CADASTRE OF THE ENSENADA

IN OTERO DE SARIEGOS 1752

In the Villa de Hotero de Seriego, twenty-five days after the month of February of my seven hundred and fifty-two years: Being present before said Subdelegate Judge, Diego de Aliste Mayor, Bernardo de Coca, Alderman, who were in the next year, Francisco Salagre, Mayor, and Gerónimo de Ledesma, alderman, who are currently Francisco Calzada and Joseph de Ledesma, Associates, Matheo García, surveyor and Francisco Gorjón expert, appointed by their Grace, with the assistance of D Manuel de Cea, parish priest, of this Villa: having been read to them by the clerk, the forty questions of the interrogation, leaving each and every one of them well instructed and reiterated the oath, which before now they have made, and that in which they were signed and ratified, they promised to satisfy them and they satisfied them in the following manner.

1st Name of the Town:

It is called the Villa de Hotero de Seriego

2nd jurisdiction, property and rights:

It belongs to His Excellency the Duke of Frías.

3º Geographical situation and size of the territory

It is three quarters of a league from east to west, one league from north to south, and three leagues in circumference, confronts Villa de Villafáfila to the east: to the west with that of Villarrín de Campos at noon with that of the Villa de Villalba: and to the north with the happiness of Villafáfila and the term has this figure.

4th Type of land:

All the lands of the term are of dry land of pan, except some that are barren by their nature and cannot be farmed, there are different meadows for grazing cattle, and some land has ponds of water Those of bread have a year of rest , and in this they are planted in some chickpeas and they are not used to carob beans.

5º Quality of land:

There is good, medium, inferior quality of land.

6th Type of trees:

There is not.

7º Which lands have trees:

There is not.

8th Formation of plantations:

There is not.

9th Average unit of the lands:

It is only used in this town, it is the measure of load, it is divided into four fanegas, the fanega in two ochabas, the ochaba in six bushels, and the bushel in four cuartillos, and consists of each load of land of two thousand estadales, and each staff of three Castilian bars and one sexma, of seven, that six sexmas make up a bara, and six and a half a fourth, for a measure they manage to pay and satisfy the Galicians and other harvesters, who adjust their harvests by loads , following the same rule, in terms of buying and selling some lands, and in this style and custom, they have been and are, from time immemorial to this part, without any contradiction, well understood, that for their observance, they have no privilege , nor any other instrument, only if the aforementioned custom, which they have kept,and they keep with all rigor and in each load of land eight ochabas of wheat are sown: fourteen of barley, and six of rye, and in the lands, where chickpeas are sown in the intervening years, three ochabas are put in a load of land .

10º Surface of land and qualities.

That in the whole term, four hundred and fifty, four hundred, and seventy loads of land, and in sowing, three hundred and seventy-two: fifty of first quality, ninety of second: and two hundred, and thirty-two of third, of meadows all of second quality, twenty-eight loads: of barren land, forty and of lagoons twenty loads, that all the said items make up the aforementioned, four hundred and sixty.

11º Types of fruits:

Wheat, barley, rye, chickpeas, lambs and wool.

12º Quantity, quality and variety of fruits:

The load of good quality rainfed sowing land is considered for one year, with another, five loads of wheat, if barley is sown seven and a half.

Those of medium quality, two loads, and seven ochabas of wheat, and two and a half loads are for sowing rye.

The third, and inferior quality, which alone is sown with rye, gives this species two loads.

The load of land, planted with chickpeas, is considered to be two loads in each year.

The value of second-quality meadow land is regulated for its pasture every year, ten reais.

For the same reason, the load of barren land is regulated by three reais each year, because it is of poor quality. And the load of land from lagoons, they were not considered any product because they are water lagoons, made with the floods and storms of winter, and although in the summer they are removed and that land is made of sand.

And to the last note of this chapter, twelve is answered, that for the short chickpeas, that in the intervening years, and in others, that the owners think the land can withstand it, they are sown, they are given an increase , according to the consideration, made by those who respond a cuartillo to the load of first quality land, and half the second.

13th Tree Products:

There is not.

14th Annual value of fruit production and its quality:

One year, with a hoop, a load of wheat is worth fifty-five reales de vellón.

The barley twenty-two.

The rye thirty-three.

The one with chickpeas ninety.

Each lamb eight reais.

And the arroba of wool, twenty-five.

15º Taxes and their holders:

From the fruit, which is taken in all the lands of the term, the tithe is paid. The scoop is charged for each type of grain, one ochaba reaching nine harvest and the ochaba that corresponds to rye is paid in barley said scoop, belongs to the factory of the church of this town.

The vow of the holy Apostle Santiago is also paid, which is an ochaba that is fed upon reaching said nine of the harvest of any of the three species of grains, the farmer who has one more than the farm, and the one who only has A cow, or its senara, does not pay more than one ochaba even if it takes all nine of all three species. All the tithes that are caused and due in this said town, and its term are divided, the pomegranates, and lambs in nine ninths, and three are received by the illustrious bishop, of the city of Astorga, for his dignity. Other three the Exmo. Mr. Duke of Frías, resident at the court of Madrid, and the remaining three the parish priest of this said town. And the rest of the giblets are divided into three parts and carried, one by the said bishop and the two by the aforementioned parish priest.

