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Author: Howard, Amy (ID633)
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maybe whatever these are were still sitting there when Mont came along.
maybe whatever these are were still sitting there when Mont came along.
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SA had two shipments of crusade indulgences sitting unsold in the warehouse
Date Created: 2023-10-12 20:56:17
Source: The King?s Coffer (ID 83)
Author: Bushnell, Amy (ID 32)
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The crown’s other ecclesiastical revenue in Florida came from the cruzada, or bulls of the crusade, which Haring has called “the queerest of all taxes.” This was a semicompulsory indulgence whose proceeds had been granted by the popes to the Spanish crown in recognition of its crusading activities. Royal officials and other dignitaries in the Indies paid two pesos a year, regular Spanish subjects one peso, and Indians and blacks two reales. The cruzada must have been permitted to go for local purposes in Florida, for the indulgences were independently requested by the royal officials, a priest, and perhaps a governor. Governor Marques Cabrera once received 5,000 of them, neatly divided between bulls for the living and for the dead. [Note 17: Francisco Menendez Marquez and Pedro Benedit Horruytiner 4/24/1647; Sebastian Perez de la Cerda 7/16/1681; cedula to Gov. Marques Cabrera 11/27/1683] A cleric known as the minister or subdelegate of the Tribunal of the Holy Crusade did the preaching, and another cleric served as the notary. [Note 18: Gov. Cendoya 3/24/1672; cedula to the governor 2/6/1696; Antonio Ponce de Leon affidavit 2/26/1687] By the end of the 17th century the market was glutted. The royal officials asked that no more indulgences be sent to Florida, where the people were poor and the last two shipments were sitting unsold in the warehouse. AN60 Ignoring pressure from the parish priest and the Council of the Indies, they refused to publicize the bulls any further. [Note 19: Royal officials 4/25/1696; Alonso de Leturiondo 8/23/1697; Council re bulls of the crusade 4/26/1698] (Bushnell KC)