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EAP627/2/2/4
- Record Id:
- 040-003413911
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003413904
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100060706974.0x000046
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- EAP627/2/2/4
- Title:
- Royal Orders, 1745-1755
- Scope & Content:
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Printed and manuscript documentation originally separate and bound in a single volume. The volume registers royal letters and decrees (alvarás de lei) dating from 1745 to 1755 and sent to the capitães mores of Paraíba. Records orders to re-inspect an English vessel under the command of Miler Nordes that docked in the Captaincy in 1742; construction costs of the Fortaleza de Cabedelo; requests for armaments made by interim governor José Lobo Lacerda to the auxiliaries of the cavalry; the nomination of Jose Antonio da Cunha for accountant (provedor) of the Royal Treasury of the captaincy; the request of Francisco Pereira das Chagas, bookkeeper (guarda livros) counting house (Casa dos Contos); the excesses committed by residents of the backlands (sertão) of Piancó against the Panati Indians; a decree (alvará) about the marriage of Portuguese and Indians; an alvará de lei prohibiting the sale of African slaves outside of Portuguese territory, and other documents concerning administration of the captaincy.
Extent and format of original material: 1 volume of 244 folios, in addition to front and back covers. Contains non-original cover; folios damaged by insects and iron gall ink.
Creator (Author): King (Portugal); Overseas Council (Conselho Ultrarino, Portugal)
- Collection Area:
- Endangered Archives Programme
- Project / Collection:
- Digitisation of secular and ecclesiastical sources in São João do Carirí e João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003413904
036-003413907
040-003413911 - Is part of:
- EAP627/2 : Records of the Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Paraibano
EAP627/2/2 : Royal Orders
EAP627/2/2/4 : Royal Orders, 1745-1755 - Hierarchy:
- 032-003413904[0002]/036-003413907[0004]/040-003413911
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: EAP627/2
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 492 TIFF images
- Digitised Content:
- https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP627-2-2-4
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Portuguese
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1745
- End Date:
- 1755
- Date Range:
- 1745-1755
- Era:
- CE
- Latitude (Decimal):
- -7.112366
- Longitude (Decimal):
- -34.844178
- Access:
-
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