Real cédula on restoring obvenciones in the diocese of the Yucatán.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Spain. Sovereign (1814-1833 : Ferdinand VII)

Contributor:

Manuel, Antonio, scribe.

Estévez y Ugarte, Pedro Agustín de, 1745-1827, addressee.

Language:

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church. Diocese of Yucatán (Mexico)--History.

Catholic Church.

Catholic Church. Diocese of Yucatán (Mexico).

History.

Mexico--History--1810-.

Mexico.

Yucatán (Mexico : State)--History.

Yucatán (Mexico : State).

Genre:

Correspondence.

Manuscripts, Mexican.

Physical Description:

1 item (1 bifolium)

Production:

Mérida, 1816.

Language Note:

In Spanish.

Summary:

Royal letter from Ferdinand VII of Spain to Pedro Agustín Estévez y Ugarte, bishop of the diocese of the Yucatán, confirming the revocation of a previous decree (November 9, 1812) which had abolished the system of obvenciones and indigenous mandatory labor on behalf of the clergy. This communication dated October 12, 1815. Additions in a different hand below include the order of Estévez y Ugarte in Mérida dated January 17, 1816, stating that the contents of the letter be publicized throughout the diocese. The final line of the manuscript states that it is a copy made in Mérida on January 17, 1816, by Antonio Manuel, the diocesan secretary.

Local Notes:

Housed in a box containing 29 printed broadsides, sheets and pamphlets and 3 manuscripts relating to early 19th-century Mexico and the Yucatán, most dated between 1809-1820.

OCLC:

895067501