Cabildo - History Lab

Evolution of the rate of rent for the fortunes of Dehesa de La Laguna (1712-1769).

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:48 +0000

The generalisation of long-term leases in the 17th century led to a relaxation of the pressure on the Cabildo’s tenants of the dehesa. The behaviour of agrarian rent in the middle of the century shows a moderate fall in the rate in the last two leases, which is not in line with the national upward trend from 1754-1774. The lease system inaugurated in 1712 maintained long leases fixed in six-year periods, but spurred strong competition in the auctions. For the 18th century we do not have the sown area because we do not know the number of suertes dedicated to private pastures: the calculations are based on cultivated area. Despite the discrepancy in the indicators, the income per unit of sown area did not reach the extreme values that occurred in the middle of the 16th century, despite the agricultural improvement and the increase in the agricultural product. The Cabildo managed to increase its gross income compared to the most lucrative auctions of the 16th century, which was really important for the corporation. In the mid-16th century, the income from the dehesa amounted to 4,000 bushels of wheat, and the auctions of 1712-1769 were between 5,315 and 6,782 bushels, without taking into account the exaggerated decline of the 1728 auction.

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Typology of testamentary beneficiaries according to the groups of the Chapter of the Cathedral of Murcia (1743-1820)

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:13 +0000

All the clergy did not have the same concerns or strategies of social reproduction. The resource shows us the differences in the wills of the cathedral chapter of Murcia between 1743 and 1820. Although there were common tendencies, such as favouring the family lineage through patrimony against the moralistic treatises of the Church, the strength with which these policies of inheritance transmission were perpetuated differed according to the ecclesiastical grade. The most family-conscious group in the chapter was the Dignities. The author identifies the trajectories of each of the members and reveals that, in contrast to the traditional idea of belonging to the nobiliary estate, and thus being imbued with the idea of lineage, the members were made up of families who had recently joined the local oligarchies in a process of social ascent. Their arrival in the upper strata gave rise to the need to consolidate their position there, so that nurturing the family through patrimony was one of their concerns. The rest of the groups, both canons and racioneros, also underwent this process. Many of these family estates led to the entry of another generation into the clerical estate, a fundamental issue within the strategies of social reproduction and perpetuation of the lineage.

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Amount and distribution of the mandas to the Church of the prebendados of the cathedral of Murcia (1743-1820)

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:13 +0000

The concerns of the transmission of the patrimony for the members of the cathedral chapter of Murcia were their own families. Between 1743 and 1820, 52% of the main beneficiaries of the testamentary mandates of the chapter testify to this. However, the moralist treatises and the doctrine of the Church tried to ensure that the distribution favoured the ecclesiastical institution itself and the poor. How was the distribution and amount of the mandates for these items? As a minority with respect to the total inheritance, the main beneficiary was the cathedral factory with 37,700 reales. The hospital of San Juan de Dios also benefited with 13,220 reales and the Casa de la Misericordia with 9,870 reales. All these institutions had in common the assistance to the poor. Below 9,000 reales, we find ecclesiastical entities: convents, parishes or confraternities, the latter with the lowest contribution: 528.

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