico, Historico-Politico, en Defensa de la Jurisdicion Real: Ilustracion de la Provision de Veinte de Febrero del Ano Passado de 1684

Juan Luis Lopez; Peru. Viceroy (1681-1689 : Navarra y Rocafull)

Impresso en Lima, 1684

[The Administration of 17th Century Peru: the Abuse of Indians by the Clergy] Folio.  Bound in contemporary vellum.  Good binding and cover. Minor foxing and marginal dampstaining, but a still an attractive copy.    Palau, 267; Sabin 41987.  

Melchor Linan y Cisneros was the Archbishop of Lima for thirty years and served as viceroy of Peru from 1678-1681.  He argued for ecclesiastical liberty against the attempts of his successor, Melchor de Navarra, Duke of Palata's attempts to curtail clergical abuses.  Some of the parish priests and friars were exacting oppressive church taxes against the indigenous population.  This book's author, Juan Luis Lopez, served as the Duke of Palata's secretary and attempts to defend the Duke of Palata's curbs on clergical abuses.   "The Archbishop of Lima, Melchor de Linan y Cisneros, had objected to a decree issued by the Viceroy of Peru, Melchor de Navarra y Rocalfull, Duke de la Palata, for the suppression of certain ecclesiastical abuses. The present publication was issued by order of the Viceroy in answer to the Archbishop's objections." - Maggs, SPANISH AMERICA AND THE GUIANAS, 1935.  Subtitle: "despachada por el govierno superior, y reducida a ordenanc̜a en el tom. 1. fol. 311. : sobre que en recibir los corregidores deste reyno informaciones secretas de oficio, o a instancia de parte, en orden a averiguar como observan los curas, y doctrineros las disposiciones canonicas, synodales, cedulas, y ordenancas de su magestad, que tratan de las obenciones que deben llevar a los indios a fin solo de dar cuenta con ellas a sus prelados, y al govierno superior destos reynos, paraque lo remedien, no se contraviene en cosa alguna a la immunidad de la iglesia."