b'Lot 126 Lot 127126 (INQUISITION). Domingo de Soussa. Sermn En El Auto Pblico De Fe, Que El Tribunal De El Santo Ofcio De Nueva Espaa, Celebr El Da Catorze De Junio De 1699 En El Real Convento De N.P.S. Domingo De Mxico.FIRST EDITION.Title within typographic border. Engraving on rst page. ff. (12), 8. Lightly stained, small area of worming in lower right corner runs through all pages, stamp of religious order on title. Unbound. 8vo. [No institutional holdings listed in Worldcat.] Mexico, Por los Herederos de la Viuda de Francisco Rodriguez Lupercio, 1699. $1200 - $1800 Exceptionally rare account of the last Auto de Fe carried out by the Inquisition in Mexico City in 1699. In this instance, those accused of heresy included a merchant by the name of Fernando de Medina who practiced Judaism in secret. The chronicle describes that de Medina vehemently refused to atone of his Jewish faith and was thus condemned to being burnt alive. At no point did he ask for mercy, and when Medina was about to die amidst the ames, he called over a Catholic priest, and with his nal words excalimed that he was dying as a Jew.The text records the remarkable event: Having come to the stake with the same stubborn serenityhe called a Religious man of those who assisted him in that last trance, but it was only to protest that he died in the faith of those circumcised. After that, all hopes of his salvation were completely frustrated.127 (INQUISITION). Nos Don Francisco Xavier Mier y Campillo Inquisidor GeneralA todos los Fieles habitantesmoradores de ellos, de cualquier estado, calidad Large single broadside. Printed seal of the inquisition. Autograph signatures of the Mexican Inquisitors: Manuel Flores and Jose Antonio Tirado. 17 x 25 inches (43 x 63 cm). Mexico, 8th June, 1816. $1200 - $1800 Edict of the General Inquisitor Francisco Xavier Mier and Campillo originally passed in Madrid on January 13, 1816 and signed by him and Cristbal de Cos y Vivero, secretary of the King and of the Council, by which the previous edicts and norms of the Holy Ofce are renewed. That is to say, persecution of heresy crimes are now restored subsequent to the brief suppression that followed the Inquisitions abolition by the Cortes of Cdiz.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.63'