Documentation concerning evidence used in a legal case by the community of Pamparomas against the Dominican Colegio de Santo Tomas about land and water rights. Decrees, wills, and other manuscripts from as early as 1591 were copied out and included in the manuscript to support the community case...
The manuscript details that in the 1770s, Colonel Cayetano Paxuelo drove the people of Pamparomas off of their land. The people were left with small plots and worked as laborers in the nearby hacienda of Pampas. The village lands were transferred to the hacienda of Santa Catalina, owned by the D...
From the mid-1770s, the Pamparomas villagers again contested their removal, but to no avail. Their case was taken up again in the 1790s, under Cacica Doña Maria Vilcarima, widow of the former Cacique Marcelo Quispe Condor. She triumphed, and in 1793, the people of Pamparomas were granted titles ...
The Dominicans appealed the decision against them, claiming that the village of Pamparomas had never actually existed, and that the so-called villagers had been workers on the Pampas hacienda since the sixteenth century. The Governor of Huarochiri helped to make the case for appeared with a miss...
19th century documents from the Peruvian asylum el Manicomio del Cercado
Scope & Content:
The collection has been organised into seven documentary series describing the administrative history of the Lima Asylum. These series, which are dated from the end of the 19th century, are the result of the process of organising and classifying eight books and three medical files with approxima...
Libro de Gastos Generales del Manicomio de Lima (1860-1874)
Scope & Content:
Handwritten book of the monthly expenses incurred by the Lima Asylum between 1860 and 1874. In this series it is possible to find the expenses that were made in terms of food, clothing, fees, basic services and even the amounts of the pensioner patients of the Lima Insane Asylum. The book has so...
Handwritten folios of the monthly expenses of the Lima Insane Asylum in 1860. Folios manuscritos de los gastos mensuales del Manicomio de Lima de 1860. Extent: 34 folios. Size and dimensions of original material: 42.5 x 27.5 cm.
Handwritten folios of the monthly expenses of the Lima Insane Asylum in 1861. Folios manuscritos de los gastos mensuales del Manicomio de Lima de 1861. Extent: 26 folios. Size and dimensions of original material: 42.5 x 27.5 cm.
Handwritten folios of the monthly expenses of the Lima Insane Asylum in 1862. Folios manuscritos de los gastos mensuales del Manicomio de Lima de 1862. Extent: 26 folios. Size and dimensions of original material: 42.5 x 27.5 cm.
Handwritten folios of the monthly expenses of the Lima Insane Asylum in 1863. Folios manuscritos de los gastos mensuales del Manicomio de Lima de 1863. Extent: 36 folios. Size and dimensions of original material: 42.5 x 27.5 cm. Condition of original material: Folio 36 has stains.
