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| | Studies in Medieval Spanish Frontier History, Chapter 5, The Andalusian Municipal Mestas in the 14th-16th Centuries: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) |
 | | All three comarcal Mestas were bound by the Ordenamiento of the capital, and held their semi-annual assemblies in the same seasons of the year according to a cycle of fortnightly intervals that allowed the alcaldes de la Mesta of Sevilla, accompanied by their escribano, to preside over each of them in turn. |
 | | Required to be present at all mestas, and the daily hearing of pleitos by the alcaldes, the escribano had as his principal function the maintenance of the legally valid record of all that occurred on these occasions, or on any others where business of the Mesta was transacted. |
 | | The alcaldes of the Mesta, indeed, for all their sweeping executive and judicial powers over the pastoral industry, were held strictly to account by the cabildo which penalized them heavily, under a fixed schedule of fines, for absenteeism, neglect of duties, or malfeasance of any kind. |
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