En busca de la justicia: los agentes de corte y chancillerías de la Mesta en siglo XVIII

Abstract

Court and Chancellery agents arose from the medieval local Mestas (annual meeting of shepperds and owners of flocks) and became part of the Royal Cabin at the beginning of 18th Century. Those were the result of a greater processual activity in the various courts and in the fields. Such trade was not clearly defined because it was dragged by institutional flaws and the chancelleries’ opposition. The Bourbon kings reinforced such post in the recovering of Mestas as well as in the development of transhumance and they penned a detailed plan to discredit it, to remove employment in Granada, to lessen its duties and to only give it irrelevant internal affairs. It was slowly substituted in its duties and errands by the Attorney General of the State.