[Action for legal remedy based on the privilege of nobility].
Contributors: Peralta, Alonso de, fl. 1598.; Sanchez, Lorenço, fl. 1598.; New Spain. Corregidor (Mexico City).
Published: 1599
Language: spa
Number of pages: 174
Subjects: Gutierrez de Peralta, Juan, fl. 1598 -- Trials, litigation, etc.; Peralta, Alonso de, fl. 1598 -- Trials, litigation, etc.; Debtor and creditor -- Mexico.; Privileges and immunities -- Spain.; Privileges and immunities -- Mexico.; Titles of honor and nobility -- Spain.; Nobility -- Spain.; Manuscripts, Spanish -- Washington (D.C.)
Genres: Trials, litigation, etc.
Notes: Ms.
In Spanish.
Ornate certified copy of official transcript of proceedings in the successful action brought in Mexico City in 1598 before the royal magistrate (corregidor) by Juan Gutierrez de Peralta and Alonso de Peralta for release from prison and relief from other pressures to which they were subjected because of debt; includes record of the action by Lorenço Sanchez which had led to their imprisonment, and proofs of the nobility status (hidalguía) on which their release was eventually based; the proofs include records of proceedings which took place in Spain in 1518 and in later years in which the nobility of the Peralta line was established.
Begins (illuminated leaf 1a): En la Ciudad de Mexico a veynte y dos días del mes de dicienbre [sic] de mill e quínientos y noventa ocho años ante el Doctor Monforte ...
Purchased from Stechert, Paris, in 1939 (LL 566489); for a time identified as MS P3 in LC Law Library.
Written in Mexico City by Rodrigo del Campo, official scribe; copy completed and certified in 1599.
Foliated in modern pencil.
Illuminated initials include one with col. portrait of Emperor Charles V (leaf 99a).  Rebacked contemporary binding; upper cover gold-stamped in the Jesuit style.