For Antonio HERRERA GARCIA Revista
"Cuenca", No. 17, First semester 1980
"Cuenca", No. 17, First semester 1980
 |
| Magazine "Watershed." Click the image to go to the original |
Tomas Lopez's attempt fell on it and this rich documentation is filed, preceding course, in time we do not know, your management and binding by provinces, however, by confusion, ignorance or neglect the answers to certain places were included with those of other provinces, which obviously did not belong, and this presented to us many cases. On the other hand, the writer, who has a little heart allocated between Sevilla and Cuenca, when involved in research on Andalusian themes, has emerged a document Cuenca, has always taken note the same case at some point that might have some validity.
The previous two conditions are stirred when consulting the volumes relating to the western provinces of Andalusia in the unborn mented volumes Dictionary of Tomás López: Among the people of the province including the relationship I found Córdoba Priego, Cuenca, probably by confusion with the people of the same name of Córdoba ( 2 ), and I thought interesting transcription and publication, first, for the intrinsic value of the document itself, filled with news of all kinds, as you can check immediately, and by the aforementioned circumstance of his situation "extraterritorial" which would make difficult to locate or even could be ignored if undertaken the study of these relations of peoples belonging to the province of Cuenca, a study which, incidentally it would be extremely valuable and revealing, two centuries away from the "Relations" of Philip II.
We will not enter here in the analysis of the document, since this is not the case and, on the other hand, his study, as we propose, should be embedded within an overall consideration of all parts of the province. We just want to emphasize that its author, Fr. Juan de Saavedra, appears to man aware and inclined to know the traditions and local historical information and, consequently, this relationship Priego is among those listed as more carefully and wisely answered, but others are more extensive. Finally, patenting the news, which collects and exhibits about the "status" of the town jurisdictional, demography, religious institutions, its history and its position at the time, state of roads and bridges, forest vegetation, agricultural production, traditions oral about his past, illustrious sons, etc., presented by such a prominent cause considerable interest and credibility.
And without further ado, let's transcription the descriptive account of the town of Priego
"D. Juan de Saavedra, pastor of the town of Priego, bishop of Cuenca, in compliance with the order of fimo, Sr, bishop, my bishop, I give this relationship,
1 .- Priego's villa, your site to the mouth of the mountains and today called Sueronios formerly known by the name of Orospedanos, which divides the two Castile of the former Celtiberia. It is not royal, manor itself and corresponds to Hon. Mr. Conde de Priego. The privilege of the breasts and the rights of the fortified house, own the King of Spain was (given) to Ruiz Alonso Carrillo, with the title of governor. It was 1336, which corresponds to the year 1298, Valladolid date 7 April, Mr, King Ferdinand of Leon 4th and 3rd of Castile. Cuenca was a hamlet in the year 1500, had 1,500 residents and now only more or less than 300.
2 .- Has pastor, his parish is the title of Mr. Sn. Nicolas de Bari. Has two monasteries: the religious one, north of the village and some two thousand steps out of the population profess the rule of Sn. Francisco and are eight nuns, the title is Nuestra Señora del Rosal, took pains under the Venerable Sister Maria Geronimo de Jesus, whose life is written ( 3); was founded by Don Howard Mendoza, cantor and canon of the Cathedral of Cuenca, son 3 of Don Pedro Carrillo de Mendoza, Count of Priego, endowed the foundation with six thousand ducats a year in the year 1541, only relatives of the Count Priego. The other is a religious convent of the reform of San Pedro de Alcántara, founded in the year 1578 by Don Fernando Carrillo de Mendoza, east of this village and lies half a league of her and called "the Holy Mount Desierro" has had many men of known piety and virtue, as the venerable Fr Fray Junipero and Jorge de la Calzada et al. There was another monastery between east and south a little more than a thousand steps to the river Escabas, under the rule St. Augustine, founded by Don Hurtado de Mendoza, with the dedication of the great mystery of the Incarnation of Our. Mr. Jesus Christ, and was founded in the year of 1465, and for being unhealthy place by the immediacy of the river have moved within the population in the year of 1652 and died in 1766, for lack of congruity. In the church of this village an image prodigiosísima Nra. Mrs. Maria Sma., Mother of God and Mrs. Nra, with the title of the Tower, which is found or found the year of opening 550 form the foundation for this tower to 36 feet deep, this is an image who thus surrounding the town as having a singular devotion. There is a uninhabited, called "Zesma" half a mile west of distance, so called Priego de Zesma.
