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Volume 35 - July 1978

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Research Article

  • The Will of Nuño de Guzmán; President, Governor and Captain General of New Spain and the Province of Pánuco, 1558

  • Donald Chipman
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    11 December 2015, pp. 238-248

  • For several years the life and times of Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán has occupied my scholarly interests. On two occasions I have carried out extended periods of research in Spanish archives. In the notary archive of Valladolid I spent three weeks in a fruitless search for Guzmán's will. I reluctantly concluded that the document was not where it ought to be and accepted the likelihood that it would never be found—if indeed it was extant. I was therefore astonised to see the will advertised in 1973 as an item for sale in Catalogue No. 490 of the firm of Hellmut Schumann AG (Zürich, Switzerland). The asking price was an astronomical 11,000 Swiss Francs for eighteen folios. At that time the equivalent value in U. S. dollars was nearly $4,000.00.

Documents

  • From a Prison in Brazil—1774

  • Stanley F. Chyet
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    11 December 2015, pp. 573-580

  • Edmund Burke was much troubled in 1775 by the deteriorating relations between Great Britain and her North American dependencies. Even so grave a crisis, however, did not prevent him from noting and extolling “the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale fishery.” New England whalers were sailing to places as remote as the South Atlantic Falkland Islands “in the progress of their victorious industry.”

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