This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...conceived the idea that their oflicers, by too great concessions, were deceiving them. They spread the alarm, and demanded that the war should be continued. They demanded, moreover, that they should be led to Bogota. Aroused by the attitude of the crowd, the archbishop urged the immediate approval of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...conceived the idea that their oflicers, by too great concessions, were deceiving them. They spread the alarm, and demanded that the war should be continued. They demanded, moreover, that they should be led to Bogota. Aroused by the attitude of the crowd, the archbishop urged the immediate approval of the capitulaciones by the commissioners; and when this was accomplished, the document was sent to the audiencia. This body confirmed the commissioners' approval, thus allaying the popular agitation. 10 This document, Terto de his capitulaciones redactadas por los comuneros para presentarlas al comandante general, is printed in Briceiio, Los Comuneros, 121-137. It is dated June 4, 1781, and is signed by Juan Francisco Berbeo. These capitulaciones were approved by the audiencia June 7, at eleven o'clock in the night; they were confirmed by oath on the plain of Mortifio before 2000 insurgents, the archbishop sanctifying the agreement by a religious service. The multitude dissolved the same day. Sixty copies of the agreement were made for the sixty cabildos that had supported the movement. On the 15th it was published at Bogota. Vergara y Velasco, Tezto, 210. 11 Bricefio, Los Comuneros, 64, 139. Groot aflirms that through the influence of the archbishop the capitulaciones, or the terms of agreement, were approved without modifications, "but at the same meeting the members of the commission signed a secret protest declaring that, having given their approval, it was done under the force of circumstances in order to avoid greater evils, and that consequently they held the agreements void as obtained by force when they had no force with which to sustain the dignity of the government."" Yet in the face of this attitude, ...
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Very good. 8vo, hardcover. No dj, black cloth. Vg+ condition. NOT ex-library. Very slight rubbing to spine, covers and contents clean, no marking or writing. 440 pp.