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16842107010025Impresso en Lima 1684. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. The Administration of 17th Century Peru: the Abuse of Indians by the Clergy Folio. Bound in contemporary vellum. Good binding and cover. Minor foxing and marginal dampstaining but a still an attractive copy. Palau 267; Sabin 41987. <br> Melchor Linan y Cisneros was the Archbishop of Lima for thirty years and served as viceroy of Peru from 1678-1681. He argued for ecclesiastical liberty against the attempts of his successor Melchor de Navarra Duke of Palata's attempts to curtail clergical abuses. Some of the parish priests and friars were exacting oppressive church taxes against the indigenous population. This book's author Juan Luis Lopez served as the Duke of Palata's secretary and attempts to defend the Duke of Palata's curbs on clergical abuses. "The Archbishop of Lima Melchor de Linan y Cisneros had objected to a decree issued by the Viceroy of Peru Melchor de Navarra y Rocalfull Duke de la Palata for the suppression of certain ecclesiastical abuses. The present publication was issued by order of the Viceroy in answer to the Archbishop's objections." - Maggs SPANISH AMERICA AND THE GUIANAS 1935. Subtitle: "despachada por el govierno superior y reducida a ordenanc̜a en el tom. 1. fol. 311. : sobre que en recibir los corregidores deste reyno informaciones secretas de oficio o a instancia de parte en orden a averiguar como observan los curas y doctrineros las disposiciones canonicas synodales cedulas y ordenancas de su magestad que tratan de las obenciones que deben llevar a los indios a fin solo de dar cuenta con ellas a sus prelados y al govierno superior destos reynos paraque lo remedien no se contraviene en cosa alguna a la immunidad de la iglesia. Impresso en Lima hardcover