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Henry Albert Monday collection relating to Mexico, 1522-1935

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BOX 1-5 REEL 1-4 Viceregal Administration, 1522-1875
Official papers generated by the civil government during the colonial period, or related to it. The subgroups are ordered by the importance of their association with the viceregal authority. The series is divided into bandos and cédulas, grants and permits, administration, the affairs of the corregimiento of Mexico City, reports, relaciones de méritos, patents of nobility, inductions into honorary orders, temporalidades, and the affairs of Indian villages.
Within each subgroup, the items are ordered chronologically or alphabetically.
BOX 1 REEL 1 Bandos and cédulas, 1680-1821
BOX 1 REEL 1 Grants and permits, 1568-1807
BOX 1 REEL 1 Administration
BOX 1 REEL 1 1738-1809
BOX 1 REEL 1 Civil appointments, 1684-1819
BOX 1 REEL 1 Military promotions, (contains multiple records for Jose García de Berdeja), 1786-1821
BOX 1 REEL 1 Villanueva, Francisco de, 1760-1806
BOX 1 REEL 1 Mexico City, Mexico (corregimiento)
BOX 1 REEL 1 Abasto de Carne, pensiones, 1726-1749)
BOX 2 REEL 1-2 Flood control (Desague) projects, 1553-1637
BOX 2 REEL 1-2 Laws and privileges, 1522-1775
BOX 2 REEL 1-2 Paving and lighting, 1790-1795
BOX 2 REEL 1-2 Posíto, income, 1771-1787
BOX 2 REEL 1-2 Smallpox epidemics, 1798-1814
BOX 2 REEL 1-2 Taxes on cloth and pulque, 1783
BOX 3 REEL 2-3 Reports
BOX 3 REEL 2-3 Cultivation of flax and hemp, 1783-1786
BOX 3 REEL 2-3 Trade, monopolies, and taxes, 1732-1816
BOX 3 REEL 2-3 Relaciones de Méritos
BOX 3 REEL 2-3 1522-1875, Cuautémoc family genealogy
BOX 3 REEL 2-3 1561, Pedro de Aguilar
BOX 3 REEL 2-3 1577, Juan de la Serna
BOX 3 REEL 2-3 1580, Alonso de las Casas
BOX 3 REEL 2-3 1673, Francisco Rayado de Herrera
BOX 3 REEL 2-3 1753, Joseph Caballero y Esquivel
BOX 3 REEL 2-3 1765, Andre de Menducil y Arriola
BOX 3 REEL 2-3 1789-1821, Conde de Casa de Agreda
BOX 4 REEL 3 Patents of nobility
BOX 4 REEL 3 1673, Antonio de Tapia y Sossa
BOX 4 REEL 3 1779, Ramon Zazo y Ortega
BOX 4 REEL 3 Honorary orders, inductions, 1745-1816
BOX 4 REEL 3 Temporalidades, expulsion of the Jesuits from Puebla, 1767
BOX 4 REEL 3 Indian villages
BOX 4 REEL 3 Elections, 1688-1805
BOX 4 REEL 3 Petition, 1660
BOX 4 REEL 3 Property transfers, 1562-1703
BOX 4 REEL 3 Titles
BOX 4 REEL 3 San Luis de Jilotepec
BOX 4 REEL 3 Ramo de Congregaciones, 1578-1790
BOX 4 REEL 3 Viceregal archives
BOX 4 REEL 3 Index
BOX 5 REEL 4 Inventory
(2 vols.)
BOX 6-10 REEL 4-8 Audiencia, 1547-1805
Material related to colonial law and court cases divided into four subgroups: laws, regulations, petitions and court orders, and legal actions. The subgroup of petitions and court orders contains fragmentary pieces of court cases, while the subgroup legal actions contains entire cases.
Items are arranged chronologically or alphabetically.
BOX 6 REEL 4 Laws
BOX 6 REEL 4 Laws of Castile, 1547
BOX 7 REEL 5 Corpus Iuris Civilis, 1716
(vol. 1)
BOX 8
REEL 6
(vol. 2)
BOX 9 REEL 7 Recopilación de Leyes de Indias, 1756
(vols. 1-2)
BOX 10
REEL 8
(vol. 3)
BOX 10 REEL 8 Addition to law on privacy, 1796
BOX 10 REEL 8 Regulations on measurement of land, 1760
BOX 10 REEL 8 Petitions and court orders, 1591-1805
BOX 10 REEL 8 Legal actions
BOX 10 REEL 8 Condes del Valle de Orizaba, 1650-1738
BOX 10 REEL 8 Convent of La Concepción, Puebla, 1707
BOX 11-37 REEL 9-33 Catholic Church, 1530-1929
Material generated by or related to the Catholic Church arranged as follows: Archbishorpric of Mexico, Bishorpric of Guadalajara, Bishorpric of Nuevo Leon, Bishorpric of Puebla, church-state relations, cofradias, Inquisition, and religious orders. The latter subgroup is further subdivided into Augustinian Order, Bethlemite Order, Casa of the Sacred Heart, Dominican Order in Puebla, and Franciscans in Mexico.
