Discurso i alegacion en derecho, sobre la culpa que resulta contra el General do[n] Iuan de Benavides Baçan, i Almirante don Iuan de Leoz, Cavalleros del Orden de Santiago, i otros consortes ...
By: por el doctor Ioan de Solorzano Pereira, del Consejo de su Magestad en el Real de las Indias, que por su mandado haze oficio de fiscal en èl.
Contributors: Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Por Francisco Martinez
Published: 1631
Place of publication: En Madrid
Language: spa
Number of pages: 196
Subjects: Benavides Bazán, Juan de, -- d. 1634 -- Trials, litigation, etc; Leoz, Juan de, -- fl. 1628-1631 -- Trials, litigation, etc; Trials (Naval Offenses) -- Spain -- Early works to 1800; Briefs -- Spain -- Early works to 1800; Piracy -- New Spain -- History -- 17th century; New Spain -- History -- 17th century; Matanzas Bay (Cuba) -- History -- 17th century; Piracy -- Cuba -- Matanzas Bay -- History -- 17th century; Netherlands -- Foreign relations -- 1556-1648; Spain -- Foreign relations -- 1621-1665
Genres: Trials, litigation, etc.; Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Discvrso i alegacion en derecho, sobre la culpa que resulta contra el General dõ Iuan de Benavides Baçan, i Almirante don Iuan de Leoz
Notes: "En razon de aver desamparado la Flota de su cargo, que el año passado de 1628. venìa à estos Reinos de la Provincia de Nueva España, dexandola, sin hazer defensa, ni resistencia alguna, en manos de Cossario Olandes, en el Puerto i Baîa de Matanças, donde se apoderò della, i de su tesoro."

Legal defense prepared by Solorzano for the Spanish officers who lost their fleet and its silver cargo to Dutch raiders in Matanzas Bay in 1628.

Signatures:  Pi² [2 paragraph signs]² [3 paragraph signs]² [4 paragraph signs]² A-3C².

"Indice de los capitulos" [i.e. contents] and "Sumario de los puntos principales deste discurso" printed in double columns before main text.

Text printed in single columns on each page; with printed marginalia. Some italics.

Paragraphs of main text are numbered 1 through 500.

Woodcut coat of arms and border on t.p.; woodcut initials and tail pieces.

LC copy in limp vellum binding with alum tawed ties; hand lettered on spine: Allegacion de Solorzano.

Antonio, N.  Bibliotheca Hispana Nova (1783) vol. 1, p. 781

Medina, J.T.  Bib. hispano-americana vol. 2, p. 338-339, #894

Palau y Dulcet (2. ed.) vol. 21, p. 492, # 318993

Sabin vol. 22, p. 13, # 86531

Provenance: Gift of Jay I. Kislak Foundation.