1. Why is there so much emphais on Morelos’s geneology in the first
part of the document?
2. What is the specific crime or crimes for which Morelos is being
charged?
3. What ideas were deemed dangerous by the Inquistors and why?
4. What seems incongruent in the fact that Morelos had two sons?
Do the Inquistors sound shocked?
From the Archivo Histórico de España, Madrid
Inquisición, Leg. 3592, no. 18
Submitted to the Señores of the Council of His Magesty of the Supreme Holy General Inquistition by Señor mManuel de Flores, Inquistor General of Mexico
The Audience (or hearing) before the Inquistors: In the Holy Office
of the Inquisition of Mexico on the 23 day of the month of November of
1815, in this, the morning Audience, the Señor Inquisitor
Dr. Don Manuel de Flores ordered that a prisoner be brought in from his
jail, whom, when present, was received with an oath according to the proper
form of law, under penalty of which he promised to speak the truth concerning
what he knew and was asked, in this Audience and in [any] others, until
the end of the case= Asked what his name was, from where he was a
natural [where he came from], what his age and occupation were, and when
he was imprisoned= He said his name is Don José María Morelos,
natural of the city of Valladolid [Spain], fifty years old, he has
been the priest in Caraquaro, that he was imprisoned the night of
the 21 of the current [month]= Parents= Manuel Morelos, his mother Juana
María Pabón= Paternal Grandparents José Morelos, and
that he did not remember what his grandmother’s name was= Maternal Grandparents
José Antonio Pabón, and the grandmother he thinks was named
Guadalupe Cárdenas= Paternal Uncles, he said that he didn’t have
any on the side of this fathers, and on his mother’s side Don Ramón
Pabón= Siblings of the Confessant: he said that he had Don
Nicolás Morelos and doña María Antonia Morelos= Children:
he said he has two Juan Neopmuceno and José= Asked what caste and
of what generation his Parents, Grandparents and the rest were- he said:
that they are Spaniards, on both sides= Asked: if he is Christian,
baptized and confirmed, if he goes to Mass, confesses and takes communion,
and if he complies with the precepts of Our Holy Mother Church, and if
he has the Bull of the Holy Crusade. He said: that he is a Christian, baptized
and confirmed, that he has gone to Mass, that he performed Mass when he
was a priest, and that after he has confessed and repented and he has complied
with the rest of the precepts and that doesn’t have the Bull of the Crusade=
He made the sign of the cross and crossed himself and responded to the
questions about doctrine that he was asked= Asked if he knew how to read
and write and if he has studied in any course of studies. He said: that
he knows how to read and write, and that he studied Grammar, Philosophy
and Moral Philosophy and no other course of studies= Asked for the discourse
of his life: He said he was born in Valladolid, and stayed there until
he was fourteen, and from there he went to Pazinpán, and there he
worked for eleven years as a peasant farmer, from where he returned
to Valladolid, and studied what he has already said, and there he was ordained
in each order up to Presbitero, that he was opposed by the parish priests
[for ordination], he was interim pastor in Choromuco for about a year,
and later they gave him possession of Caraguaro, where he was pastor until
the revolution began. = Asked if he knew the reason for his imprisionment.
He said: that he presumes it is for having commanded arms in the
insurrection, commissioned by the rebel Hidalgo to raise troops in the
tierra caliente, and southern coast, where he went when he left the pastorship
of Caraguaro on the 25 of October of 1810, through the pueblos of San Gerónimo,
Zacatula, Petatán, Tyepan, Toyac,, Coyuca, as far as Acalpulco,
Chilpancino, Tisla and Chilapa, until the Junta was called in August of
1811, and after, commissioned by the Junta with the office of General Lieutenant,
.. until he was taken prisoner by the Lieutenant of Patriots. ...
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