SR#757 — 1660 I [selected images]

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Original catalogue title: 1660 I. Catalogue: https://felixarchief.antwerpen.be/archievenoverzicht/167492 Authored selected-act title: SR#757 — Maria Bloys: power to recover her brother Francisco Bloys’s Angola estate (29 July 1660) Antwerp municipal record of a Spanish power granted by Maria Bloys, daughter of Francisco Bloys and Maria de la Chambre, concerning the inheritance of her brother Francisco Bloys, understood/reported to have died in San Pablo de Assumpcion in Angola. She authorizes the rector and procurator of the Jesuit college there to recover and realize estate goods, collect proceeds and remit money to her. The complete act occupies fols. 40r–40v: scan 042 right, followed by scan 043 left. Two full spreads retain the preceding and following unrelated Dutch acts as context. The native closing date reads “vigesima nona Julij. 1660” (29 July 1660), independently confirmed. Denucé, Afrika in de XVIde eeuw en de handel van Antwerpen (1937), printed p. 58 / PDF page 56, instead prints “op 20 Juli”. Preserve the discrepancy. This is separate from the unresolved January–June conflict for the 1669 N#3031 act. The formula “bienes, mercaderias, y effectos de qualquier genero” is generic estate authority, not an inventory. No Brazil, Bahia, Lisbon, Emmanuel Mourau or explicit enslaved-property identification was observed in this complete two-page act. Retain the brother’s death qualification “a lo que se entiende”. PARTIAL REVIEW: targeted native review of the complete act for boundaries, date, identity and operative meaning; not a full diplomatic transcription. Cancellations/interlineations and unrelated Dutch context have not been fully reviewed. Zero completed full-page/spread reviews to add. Representation: two pixel-exact lossless PNG container conversions from unchanged original TIFF full spreads, in order 042, 043. All decoded RGB pixels, native 5919 x 4502 resolution, orientation and ICC profiles are preserved. Original TIFFs, earlier JPEG alternatives and all notes remain preserved; the JPEG alternatives, context cover001 and proof crops are excluded from this upload. PNG pHYs rounds to 299.9994 dpi while exact 300 dpi resolution remains in eXIf. This is a selected portion of the volume, not complete volume coverage. No automatic transcription or translation requested.

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[Smetsers Cano 4 st ita Ivan Kiedong vnd ... Jacques van Lidiron ... Est Vol: 13: fol: 360.] Sr. Xbregen ... Charles ... liar tegenwoordig ... Aelmoessiniers deser stadt voor ... name van Sr. ... Jan Baptista ... ... op ... ende ... Sr. Pieter ... tegenwoordich proprietaris van ... gevonden ... ende ... ... die Jacques van Lidiron ... Sr. ... april anno ... ... Antoni Claessen ... ende ... ... Sr. Joris ... algier, ... ... Sr. Joris ... ... algier ... ende ... ... Jo. Maria Claessen ... ... Andries ... ... Antoni Claessen, ... ende ... ... ende ... ... ende ... ... voor ... ... ende ... ... ende ... ... ende ... ... ende ... ... ende ... 40 A todos quantos la presente carta vieren, o leer oyeren nos los Burgomaestros Eschavines y Consejo de la ciudad de Amberes del Ducado de Brabante embiamos salud, Hazemos saber y certificamos, que doña Maria Bloys, vezina de la dha ciudad es hija legitima de Francisco Bloys, y de doña Maria de la Chambre defuntos, y hermana de Francisco Bloys, el qual a lo que se entiende, murio en el Reyno de Angola en la ciudad de San Pablo de Assumpcion, Mas hazemos fe que ante nos parecio presente oy dia fecho de lo presente, la dha doña Maria Bloys, la qual dixo que da y otorgava y otorga aceptando la herencia del dho su hermano Francisco Bloys, dava y otorgava, da y otorga todo su poder cumplido libre lleneno y bastante, como de derecho se requiere y mas puede y deve valer a los [muy] Reverendos Padres Rector y Procurator del Colegio de los Padres Jhesuitas en la dha ciudad de San Pablo de Assumpcion, juntos y cada uno dellos insolidum, especialmente, Para que en nombre y de parte de la dha otorgante, y como ella misma, representando su persona propria, como heredera del dho su hermano, puedan y cada uno dellos pueda recibir cobrar haver y tomar para si todos y quales quier bienes mercaderias, y effetos de qualquier genero que sean, dexados por fin y muerte del dho su hermano, los tales bienes y effetos vender y beneficiar, y cobrar su procedido, de lo que recivieren dar y otorgar la carta de pago finyquito con cession y traspasso, las quales