The section on Dominican Order in Puebla, the largest in the collection, is arranged by specific institutions. All other subseries are arranged alphabetically.
BOX 11 REEL 9 Archbishopric of Mexico
BOX 11 REEL 9 Pastoral letters and decrees
BOX 11 REEL 9 1754-1782
BOX 11 REEL 9 1788-1851
BOX 11 REEL 9 Administration
BOX 11 REEL 9 Convents, 1670-1842
BOX 11 REEL 9 Licenses and appointments, 1530-1864
BOX 11 REEL 9 Cathedral Chapter
BOX 11 REEL 9 Career, Jose María Alva, 1813-1878
BOX 11 REEL 9 Finances, 1715-1788
BOX 11 REEL 9 Reports, eighteenth century
BOX 11 REEL 9 Rules for ringing bells, eighteenth century
(3 vols.)
BOX 12 REEL 10 Liturgy, choir book, 1602
BOX 13 REEL 10 Sacramental administration
BOX 13 REEL 10 Devotions, 1742-1838
BOX 13 REEL 10 Dispensations, 1772-1814
BOX 13 REEL 10 Indulgences, 1723-1871
BOX 13 REEL 10 Marriage licenses, 1775-1778
BOX 13 REEL 10 Judicial
BOX 13 REEL 10 Foundation of obra pia, 1775
BOX 13 REEL 10 Petitions, orders, and investigations, 1564-1811
BOX 13 REEL 10 Suit over nonpayment of capellanía
BOX 13 REEL 10 1754
BOX 13 REEL 10 1835
BOX 13 REEL 10 Suit over will of Francisco Ruiz de Tagle, 1710
BOX 14 REEL 10-11 Pastoral visits of Francisco de Aguir y Seijas, 1687-1688
BOX 14 REEL 10-11 Parish of San Jacinto Istapaluca
BOX 14 REEL 10-11 Prenuptial declarations, 1692-1707
BOX 14 REEL 10-11 Register of burials, 1670-1703
BOX 14 REEL 10-11 Bishopric of Guadalajara, sermon, 1821
BOX 14 REEL 10-11 Bishopric of Nuevo Leon, circular on tithes, 1794
BOX 14 REEL 10-11 Bishopric of Puebla
BOX 10 REEL 10-11 Pastoral letter and decree, 1708-1834
BOX 14 REEL 10-11 Licenses and appointments, 1608-1811
BOX 14 REEL 10-11 Cathedral Chapter, 1649
BOX 14 REEL 10-11 Judicial
BOX 14 REEL 10-11 Nonpayment of capellanía, 1772-1810
BOX 14 REEL 10-11 Convent of Santa Clara, 1795-1804
BOX 15 REEL 11-12 Colegio de San Pablo, 1712-1806[?] (contains informaciones de familaturas, 1712-1765, and a defense of the curriculum, 1806[?])
BOX 15 REEL 11-12 Church and state, broadsides, poster, and letters, 1926-1929
BOX 15 REEL 11-12 Cofradias
BOX 15 REEL 11-12 Immaculate Conception, Cuernavaca, 1689-1701
BOX 15 REEL 11-12 Our Lady of the Rosary, Mexico City, Mexico, 1774-1775
BOX 15 REEL 11-12 Precious Blood of Jesus, Balladolid, 1793
BOX 15 REEL 11-12 St. Francis Xavier, Mexico City, Mexico
BOX 15 REEL 11-12 Constitutions, 1662-1854
BOX 15 REEL 11-12 Book of Acts, 1844-1863
BOX 15 REEL 11-12 St. Ignatius Loyola, Mexico City, Mexico, 1814-1837
BOX 15 REEL 11-12 St. Mary Virgin, Mexico City, Mexico, 1760-1762
BOX 16 REEL 12 Holy Name of Jesus, Mexico City, Mexico, 1758-1857
BOX 17 REEL 12-13 Inquisition
BOX 17 REEL 12-13 Administration, 1571-1790
BOX 17 REEL 12-13 Forbidden books
BOX 17 REEL 12-13 Circulars, 1759
BOX 17 REEL 12-13 Index, 1790
BOX 17 REEL 12-13 Investigations, 1604-1819
BOX 17 REEL 12-13 Lithographs
BOX 17 REEL 12-13 Rules and procedures, 1560-1753
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