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The seat of war in the West Indies.

Description: Map shows overview of coastline of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean area; port towns of Portobelo, Havana, Veracruz, and Cartagena, illustrated profile of the approach to Havana harbor, the castle of San Juan de Ulúa, and Veracruz; roads, streets, buildings, and fortifications. Includes historical notes, legends, and one view, "A prospect of the Havana." Insets: [Map of] "A long sandy bay called St. John's Bay," [Map of the] "Bay of Honda or the deep bay in Cuba," "View of the town and its … more
Date: 1762
Creator: Bowen, Emanuel, d. 1767
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Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

America settentrionale divisa ne' suoi principali stati.

Description: Map shows detail of the eastern and western coasts of North America, New Spain, and the West Indies; areas of Native American habitation; French "Loisiana" [Louisiana]; Pacific and Atlantic Oceans connecting via waterways across the northern regions of North America. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.
Date: [1768..1788]
Creator: Zatta, Antonio, fl. 1757-1797
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Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Communication between Antonio Larralde and Nicolás Gutierres]

Description: Communication between Antonio Larralde and Sr. Lic. Dn. Nicolás Gutierres concerning a marriage license for Joseph Antonio Lozano. Lozano says a wedding cannot be performed due to the absence of a priest; Larralde requests that says that Gutierres should perform the ceremony and record the license.
Date: February 1762
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Partner: St. Mary's University Louis J. Blume Library

[Decree Prohibiting Unlawful Manufacturing of Gunpowder]

Description: Decree from the Marques de Croix prohibiting, without royal permit, the manufacturing or sale of gunpowder. Also included are the penalties to be administered for those guilty of dealing in its contraband. This decree includes both printed text and pieces of paper with tape around the edges containing hand written text.
Date: September 27, 1768
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Partner: St. Mary's University Louis J. Blume Library

[Correspondence Concerning a Marriage License]

Description: Communications concerning a marriage license for Joseph Antonio Losano and Maria Guadalupe Gimenes; Losano is a Mestizo, and Gimenes is a mulatta. In the following text Antonio Larralde mentions that Losano says that there are no obstacles with obtaining the license but there is no priest around to perform a wedding.
Date: January 16, 1762
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Partner: St. Mary's University Louis J. Blume Library

[Royal Decrees Concerning a Book and Gambling]

Description: Manuscript of a royal decree concerning the book about Regicide and Tyrranicide written by Fray Vicente Mas de Casaballs of the Order of Predicant friars; according to the decree this ideology must be stamped out, all teachers and students must observe section 15 of the Council of Constance. Included at the end is a torn, and stained bando, covered in tape against gambling and a request that all officials see to it that it is obeyed.
Date: 1768
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: St. Mary's University Louis J. Blume Library

[Decree from Carlos Francisco de Croix]

Description: Decree from the Marques de Croix, Viceroy of New Spain, to all the towns in the various cordilleras of the country, explaining the rules for the sale of tobacco; it includes details on where it can be sold, how it can be sold, as well as the taxes pertaining to the sales.
Date: {1768-02-19,1768-05-03}
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Partner: St. Mary's University Louis J. Blume Library

[Royal Decree from King Carlos III to the Marques de Croix]

Description: Printed copy of a royal decree from King Carlos III withdrawing a book written by Fray Luis Vicente Mas de Casavalls concerning a controversial doctrine of Regicide and Tyrannicide. Also included at the end is a written decree from the King requesting all religious officials to preach respect for the king.
Date: {1766,1768}
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Partner: St. Mary's University Louis J. Blume Library

[Printed Edict from the Marques de Croix]

Description: Printed edict from the Marques de Croix to the Justicia de Laredo informing him, and the other parish priests and magistrates, of the importance of teaching Indians the Spanish language so that they can be taught Christianity.
Date: October 10, 1769
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Partner: St. Mary's University Louis J. Blume Library

[Orders from the King Dispersed by the Marques de Croix]

Description: Orders from King Charles III to Bishops, and other members of the Church, to preach and practice respect for the Crown, the family, and all government officials. The orders, distributed in New Spain by Viceroy Marques de Croix, also call for them to limit activities to religious ones.
Date: July 22, 1768
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Partner: St. Mary's University Louis J. Blume Library

[Three Bandos from the Marques de Croix]

Description: Manuscript of a Bando from the Viceroy Marques de Croix letting the Governor of Nuevo Santander that the fleet has arrived in Veracruz. The first printed edict is from the Marques concerning the eradication of the Jesuit School of Thought; none may teach nor any university allow their books in their possession. The printed Bando is from the Marques and contains a referral by the King to a previous "Real Cedula" where religious authorities are not to give asylum to criminals hiding in churches. more
Date: {1769-03-31,1769-05-08}
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Partner: St. Mary's University Louis J. Blume Library

Mappa Geographica Regionen Mexicanam et Floridam Terrague adjacentes: ut et Anteriores Americæ Insulas, Cursus itidem et reditus Navigantium versus flumen Missisipi et alias Colonias of ocidos ponens.

Description: Map shows cities, towns, and geographical details of Mexico, the West Indies, and Florida as known during the mid-eighteenth century. Insets: "Bahia Portus Belli," "Tractus bahiæ et civitatis Havana" (ca.1:135,000), "Tractus civitatis Carthagena Castel ejus" (ca 1: 125,000), and "La vera cruz" (ca. 1:86,000). Relief shown pictorially. Scale [ca. 1: 9,350,000].
Date: 1760?
Creator: Lotter, Tobias Conrad, 1717-1777
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Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library
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