[Spanish Indies]:

$1,750 · Offered by William Reese Company

EL REY. POR QUANTO CON MOTIBO DE MI EXALTACION AL TRONO, TUVE POR BIEN, DE CONCEDER INDULTO GENERAL À LOS REOS QUE SE HALLASEN EN LAS CARCELES DE LA CORTE, Y VILLA DE MADRID, Y DEMÀS DEL REYNO À ... A rare detailed royal cedula issued by Charles III, King of Spain, ordering a general pardon of accused individuals to be enacted throughout the Spanish Indies. Citing earlier royal proclamations issued previously by Charles III concerning clemency for prisoners, this cedula reprints texts of decrees from January and February 1760. While most prisoners were to receive pardons, a long list of exceptions, based on the January 28 cedula, is provided. These included those accused of secular and religious treason, killing a priest, counterfeiting money, arson, blasphemy, sodomy, robbery, falsehoods, and duelling. Numerous other details regarding the earlier clemencies are also provided. The present royal amnesty was to be distributed to the viceroys, presidents, audiencias, governors, and other judges throughout the Indies in order that this resolution by properly executed.This copy, accomplished in manuscript at Buen Retiro on Dec. 28, 1770, is signed by Juan Manuel Crespo with the additional annotation: "Yo El Rey. Por mandado del Rey Nuestro Señor." A manuscript inscription on the blank verso of the final printed page, dated Feb. 27, 1762, confirms that the decree had been reviewed two days earlier by the President and other high officials in Santiago de Chile. A manuscript note in

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