Portaria do [secretário de estado da Repartição da Índia, Brasil, Mina e Guiné], Rui Dias de Meneses, em que determina o acréscimo de mil xerafins aos padres da Companhia de Jesus na China para a sua residência.
Royal decree issued by the King of Portugal on 3 September 1615, originating from Lisbon and addressed to the Viceroy of India, concerning the financial provision for Jesuit missionaries in China. The document records the monarch’s decision to augment the annual stipend granted to the Company of Jes...
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1615-12-03
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Annual Stipend Increase
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Augmented Grant
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Biblioteca Stamp
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Certification Listing Religious
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Colonial Administrative Record
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Company of Jesus
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Conditional Disbursement
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Disbursement Verification
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Financial Provision
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Fourteen Prior Complement
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Historical Diplomatic Correspondence
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Jesuit Mission in East Asia
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Jesuit Missionaries in China
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King of Portugal
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Lisbon Document
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Overseas Territories
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Portuguese Colonial Finance
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Portuguese Royal Decree
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Religious Missionary Support
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Rui Dias de Meneses
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Suspension Clause
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Twenty-One Missionaries
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Verification of Numerical Increase
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Viceroy of India
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Xerafins Allocation
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Manuscripts
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| Online Access: | https://macau-legacy.usj.edu.mo/docs/P4732JPB/viewer_P4732JPB.html |
| Summary: | Royal decree issued by the King of Portugal on 3 September 1615, originating from Lisbon and addressed to the Viceroy of India, concerning the financial provision for Jesuit missionaries in China. The document records the monarch’s decision to augment the annual stipend granted to the Company of Jesus in the Chinese mission by one thousand xerafins, increasing the total allocation from two thousand to three thousand xerafins per annum. This increase is conditional upon confirmation that the number of Jesuit religious in China has risen to twenty-one, exceeding the original fourteen who had been supported under the prior arrangement. The augmentation is explicitly tied to the presence of at least seven additional missionaries beyond the original complement. The Viceroy of India is instructed to verify this numerical increase through official certification listing all religious stationed in the missions under Jesuit authority, including those in China, before disbursement may proceed. Failure to provide documented evidence will result in the suspension of both the additional payment and any future increments. Endorsed by Rui Dias de Meneses and bearing archival stamps from the Biblioteca Nacional Secção Ultramarina and Arquivo Histórico Colonial, Lisboa, the document forms part of the Portuguese colonial administrative records relating to Asia (AHU_CU_Índia). It reflects the Crown’s fiscal oversight of missionary activities in its overseas territories during the early seventeenth century. AHU-Arquivo Historico Ultramarino Volume 1 - 004 |
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