El Dr Y Maestro Don Carlos Lopez Torrija Abogado De La Real Audiencia De Mexico De Esta Nueva Espana

by Carlos Mexico Indigenous Labor Lopez Torrija

$2,800 · Offered by Liber Antiquus

Very fine and untrimmed. Light horizontal fold. This 17th c. Mexican edict restricted Spanish landowners from leasing, donating, or otherwise transferring their tithe-bearing estates to Indigenous peoples “terrazgueros” or other exempt persons in an effort to avoid paying tithes to the Church. Spanish landowners were transferring property to shift or avoid their tithe liability in schemes that defrauded the church of their lawful revenue. The

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