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Download or read book Documents pertaining to the Discalced Carmelites in Spain and Latin America written by Discalced Carmelites and published by . This book was released on 1638 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Petitions, letters, receipts, powers of attorney, financial accounts, and printed licenses from 1638-1796, pertaining to the business and religious affairs of the Discalced Carmelites in Spain, Mexico, Cuba, Peru, Colombia, and Ecuador. The documents, undoubtedly once part of the archives of the Discalced Carmelite Order, include powers of attorney for representation of Carmelite provinces in America at the court in Madrid; licenses of 1697 signed by Charles II, allowing the founding of Discalced Carmelite monasteries in Antequera and Toluca, Mexico; and a license signed by the marqués de Casafuerte, viceroy of New Spain, permitting Carmelites to travel to Spain. Correspondence between American Carmelite officials and the procurator general of the Order in Madrid, especially Fathers Pedro de San Juan de la Cruz from 1730-32, and Marcos de San Joseph from 1716-17, includes letters, receipts, and accounts concerning shipments of silver from the Carmelites in America to Spain; printed licenses completed by hand for the release and transfer of the funds from the ships at Cádiz; and petitions and responses concerning land disputes between the Carmelites in Salvatierra, Mexico, and the Augustinians in the province of Michoacán. Orders, reports, and inventories from Feb.4-April 23, 1772, compiled by commissioner Francisco Xavier Machado Fiesco concern the expropriation of five "colegios" in Puebla, formerly owned by the Jesuits. These and other Jesuit-related documents bear signatures of viceroys Bucareli, Branciforte, and Revillagigedo, as well as state's attorney Areche. Also included is a 1683 transcript documenting the formal renunciation by Gaspar de Salcedo of Puno, Peru, of claims against Pedro García de Ovalle, a judge in the case against Salcedo and his brother Joseph.