1681. Carta de Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, conde de la Corzana, para Francisco de Urbina.

Letter from Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, the count of Corzana, to Francisco de Urbina.

The author asks Francisco de Urbina to send him an amount of money, although he also wants to be informed of whether that is possible or if the money is necessary for another purpose.

In 1705 María Josefa de Urbina Eguiluz claimed before the Council the payment of certain amount of money from the counts of Corzana. She had issued a previous claim in 1702 before the ordinary courts of Vitoria. She was María Francisca de Urbina´s mother and proxy and she acted on her behalf, as her husband had been a royal secretary and her daughter was his heir. The amount she was claiming was 4000 reals and apparently she had proof of it through three notes addressed to Francisco de Urbina from the count of Corzana on June the 7th, July the 6th and August the 5th of 1681. Apart from that amount, she also claimed eight doubloons borrowed to the countess of Corzana as shown in a letter from the countess herself. However, the information that appears in the file does not correspond with the documentation presented. As a matter of fact, the count´s lawyer did not recognized the documents as being written by Diego Hurtado and underlined the inconsistency in the dates (June the 27 and July the 6th, in the notes attributed to the count), as well as its expiration due to the date they were written. An annotation on the margin reads as follows: "I sent her eight doubloons on that same day".

In this letter there is an annotation on the margin pointing the following information out: "On July the 7th I sent the count the two thousand reals he asks for in this note".