CONTENTS

PART IV —PASTURAGE

CHAPTER XV

Early Pasturage Problems.............297

The pasturage privileges of migrants in Mediterranean countries. Pas-
turage customs of mediaeval Castile. Commons. Enclosures. Defor-
estation. Sheep walks. Pastoral industry not a menace to agriculture
and enclosures in the Middle Ages.

CHAPTER XVI

The Supremacy of the Mesta’s Pasturage Privileges . 314
Agrarian England of the early Tudors compared with agrarian Castile of
Ferdinand and Isabella. Pastoral mercantilism. Enclosures in England
and in Castile. The pastoral policy of the Catholic Kings. Deforesta-
tion. PosesiOn or perpetual leasing of pasturage. Collective bargaining
for pasturage by Mesta members. Agriculture vs. grazing in the reign of
Charles V. Growth of the non-migratory pastoral industry. Repres-
sive measures against agriculture.

CHAPTER XVII

The Collapse of the Mesta’s Pasturage Privileges . 331
Pasturage legislation of Philip II. Decrees of 1566, 1580, and 1582.
Futile agrarian programme. Chancillerfas defend agriculture and en-
closures. Opposition of royal creditors and others to the privileges of
the Mesta. Exploitation of the lands of the Military Orders. Extrava-
gant pretensions of the Decree of 1633. Spread of enclosures during the
seventeenth century. Mesta propaganda against agriculture. Collapse
of ancient pasturage privileges in the eighteenth century. Culmination
of the enclosure movement.

CONCLUSION

APPENDICES

A. Ordinances of the Town Mesta of Ûbeda, 1376 . 361

B. ExtractsfromtheordinancesofthetownMesta
of Granada, 1520................364

C. A Royal Concession Regarding Strays, 1304 . . 368

D. Commission of an Entregador-In-Chief, 1417 . . 371

E. Exemption of the Town of Buitrago from the

Jurisdiction of Entregadores, 1304.......374

F. Procedure in the Court of an Entregador, 1457 . 376
G. Royal Instructions to Entregadores, 1529 . . . 382
H. Credentials of a Mesta Representative, 1528 . 388
I. Ordinances of the Servicio y Montazgo or Royal

Sheep Toll, 1457................391

J. Royal Instructions to a Sheep Tax Inquisitor,
1489......................398

BIBLIOGRAPHY..................401

GLOSSARY....................423

INDEX......................429

ILLUSTRATIONS

Mesta Charter of 1525   ...........Frontispiece

Map showing Highways, Toll Points, and Pasturage
Areas

Urn used in Mesta Elections

Sheep Tax Decree of Ferdinand and Isabella, 1488

Mesta Charter of 1443

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