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BIBLIOGRAPHY
41. Salanova, Pedro. Apuntamiento рог orden . . . sobre tributes.
Eighteenth-century definitions of various taxes. Ms. 13126.
42. Cano, Alonso. Papel . . . sobre el origen de la Cabana real . . .
1764. Ms. 17708. Another copy in the British Museum; also printed in
Biblioteca general de Historia, Ciencias, Artes . . . i, pp. 5-32 (Madrid,
1834). A florid defence of the Mesta and of the sheep industry, as opposed
to agriculture.
43. Fueros y Privilegios de Câceres. Ms. 430. An important compila-
tion of documents from the town archive of Câceres, one of the leading
places in the western pasturage region. The volume (683 pp.) is indexed in
Barrantes, i, pp. 384-388 (see above, No. 6). Many of these documents
were printed in UUoa y Golfin’s collection of the same name, which appeared,
without title page or concluding pages, about 1676. Only four copies of
this Ulloa reprint are known to exist. Many of the documents have to
do with the Mesta.
44. Ordenanzas rurales de Sevilla. Ms. D-8ι. A fourteenth-century col-
lection of 122 articles.
5. Other National Spanish Archives
The scarcity of material on the Mesta outside its own collection
(see above, p. 404) is especially noticeable in the national Spanish
archives not discussed thus far.
45. In the great archive at Simancas, besides the small group of
manuscripts on the royal sheep tax already mentioned (see No. 23),
there are a few items in the collection called Diversos de Castilla,
indexed in 1908 by Julian Paz (titles numbered 117, 909, and 1643).
46. The Archivo de Fomento at Alcala de Henares is given over
to administrative materials of the period since 1700, with a few docu-
ments of the previous century. The only sources available there are
in the Secci6n de Hacienda (Treasury), which has one packet of 67
documents on renta de Ianas (royal income from wool, 1699-1819),
and a few items on the royal sheep tax or serυicio y montazgo.
47. The Archivo de la Corona de Aragon (Barcelona) contains a
few documents on the sheep industry in that kingdom during the
reign of James II (1291-1327), in the series marked Escrituras de
Jayme II.
6. Spanish Town Archives
Because of the constant contact between the Mesta and the towns,
the importance of the archives of the latter can be understood at once.
A systematic search was made in the town collections in those parts
of the country where the Mesta had been particularly active. In
most cases it was found that the more important documents existed
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in duplicate in the Mesta archive, but many others were unearthed
(in some cases, literally so) which amply repaid the trouble taken.
The town archives are an almost unknown field of research in Spanish
historiography. There are signs, however, that this may not long
be the case. (See Ballesteros, Cuestiones histôricas, Madrid, 1913»
pp. ɪ97-201, for a brief compilation of references and comments on
local archives.) The three most useful and best arranged of these
local collections are those at Cuenca, Burgos, and Madrid, named
in the order of merit. A secondary group comprises Câceres, Plasen-
cia, and Leon.
48. Badajoz. Has much material on Paino y Hurtado, who as a deputy
from Badajoz led the fight against the Mesta in the eighteenth century.
The minutes of the town council begin about 1570, and touch upon the
Mesta occasionally in connection with local pastures.
49. Burgos. Has a serviceable card index, chronological and by subject
matter. One of the most orderly and accessible town archives in Spain.
Its accounts are complete from ea. 1375 to the present time, which makes
them the oldest series of any seen in the course of this investigation, and
perhaps the oldest in Spain. Palencia claims to have the next oldest.
50. Câceres. See above, No. 43, for lists of the important documents in
this archive from the reign of Isabella, 1474-1504, many of which deal with
the Mesta. The town accounts, Cuentas Antiguos1 begin in 1503. This
archive has several documents on pasturage which date from 1280 on. The
town ordinances of 1477, several bundles of manuscripts on waste lands,
pastures, and woodland (marked baldios, dehesas, and montes, respectively)
also proved fruitful.
51. Cuenca. The most useful local archive in Spain, from the point of
view of the present subject, with regard both to the quality of its materials
and to their arrangement. As centre of one of the four districts or quadrillas
of the Mesta, Cuenca was always prominent in the pastoral history of the
country. A large sixteenth-century Becerro or compilation contains copies of
all documents in the archive before that time. The originals of these are
obtainable at once. They date from the year 1300 and cover all phases of
the Mesta,s activities, especially the functions of its entregadores.
52. Guernica. The ancient capital of Viscaya and of the two adjoining
provinces. Though containing little on sheep raising or rural conditions,
the archive in the Casa de Juntas is a most valuable repository of materials
on local government in the north coast region. There are ms. indices of
smaller and less accessible town archives of the vicinity. The accounts
begin in the late fourteenth century.
53. Huesca. The centre of industrial activity in mediaeval Aragon. Its
archive, which is rich in gild materials, has been described in Ricardo del
Arco’s Apuntes sobre el antiguo Rtgimen . . . de Huesca (Huesca, 1910).
See No. 104. The Biblioteca Provincial of the town also has some ms. ma-
terials upon fourteenth-century prices. Cf. Revista de Huesea, i, pp. 159 S.