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centuries) ; with the viceroy, the governors, and the ministers of 
state ( eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) ; and with the various 
convents and monasteries. 
Circulars of the archbishop to the clergy. 
Matrimoniales, Testamientos, Capellanias, Obras Pias, Archicofradias 
and Cofradias. 
Patents of indulgence, individual and corporate. 
Censures of books by the Inquisition. 
Funds for maintaining religious houses. 
Various expedientes concerning secularization. Nineteenth century. 
Trials before the juzgado of the archbishopric. Appeals and original 
trials. 
Fondo Piadoso de Californias. 
Papers from many convents, mainly accounts and other documents hav- 
ing a financial bearing. It is evident that some of these came 
from the archives of the convents, for they include correspond- 
ence directed to the heads of these establishments. 
Papers of Don Alonso de Morales, governor of the Marquisate of the 
Valley, the estates of Cortés. 1690-1710. 
(They came to the possession of the church as the result of a bequest 
which he made of property to it. They contain much important matter 
for the history of Mexico.) 
Relating to the Bishop of Louisiana. Ina legajo beginning with a docu- 
ment numbered 116 is an expediente (no. 180) dated 1802, which 
deals with the pay of Luis Pefialvez when he was bishop of Louisi- 
ana and Florida. 
A legajo of expedientes relative to the missions of als College of Pa- 
chuca in Sierra Gorda. 1740-1760. 
(Correspondence of Escandon and others.) 
