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2. MISCELLANEOUS VOLUMES. 
These volumes have only a small amount of matter bearing directly on 
the United States. 
“ Manuscritos Varios.” Five volumes, numbered I., II., III., IV., VI. 
Circa 1567-1819. A collection of materials, mainly original, gath- 
ered from the ecclesiastical archives, notably the archbishop’s. 
They are very miscellaneous in character, but deal largely with 
ecclesiastical matters, touching Mexico, South America, the Phil- 
ippines, the different orders, the clergy in the revolution, etc. Vol. 
V. has been transferred to the series ‘‘ Documentos Relativos a las 
Misiones de Californias ”, small folio, of which it is vol. IV. 
“Providencias Varias.”” Two volumes. Vol. I., 1767-1823; vol. IL, 
1823-1847. 
(Proclamations, orders, and miscellaneous manuscripts, evidently from the 
College of San Fernando. Originals.) 
“Documentos Relativos a la Independencia.” Two volumes, covering 
the period of the Revolution. (Mainly originals.) 
“Reales Cedulas.” One volume. Circa 1773-1822. 
(Royal cédulas, viceroy’s decrees, decrees of Iturbide, etc. Mainly decrees 
of the secular authorities directed to the archbishop, and evidently from 
the archibishop’s archive.) 
“Varias Cedulas.” Two volumes.” Vol. I., 1655-1727; vol. Il., 1726- 
1705. 
(A very full collection of royal cédulas directed to the Archbishop of 
Mexico. Evidently from the archive of the archbishopric. ) 
PAPELES DEL PADRE FISCHER (THE FISCHER COLLECTION). 
These papers came from the library of Father Fischer. 
“ Documentos Historicos Mexicanos.” Nine volumes, small folio. Sev- 
enteenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. The numbers of 
the volumes here given are those of the library from which they 
came. 
415, 427. “ Jesuitas.” 
417. “ Palafox y Jesuitas.” 
419-422. “ Inquisicion Mexicana.” 
423. “ Orden de San Diego.” 
(These volumes constitute a very valuable collection of documents, mainly 
original, on the history of the orders and of the Inquisition in America. 
The references to the United States are mainly incidental.) 
“ Coleccion y Trasuntos de Varios Escritos, Alegatos, Ynformes, Memo- 
riales, y Cartas, que el R. P. Fr. Rafael Verger, Predic*, Ap 
Mtro. en Artes . . . . Guardian Actual de este Ap Colegio de el 
Sefior S" Fern® de Megico, hizo en su defensa, en los tiempos que 
fue su Discreto, y Prelado, con grande honor del sob'® dho Cole- 
gio ; progresos de las Misiones de Monterrey ; y credito del Ynsti- 
tuto Ap®.”” Compiled, while Verger was guardian, by Fr. Fran- 
cisco Xavier Castro, of the college, and evidently from the college 
archive. One vol. 2095 ff. 
(This is a rare collection, and supplements in an important way the “ Docu- 
mentos Relativos 4 las Misiones de Californias”. On the Californias 
there are about forty documents for the period 1770-1773. ) 
