"The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540-1835 (CCEd), launched in 1999 and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, makes available and searchable the principal records of clerical careers from over 50 archives in England and Wales with the aim of providing coverage of as many clerical lives as possible from the Reformation to the mid-nineteenth century.
"The New Laws of the Indies, 1542
The Laws and ordinances newly made by His Majesty for the
government of the Indies and good treatment and preservation of the Indians
created a set of pro-Indian laws - so pro-Indian that they some had to be
revoked in Mexico and in Peru due to settler opposition. where the viceroy was
killed when he attempted to enforce them.
The conflict was between "feudalists" who favored the
encomienda system because it maintained society as in the Old World, and the
more centralizing "regalists" who wanted to preserve royal power in Spain;s new
Empire. Eventually the encomienda was allowed to continue.
Charles by the divine clemency Emperor ever august, King of
Germany. . . . To the Most Illustrious Prince Don Philip our very dear and very
beloved grandson and son, and to the Infantes our grandsons and sons, and to the
President, and those of our Council of the Indies, and to our Viceroys,
Presidents and Auditors of our Audiencias and royal Chanceries of our said
Indies, Islands and Continent of the Ocean Sea; to our Governors, Alcaldes
mayores and our other Authorities thereof, and to all the Councils, magistrates,
regidores, knights, esquires, officers, and commoners of all the cities, towns,
and villages of our said Indies, Islands, and Tierra-firme of the Ocean Sea,
discovered and to be discovered; and to any other persons, captains,
discoverers, settlers, and inhabitants dwelling in and being natives thereof, of
whatever state, quality, condition and pre-eminence they may be. . . .
Know ye, That having for many years had will and intention
as leisure to occupy ourselves with the affairs of the Indies, on account of
their great importance, as well in that touching the service of God our Lord and
increase of his holy Catholic faith, as in the preservation of the natives of
those parts, and the good government and preservation of their persons; and
although we have endeavoured