The first municipal ordinances of Madrid in 1585.
Puerta del Sol
Illustration Guide Madrid, 1876
We have located a curious little book,
| THE MUNICIPAL ORDINANCES FIRST OF THE MADRID VILLA AND CUTTING (1585) BY Amezua AUGUSTINE AND G. DE MAYO COUNCILMAN THE EXCELLENCY. CITY MADRID MUNICIPAL PRINTING --- 1926 |
The author, Agustin G. of Amezua and May, reports:
| Few, confusing and contradictory are, indeed, the news that the early chroniclers Madrid left us much about the causes and how to be the transfer of the Court from Imperial Toledo in 1561, on the population and then perimeter covered our newly crowned Villa. The most explicit and detailed of all, Quintana Jerome (1), says that in 1563-year deputy for the move- Madrid had 2,520 houses, in which he says would, "according to good reasonable and prudent speech, 12000-14000 people. " (1) Quintana . - history of antiquity and greatness of Madrid . Madrid, 1629. |
The author also details that 1585, out of the presses of the widow of Alonso Gomez, dean and founder of the press in Madrid, the first known municipal ordinances Villa y Corte de Madrid really deserve this name, printed in a booklet of eight leaves folio, and whose home, entirely occupying the flat first, banners and adorned with the royal arms:
| PREGNO (sic) GENERAL FOR GOOD GOVERNACION DESTA COURT (Royal Crest) BY THE WIDOW OF ALONSO GOMEZ, YEAR 1585 MADRID MUNICIPAL PRINTING --- 1926 |
Seventy-nine chapters composed or ordinances this proclamation, and if today we surprise and amaze the municipal current problems, we can see that keeps some similarities with the old . We note a few:
| Women in Love 8. "Otrosí send any woman in love, whore, or recoil, is daring to have, or have pimps, under penalty of one hundred delimit and losing the clothes we had, and have no suspects than females under forty years, so penalties contained in the laws. " |
Illustration old Madrid, 1888
| Winemakers and bartenders to sell wine in their inns. 18. "Otrosí send the bodegoneros and ayan tauerneros that have had and try to sell wine and bring to this court as sold in inns and tavern often pub.mente for positions of Lords Mayors DHOS Dell or any people would buy it but do not eat at home, otherwise define and exile Desta cient cutting and wastage of bino. " That the officers did not walk wasteland. 57. "Otrosí mandate that all government workers tailors, knitters, cordoneros, silversmiths, carpenters, settle to work and work at home with their teachers in the DHOS, their trades fair and moderate prices and which are not walk without working Baldios or settle the DHOS. occupations or leave the court in the second day and unidentified or enter it with five leagues in two years time, or risk being AUIDO by bagamundos and being thrown to the gallows as such. " |
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Illustration old Madrid, 1888
| Do not sell in the flea market sheep more than they cost them to buyers who sold what remains over them. 64. "Otrosí buyer mandate that no person or steward or any other quality that is to be brave to buy sheep or a lamb or other meat in this town flea market or any other part, standing or dead, to render it to reuender and can only buy what you need for probision Obiero their homes, and if their remains over part of the dha. ouieren of meat and what price to sell uendan that they would go out and no more, under penalty of one hundred annotates and banishment from the wastage of the court and applied the meat in half by DeNunzio and the other half to the poor real jail Desta court. " |
| Taverners have no taverns or eating peas. 70. "Otrosí tauernero not mandate that any court or village Desta tauernera take or agree to take their canes or taverns or three houses to the round of their own still life to any person or stew to eat for what you uender by ynconvenientes Dell could go and do so and meet, on pain of a hundred court Desta define and exile, and so the same penalty to send people DHOS bodegoneros and peas to eat that do not have hos taverns or eating peas in DHAS taverns or three houses around. " |
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