Alegacion en derecho, en defensa de la iurisdiccion ecclesiastica
By: Por el dotor don Iuan Blasquez de Valuerde abogado desta Real Audiencia de Los Reyes, y de los pleytos, y causas desta santa iglesia metropolitana, cathedratico de prima e leyes desta Real Vniuersidad, assessor del iuzgado ecclesiastico, y del Tribunal del Consulado, y commercio de mercaderes deste reyno
Contributors: Villagómez, Pedro de, 1589-1671; Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Lima (Peru). Archbishop (1641-1671 : Villagómez)
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1647
Place of publication: Lima
Language: spa
Number of pages: 16
Subjects: Monasticism and religious orders; Sumptuary laws; Clothing and dress; Habit; Jurisdiction (Canon law); Law and legislation
Other titles: Alegacion en derecho, en defensa de la ivrisdiccion ecclesiastica.
Notes: Dated on recto of leaf 16: Lima 30. de otubre de 1647. años. El D. don Iuan Blasquez de Valuerde.

Relates to the edict of Pedro de Villagómez concerning the wearing of the clerical habit. On 31 July 1647, Archbishop Villagomez issued an edict criticizing and forbidding clerics from sporting certain hairstyles, and seculars from dressing themselves in clerical habit. While the former provides a fascinating look at everyday Lima, if nothing more, the latter pertains to a larger issue. "Terceros" (members of the "third order") of the Franciscans, Augustinians, and other orders were permitted by the orders to dress in the orders' habit under certain circumstances, and the orders didn't answer to the archbishop. This legal opinion addresses the question of whether he had the authority to prohibit their use or not, thus also addresses the broader issue of the relationship between Diocesan and Regular clergy.

Signatures: A-H² (A1  missigned ".;."; A2 missigned A; D2 missigned D) (A1, H2 versos blank)

Woodcut head piece.

Medina, J.T. Imprenta en Lima (1584-1824), 280.

Purchase; 2017; 18-030.

Text primarily in Spanish with some passages in Latin.

John Carter Brown Library copy is numbered from 251-266 in ms. hand in upper right hand corner.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in modern red morocco with gold tooling.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Divestiture Fund.