3 .- Dista this town of Basin City, which is the provincial capital, eight leagues, that falls to the south of this village, the village of Cañizares, which falls to the east, two miles of very wrong path and scree slopes, from that of Alcantud, which falls to the north, two leagues of land bit stream; of Sn. Pedro Palmiche, which falls to the west, a league of good road, and another league Villaconejos track, and the latter town falls to the ledge. His term from east to west is two miles and from north to south league and a half.
4 .- The position of Priego is on the right Escabas River, downhill and downstream distance of 500 steps, the waters bring her home four miles away and east of the village, and die a little more of a mile west on the river Guadiela, its waters are crystal clear. This river had two famous stone bridges, built at the cost of this town in the year 1632, and one is completely ruined by a strong avenue in the year 1783, and the other almost ruined with great detriment of passengers land and Sigüenza Soria, who have got round to their transits.
5 .- From this town up begins (a saw, that is to your east, and gives the top with a very high hills and mountains, where I do not know its beginning, and concludes almost cut to Andalusia, and from its height and discover the famous snow-capped mountains, say, port de Guadarrama, which divide Viega the News of Castile, they fall to their west, and looking towards the east from the very top, ios differ at the same kingdom of Castile separate him from Aragon.
6 .- It has a forest of oaks to the west, called the Mount Cesma, half a league in the box, another oak in the north like the first, commonly called the Meadow, and also to the north and east there in great abundance of four species of pine, pine a / bar, Corsican pine, maritime pine and Aleppo pine. It is also populated much of his field Bushings (sic, for bogies), rosemary and tangles.
7 .- ignored by those who founded this town and just because tradition says that when Cesma depopulated, the neighbors came to the shelter of the castle or strong house, which gave the king Carrillo Ruiz Alonso as expressed in the first response. The weapons used are a shield and bar with the hem of the A ve Maria. Likewise ignored when did villa. It was natural for the limo Mr. Don Juan de Perea and Gudiel, the college of San Ildefonso in Alcalá, magistral canon of Cuenca, Bishop of Oviedo Governor and Council, and has also had many famous names in letters and arms.
8 .- The fruits produced by their land are wheat, in good years amount to 12,000 bushel, rye at 6,000, the 3,000-barley, and oats and the 4,000-seat, oil on arrobas of 3,000 came in the 6,000-v arrobas also there is some ¬ terrain where you are caught in small quantities hemp and vegetables.
9 .- lacks manufacturing and factories, rather than at other times their neighbors were applied to the work of cloth and had this villa obligation to deliver to the city of Alcalá 12,000 yards, and take it to a fixed price; cloth was called slit.
10 .- No fairs or markets, or there are companies and exchange houses.
11 .- lacks all general and special studies.
12 .- There is established for public school education seminar or one, and only one hospital, founded by Fabiano and Catalina Olvera de Avila, to the shelter of the poor natives of the village.
13 .- There are no endemic diseases: there are years that have one and, other, other, the number of deaths, making the computer for years, comes to be in each of twenty-five to thirty, and birth same.
14 .- They are in a close stones lynx, Judaica, glass mountain and coal.
And complying with the order referred to Mr. Hon., I hereby I sign in Priego to twenty-four days of July 1787.
Notes:
( 1 ) About Tomás López attempt to collect such infor ¬ mation and the characteristics of those sent by some Andalusian towns, see A. ORTIZ DOMINGUEZ, The Kingdom of Seville in the late eighteenth century, published in Archives of Seville " (Sevilla), III (1944). It transcribes the interrogation statements responding Priego.
( 1 ) About Tomás López attempt to collect such infor ¬ mation and the characteristics of those sent by some Andalusian towns, see A. ORTIZ DOMINGUEZ, The Kingdom of Seville in the late eighteenth century, published in Archives of Seville " (Sevilla), III (1944). It transcribes the interrogation statements responding Priego.
( 2) The signature took for Cordoba, which are the responses of Priego, reproduced here, is Manuscripts, vol. 7291. Also the small relation, sent by the site Cuenca del Rey Villalba, is extrapolated from the towns of Huelva, after Sanlucar del Guadiana (Ibid., vol. 7301).
( 3 ) should refer to the Life V. Gerónima Sister Mother of Jesus and Carrillo, a professed nun and abbess who was in the agreement Immaculate Conception, outside of Priego, written by JUAN RODRIGUEZ DE CISNEROS (Madrid, Imp T. Rodriguez Frias, 1727, 18 h. 440 pg. 6 pm in folio).
0 comments:
Post a Comment