El juramento de la ciudad de México a Luis I de Borbón. El testimonio histórico del gremio de plateros, 1724

Abstract

The present text analyzes a little-known episode of Indian loyalty to the spanish crown, which was the oath and celebration that the city of Mexico made to Luis I de Bourbon as “king and lord of the Spain’s” in 1724. Case practically unknown in the novohispana historiography and that for the first time is presented from the historical testimony of the political economic power that left the guild of silversmiths of Mexico, which we would consider the main finding of this investigation. Handwritten text that could not be understood in this work if we did not take the public party, as a formula of sociability, and the element of loyalty and obedience, as part of the social political pact between the Hispanic corporations with the new monarch.