…Nos Don Francisco Xavier Mier y Campillo… Inquisidor General … A todos los Fieles habitantes ó moradores de ellos, de cualquier estado, calidad…

(INQUISITION).

8th June

Mexico

1816

Large single broadside. Printed seal of the inquisition. Autograph signatures of the Mexican Inquisitors: Manuel Flores and Jose Antonio Tirado.

Edict of the General Inquisitor Francisco Xavier Mier and Campillo originally passed in Madrid on January 13, 1816 and signed by him and Cristóbal de Cos y Vivero, secretary of the King and of the Council, by which the previous edicts and norms of the Holy Office are renewed. That is to say, persecution of heresy crimes are now restored subsequent to the brief suppression that followed the Inquisition’s abolition by the Cortes of Cádiz. This is an extensive text in which the pious attitude of the Inquisition is praised for his indulgence for not having prosecuted the crimes of faith in the previous months, despite the ravages caused by the pernicious ideas that the crimes of faith had spread among the Spaniards. See Biblioteca Sefarad, 100 Important Inquisitions Decrees, no. 23: http://server.knosys.es/sefarad_pdf/100_Impresos_espanoles_Inquisicion.pdf.pdf.