[Peru]. [Tribute]

[Manuscript Accounting of Colonial Support for the Spanish Royal Retreat, El Escorial]

[Lima: 1787]. [23]pp. Folio. Light soiling and minor wear. Small worm hole through lower center of text block, occasionally affecting a word. Accomplished in a neat, secretarial script. Very good. Item #5761

Certified copy of a document relating to 13,200 ducats due to the monks of the Escorial in Spain, promised to them in perpetuity by Philip IV in 1654, and paid from duties collected in colonial Peru. In exchange for this annual subsidy of proceeds from encomiendas in Huaylas, Chuquitanta, Conchucas, and other regions in Peru, the monks promised to say masses and to do other certain religious acts for the crown. This document contains specific and detailed accounting numbers for the years 1781 to 1785, inclusive.

Price: $1,250.00