The Colegio de San Nicolás Obispo (Pátzcuaro 1540, Valladolid 1580)

A bishop's college in Michoacán whose royal patent of 1543 states in the crown's own words that it took the sons of legitimate Spaniards, mestizos, and some Indians "por ser Lenguas" so that its students might learn grammar with them and the Indians learn Castilian. Read here from the 1766 printing made by the college itself: free tuition, lectures owed to the Indians who had built the fabric, a rector its own students elected — and a footnote admitting Indians were not ordained for a century.