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[English Translation] 196 History of the Kingdom As for books, everyone can have them and use them as learned teachers. This is why the Senate, desiring that all the people indifferently according to the divine ordinance should be made capable of the precepts of religion and those of the police, insofar as this was useful, as much for their souls, as for the preservation of their persons, goods and faculties, ordered that in each parish there should be a Regent, lodged in a house made expressly, in which would be a large room large enough to contain all the children of the place, and also other rooms and would first show them to read well, written courtyard for his lodging, and that there they would first show them to read well, write, throw and calculate with some moral precepts, together the Catechism and principal points of the Christian faith, and if there was found among all his disciples some high spirit, rare and excellent, as much in memory, subtlety of mind, as judgment, he had to denounce him to the civil Centurion who gives notice to the President, and according to the mandate he receives, has him taken to the capital city, in which a large and famous College is established, where several Doctors of all faculties are maintained, where there is a Master who takes care of administering to the youth that |
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