D. Fr. Estevão de Jesus Maria, da extincta Ordem dos Menores Reformados, por mercê de Deos, e da Sancta Sé Apostolica, Bispo d'Angra e mais ilhas dos Açores …. A todas as pessôas tanto ecclesiasticas, como seculares …. [Begins]: Constando a Sua Magestade a Rainha as funestas contestaçoens ….

[colophon] Lisbon, Na Typ. da Sociedade Propagadora dos Conhecimentos Uteis, 1839.. FIRST EDITION. 4°, later marbled wrappers (splitting at spine). Caption title. Some soiling. Small white paper tag with serrated edges, presumed shelf mark in later ink manuscript on lower inner corner of rear wrapper. 7 pp. *** FIRST EDITION?; there is a folio edition, same year and printer, consisting of a single leaf. No priority has been established. The Bishop of Angra announces that Rev. Bernardo do Canto Machado de Faria e Maia of Ponta Delgada has been put in charge of unifying religious practices in the diocese and of instructing the clergy in the performance of their duties. This was an attempt at reconciliation after years of conflict between liberal and absolutist elements within the clergy in the Azores.Frei Estevão de Jesus Maria, O.F.M. (Mafra, 1786-Angra do Heroísmo,1871), was Bishop of Angra from 1827 to 1870. However, due to the 1828-1834 civil war, during which time he adhered to the cause of the absolutist D. Miguel I, he only assumed effective government of his diocese in 1840, and even so, until 1859 was in virtual exile on the Island of São Miguel due to liberal sentiment against him in the Episcopal city of Angra.*** Not in Innocêncio. Canto, Bibliotheca açoriana 680; for published pastorals by this author, see items 679-707; also volume II, items 673--93. Not in Canto, Inventario; see 2637 for a lot of 7 pastorals by the author. Porbase locates a single copy, in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Not located in Jisc. KVK (51 databases searched) locates only the copy cited by Porbase. Not located in NUC.