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(BRAZIL).
John IV (João) Royal Order.
Removing the powers of the Inquisition over New Christians, in order to encourage investment in the General Trade Company of Brazil.
3 pages. Unbound. Folio.
(Lisbon): 1649
Rare. Not located OCLC, Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, nor in Martinho da Fonseca, or Visconde da Trindade. The Jesuit priest and diplomat Father Antonio Vieira (1608-97), as a member of the Royal Council to the King of Portugal, understood that the preservation of trade with Brazil depended on strong financial capital. He advised that this objective would best be attained by the creation of a trading firm founded with the capital of New Christians. However for these businessmen to feel secure in investing in what was to be the Companhia General para o Estado do Brazil, Vieira insisted they be exempt from confiscation or discrimination, even if they had previously been convicted as Judaizers. The Holy Office railed against the use of "tainted" New Christian money in the Brazil Company project since the abolition of its confiscatory powers, threatened the economic base for its continued existence. Yet Vieira's views prevailed and this Royal Order was issued in the following terms: “I deem it well and it pleases me that the goods and property of the people of that nation [New Christian] of whatever quality they may be, of all my kingdoms and possessions, both native-born and foreigner, who should be arrested or condemned by the Holy Office for the said crimes of heresy, apostasy, or Judaism, shall not be sequestered and inventoried at the time of arrest, nor shall they be incorporated into my royal fisc at the time of the condemnatory sentences … [for the reason that] … the same businessmen would form a Company in which they and the other vassals of this Crown may enter with such capital and property as they can afford, on account of which, without any other expense of my royal treasury, thirty-six galleons will go to sea … giving guard to the vessels and property that go and come from the said conquests [Brazil] and will keep them secure from the enemy, with evident utility to the kingdom and its vassals and to the duties of my customshouses."
