摘要
The records from the establishment of Franciscan convents in New Spain under the Bourbon reign, shows a great variety of arguments about how the convents could be used. Aside from being necessary for religious purposes, we found that they were also important for civilian aims, for the localities where they were founded, and for the Crown. Nevertheless fiscal Ram車n de Posada, among others, made efforts to force these convents to serve only as religious institutions. Los expedientes para la fundaci車n de conventos franciscanos en Nueva Espa a bajo los Borbones, muestran la multiplicidad de argumentos de su utilidad. Necesarios por motivos religiosos, pero tambi谷n civiles; tanto para las localidades donde se instalaban como para la Corona. M芍s hubo esfuerzos por reducirlos a entidades exclusivamente religiosas, por parte sobre todo del fiscal Ram車n de Posada.