Constituciones sinodales del Arzobispado de Lima (1613 and 1636)

The synodal code of the largest archdiocese in South America, given by Lobo Guerrero in 1613 and completed by Arias de Ugarte in 1636. It bars church visitors and their notaries from charging Indians anything at all, binds those who overcharge to restore double within a month, orders edicts published in the Indians' own language — and orders the same Indians to be catechised in Quechua rather than their mother tongues. Reprinted at Lima in 1864 because it was still in force.