Carta do Senado da Câmara de Macau a [D. Pedro], príncipe regente de Portugal, em que faz referência aos direitos sobre o rendimento das viagens impostas pelo vice-rei, à impossibilidade de a cidade pagar esses direitos, à grande concorrência comercial por parte dos holandeses e ao pedido de socorros para defesa e conservação do presídio.
This is a composite archival document comprising three distinct but contemporaneous 1673 Portuguese colonial administrative and legal texts originating from Macau, with supplementary references to São Paulo de Macau, the Indian ecclesiastical province, and related jurisdictions in Asia. The principa...
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| Format: | Manuscripts |
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1673-01-10
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| Subjects: |
17Th-Century Historical Document
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Administrative Strain
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Alferes Ensign
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Archival Cataloguing
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Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino
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Colonial Historical Archive of the House
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Cursive Script
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Damello de Silva
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Divine Mercy Invocation
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Economic Decline
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Fragmented Correspondence
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Frigue Grimaldo
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Iberian bureaucracy
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Legal Regulation
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Lusophone colonial governance
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M. G. de Lusa
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Macau
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Marginalia Annotations
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Orthographic Irregularities
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Portuguese Colonial Administration
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Prince Regent of Portugal
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Resource Sustainability
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Settlement Deterioration
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Territorial Vulnerability
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War-Related Trade Disruption
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Manuscripts
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| Online Access: | https://macau-legacy.usj.edu.mo/docs/TGQ4TU66/viewer_TGQ4TU66.html |
| Summary: | This is a composite archival document comprising three distinct but contemporaneous 1673 Portuguese colonial administrative and legal texts originating from Macau, with supplementary references to São Paulo de Macau, the Indian ecclesiastical province, and related jurisdictions in Asia. The principal components are: (1) a formal petition dated 10 January 1673 concerning the proposed appointment of an individual to the office of *Lindo Malho d’Agange*, entangled with land claims (*grina*) in Selgera (likely São José or São Paulo complex), contested by the *Juna Mozerna* and the *Companhia de São Intreicada*, and involving fiscal administration, judicial injunctions (*striga*), and procedural safeguards under the *Senado*’s chancery; (2) a supplementary administrative report—also dated 10 January 1673—detailing ecclesiastical appointments, military deployments in the Ignorini region, unrest in Hyne Durcanda (Lugy Grouve district), vulnerabilities in Etha Cido Emergirgo, infrastructural deficiencies in medical provision, and systemic challenges to governance, agriculture, and public health across the Galvarad region; and (3) a personal declaration of filiation and legitimation dated 10 March 1673, executed by João Damasceno de Oliveira in Macau, acknowledging his daughter Maria José as legitimate *per aliam viam* and authorising her son-in-law Generoso de Jesus Servido, with contextual reference to Minas Gerais Province. All texts bear marginalia identifying Macau as the locus of origin, archival references to the Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino (AHU_CU_Índia, Cx. 14, D. 84; Cx. 1, D. 75), and attestations by municipal notaries and officials. The document offers critical insight into mid-seventeenth-century Luso-Asian administrative practice, jurisdictional conflict, ecclesiastical governance, and colonial legal culture. AHU-Arquivo Historico Ultramarino Volume 1- 074 |
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