LS in Spanish, signed ?Yo la Reyna,? one page, 8.5 x 9, November 2, 1503. Letter to Dr. Alfonso Ramires de Villaescusa, municipal royal representative in the town of Valladolid. In full (translated): "I have ordered Dr. de Palacios Rubios, a professor in the schools of that town, to go to the city of Cordoba to attend to certain matters involving the Inquisition in which Our Lord will receive much service, and because he is making his excuses, saying that he cannot go without that university's license and order, and I am writing to them asking them to give him license and count him as present during the time that he will be there, so that he will not be fined about his lectures, I order you, as soon as you see this, to give them my letter and seek a way for what I am writing to them to have its effect, because the said doctor is staying here awaiting the reply, and I would not like him to be detained very long. And in this you will serve me." In fine condition, with trimmed edges and expected small slits.
De Villaescusa served as both an advocate and magistrate in cases of property seizure during the Inquisition?s mass expulsion of Jews and converts. Following the Treaty of Granada and the surrender of the Moors in November 1491, the completion of the Reconquista left the Spanish kingdom in need of reparation. Issued by Ferdinand and Isabella on March 31, 1492, the Alhambra Decree ordered the removal of all practicing Jews from the regions of Castile and Aragon within a four-month span, an edict designed to purge Jewish influence from Spain?s large converso population. The broad expulsion also meant that all monies and property left behind were to be roundly confiscated by the Spanish crown. The city of Cordoba, the location Dr. Juan Lopez de Palacios Rubios was ordered to attend, was the site of one of the first two tribunals established during the Inquisition.
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