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 THE SUPREMACY OF THE MESTA'S PASTURAGE PRIVILEGES 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. Posesión 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 THE COLLAPSE OF THE MESTA'S PASTURAGE PRIVILEGES Pasturage legislation of Philip II. Decrees of 1566, 1580, and 1582. Futile agrarian programme. Chancillerías 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 C. A ROYAL CONCESSION REGARDING STRAYS, 1304 D. COMMISSION OF AN ENTREGADOR-IN-CHIEF, 1417 F. PROCEDURE IN THE COURT OF AN ENTREGADOR, 1457 G. ROYAL INSTRUCTIONS TO ENTREGADORES, 1529. H. CREDENTIALS OF A MESTA REPRESENTATIVE, 1528 388 SHEEP TAX DECREE OF FERDINAND AND ISABELLA, 1488 218 Bib. Nac. Madrid. Bull. Ord. Milit. Cárdenas. Colmeiro. Bullarium Ordinis Militiae de Alcantara. Ortega, Manuel Colmeiro. Historia de la Economía poli- Concordia de 1783. Memorial ajustado del Expediente de Concordia 2 vols. Cortes. Cortes de los antiguos Reinos de León y de Castilla. Expediente de 1771. Memorial ajustado hecho en Virtud de Decreto del González. Larruga. Muñoz. Nov. Recop. Nueva Recop. Paris Bib. Nat. Vicente Paino y Hurtado de Estremadura y el Colección de Privilegios, Novisima Recopilación (codified by Charles IV, Nueva Recopilación (codified by Philip II, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Andrés Diez Navarro. Quaderno de Leyes y 69-70 127 128 79 132 |