Excmo. Sor. Don Diego Ladron de Guevara, puesto á los pies de V.E. con el mas profundo rendimiento, dice: que el conocimiento, y experiencia que tiene de los gravissimos daños, que resultan de permitirse el grande numero de pobres mendicantes ..
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1757
Place of publication: Lima
Language: spa
Notes: Title from caption and beginning of text.

Not the same Diego Ladrón de Guevara as the bishop of Quito and viceory of Peru (1641-1718). According to Medina, "D. Diego Ladrón de Guevara nació en Lezaún, cerca de Pamplona en Navarra. Después de haberse enriquecido en el comercio se dedicó á proteger la Casa de Huerfanos, y en 1757 con el memorial que describimos se presentó al Virrey Conde de Superunda á fin de que se le autorizase para fundar un hospicio, ofreciendo para ello su persona y fortuna, como en efecto lo logró en 1765, nombrándosele mayordomo, cargo que desempeñó hasta su fallecimiento, occurido en 1775."

Published in the late 1750s according to Medina, but not before 1760 according to Vargas Ugarte. Vargas Ugarte maintains that his copy of the piece in question includes an additional, apparently separately signed leaf, containing two reales cédulas of 24 Nov. 1759, the first granting Ladrón de Guevara a license to found a hospicio de pobres, and the second thanking him for his proposal and approving his taking charge of the new institution. It is possible therefore that the John Carter Brown Library copy is incomplete, but it is also possible that the leaf containing the royal decrees was printed separately. That the latter rather than the former is the case is probable inasmuch as Medina saw a copy of this piece at the Biblioteca Nacional de Chile in Santiago, and Leclerc saw yet another copy of this piece, also consisting of four leaves or eight pages.

Signatures: [B]p4s ([B]2 missigned B) (B4 verso blank)

Leclerc, C. Bib. Americana, 495:11.

Medina, J.T. Lima, 2532.

Vargas Ugarte, R. Impresos peruanos, 2914.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound with: Memorial, en que el Dean, y Cabildo de esta Santa Iglesia Metropolitana de los Reyes propone, y representa los derechos que tiene para pedir reforma de dos autos proveìdos en visita por el illustrissimo señor doctor don Pedro Antonio de Barroeta y Angel su arzobispo, del consejo de su Magestad. / Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Lima (Peru). Cabildo Eclesiástico. [Lima : s.n., 1754]