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PSCR8592

1773. Carta de Antúnez para Raimundo de Sobremonte, marqués de Sobremonte.

Author(s) Antúnez      
Addressee(s) Raimundo de Sobremonte      
In English

Letter from Antúnez to Raimundo de Sobremonte, marquis of Sobremonte.

The author asks Raimundo de Sobremonte to act on Diego Hurtado´s behalf for him to obtain the licence he needs to embark for America.

In 1770 an action against Diego Hurtado de Mendoza was brought by the Hospital de San Juan de Dios on the grounds of lack of payment of some maravedis. Diego Hurtado became indebted with the aforementioned institution after staying there, together with a black slave, due to a venereal disease. The litigation includes not only the case files with the rejoinders and surrejoinders from the involved parties, but also a bundle of letters written between 1772 and 1773. After reading the letters and the medical reports, one can glimpse the health journey this young man from Lima went through. The proceedings continued in the Real Audiencia, where its president, Raimundo de Sobremonte, marquis of Sobremonte, assumed Diego´s care and managed his material and physical well-being. Diego moved to Arcos de la Frontera and to Cadiz, where slowly recovered in the care of Nicolás de Lanuza and the religious from a convent in Cadiz. Once he slightly recovered, he decided to go back to Lima, given that his mother had passed away and his inheritance and hacienda were being handled by his sister. The epistolary trace takes us to the previous moment before embarking to America, since the management of his departure is mentioned in the letters.

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Mi mas estimado Amo y sor aier me manifesto dn Diego de Mendoza qe ya no tenia seguridad de biage con el Amo que havia ofrecido llebarlo, pero me añadio qe Nro Juez Behedor le proporcionaria pasage si Yo le facilitaba la lizencia: con deseo de hazer este obsequio a vmd, y al pobre Ynteresado hable hoy a un Presidte sre el asumpto, pero no halla medio de eludir la Ley de Yndias que nos prohibe dejar pasar sin permiso del Rey a los Solteros Naturales de ellas: como Yo esta dificulttad procure allanarla interpretando benignamte esta prohibicion, pero no pude reducir a mi Gefe.

En estas circunstancias me pareze lo mas conveniente qe vmd como curador extraordinario de este Pobre tome el trabajo de hazer recurso al sor Bo Arriaga, o al Consejo de Yndias para lograr esa licencia qe alli es mui facil por la naturaleza del caso en cuestion y por los documentos que en testimonio podran acompañar la instanzia dirigidos a justificar la pobreza indisposicions, calidad, solteria, y retiro del serbicio del Pretendiente: aca se huviera dirijido por la Presidenza este recurso si no considerase qe hoy es mas facil justificar su relacion por los citados papeles, y por la autoridad qe reside en vmd para ejecutarlo, dando tpo la salida de los Navios qe no sera hasta fines del proximo Nobiembre.

El mismo Mendoza me ha pedido haga a vmd este encargo, y Yo lo ejecuto sintiendo no haver podido evitar a vmd esta molestia con mis diligencias que continuare en quanto sea del obsequio de vmd por cuia vida y salud ruego a Dios mui de veras su affmo sego Amo y servor

Antunez 8re 8 de 1773 sor Marqs de Sobremontte.
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