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An Englishman and the Mexican Inqvisition, 1556-1560 : being an account of the voyage of Robert Tomson to New Spain, his trial for heresy in the city of Mexico and other contemporary historical documents / edited by G.R.G. Conway.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tomson, Robert, approximately 1533-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Inquisition--Mexico--Mexico City--Sources.
- Inquisition.
- Trials (Heresy).
- Mexico--Description and travel--16th century--Sources.
- Mexico.
- Mexico--Church history--16th century.
- Church history.
- Mexico City (Mexico)--History--Spanish colony, 1540-1810--Sources.
- Mexico City (Mexico).
- Trials (Heresy)--Mexico--Mexico City--Sources.
- Mexico--Mexico City.
- Genre:
- Sources.
- Physical Description:
- xxxviii, 167 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, xiv leaves of plates : illustrations, map, plans, facsimiles ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Englishman and the Mexican Inquisition, 1556-1560
- Place of Publication:
- Mexico City : Privately printed in the city of Mexico, 1927.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The voyage of Robert Tomson, marchant, into Nova Hispania in the yeere 1555, from Hakluyt's Voyages, 1589
- Inquisitorial proceedings in Mexico city against Robert Tomson, 1559-1560
- Mexico City in 1560, by Francisco Cervantes de Salazar; chapters xxiv. and xxv., book iv. of the Crónica de la Nueva España
- Notes to the voyage of Robert Tomson
- Notes to the Insquisitorial proceedings against Robert Tomson
- Appendix no. I: Spanish transcript of the process of Robert Tomson
- Appendix no. II: Original letter of Leonard Chilton to Henry Hawks, dated 5th July, 1567
- Appendix no. III: List of original documents relating to the Englishmen who were condemned by the Mexican Inquisition, 1559-1575.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- "Of this book 250 copies have been printed, nos. 1-100 on Crane parchment paper, and nos. 101-250 on ordinary paper."--Colophon.
- Local Notes:
- Lea Library has "copy. no. 219".
- OCLC:
- 2855541
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