“Juan de Vergara and the Supplication of the Ordinance of the Marquis of Montesclaros, Buenos Aires, 1615â€

We begin the study of the text titled “Juan de Vergara, supplication of the ordinance of the marquis of Montesclaros, Buenos Aires, 1615,†in Levillier, Roberto (ed.), “Correspondence of the City of Buenos Aires with the Kings of Spain†, Volume 2, Madrid, Biblioteca del Congreso Argentino, 1918, pp. 7-15[1]. The main text is dated Buenos Aires, 17/2/1615. The letter from the porteño procurator was addressed to Governor François de Beaumont y Navarra, who in turn represented the Viceroy, Juan de Mendoza y Luna, the third Marquis of Montesclaros in the governorship, regarding his provisions from 1613 for the administration of the royal treasury of Buenos Aires. The written document is taken from Roberto Levillier’s edition of the “Correspondence of the City of Buenos Aires with the Kings of Spain†, and it is interesting to comment on the context of the publication of such an important historical study. According to Alejandra Pita González (2018), its editor was born on October 1, 1881, in France, to Henri Levillier and Ida Andremont, both French.