16th Value of annual leases:

One year, with another, the tithes rise to thirty-six loads of wheat: forty-four loads, and two ochabas of barley: thirteen loads, three ochabas, two bushels, one quart, and a half of rye. Three ochabas, a bushel and a half, a quarter of chickpeas, thirty-nine lambs, by reason of the ranchers, who in the term match the tenants, and seven arrobas, and ten pounds of wool.

One year, with each year, the enterprises rise to six fanegas of wheat and ten of barley.

One year, with another, the one of the Holy Apostle Santiago rises to eight fanegas of barley and it is not customary to lease the third by any of the interested parties and, if it were leased, it could have been for a few years, with another thousand and one hundred reais of fleece and by Tazmía, who appears, the whole of the tithe is recorded and matters, what is referred to above

17th Mining and manufacturing:

There is not.

18º Esquilmos:

There is the esquilmo, that thirty rams, eight hundred and twenty-eight sheep, which make up eight hundred and fifty-eight heads of sheep, and for them one thousand seven hundred, sixteen reales de vellón amount to seventy-eight arrobas, and sixteen pounds of wool, at a price of twenty-five reais each, that the names of the owners, and those that correspond to each one, are shown in the following statement.

There is no shearing house in the term of Vecino, nor foreigner who comes to him.

19th Hives:

There is not.

20th Livestock:

there are twenty-five oxen, twenty-two cows, for farming, thirteen yearlings, which are raised for the same, and make up seventy-four heads of cattle, thirteen donkeys, twenty-eight donkeys, and forty-five pigs, that the names of their owners, is as follows.

There are also eight foaled mares that are supplied sometimes from the opposite, and others from the natural, and their owners farm their offspring, and a wild colt, offspring of said mares, which for each of these are regulated to their respective owners of utility in each year, for a five-year period, and for said offspring one hundred reales of fleece, and to the owner of said colt, one hundred and fifty reales that are considered to be worth at the time of their rent, and for their names and those that correspond to each one are placed here.

There is no cabin, or stud farm in the term

21 Neighborhood:

There are sixteen residents with residence in the town that consist of a neighborhood, and there is no open or closed house in the town, of a person who has a farm in their term, nor farmhouses or country houses.

22nd Houses:

There are twenty houses in the town, and among them, one ruined by the poverty of its owner, and it is the heirs of Antonio Méndez, absent.

There are three paneras, for grain storage, and one belongs to the church, from this town, another to Josehp Ledesma, and the rest to Francisco Salgado.

There are no heras, and it is threshed in the council meadows.

23º Properties of the common:

It only has the Council, and neighbors the lands, and meadows that appear in their list, which serve them as their own, with more the product of some leases, which between the years makes foreign cattle, which graze in the term also with the neighbors, for the time, that they contract, being warned, that they never rent for more than four hundred heads of sheep for not giving themselves, the term for more number, and currently they have leased to Bartholome Rodriguez, a neighbor of the Bedezmarban place, who, by force of the The aforementioned lease brings three hundred and thirty four head of sheep grazing in said term, which it has listed in the list that it gave in said place, and pays said council four hundred reals of fleece for five months, which regulates the product of said leases, and other own for a five-year period amounts in each one year,to five hundred thirty-eight reales de vellón, as evidenced by the testimony presented.

There is a deposit in town, which was founded by Mr. Alonso Saldaña, a priest who was from this town to help his neighbors, which is distributed every year, giving each one the portion that they consider they can pay, guaranteeing in favor of said deposit, and its patrons, who are the Lord parish priest, and justice And today it is distributed by virtue of a license from the Lord Intendant General of Castile; whose principal consists of eighteen loads of wheat, and does not return with any increase because its foundation is thus.

24th Common Taxes

This council only has, and charges at will, what each year a tavern produces by lease, which there is in the town whose amount is regulated for a five-year period, amounting each year to seven hundred and thirty reales de vellón, as It consists of the testimony, which is presented: product year is applied, to pay His Majesty the sisa, and the remainder will be the precise expenses of the council.

25 Common Expenses

The precise expenses matter, that in each year, said council has five hundred, and seven reals of fleece that are described in the form, which consists of the testimony, which is presented.

26 Charges of common justice.

There is not.

27th ordinary and extraordinary service:

Pay said council, and neighbors give each year, to His Majesty, may God keep, eight hundred and thirteen reales, and thirteen maravedís fleece in this form.

Whose items make up the said amount, and by the testimony that is presented, it is proven that his payment is true.

Said council also pays, and for neighbors, His Excellency the Duke of Frías, resident of the court of Madrid, two hundred and ninety reales de vellón, for alcabalas, as evidenced by the testimony presented.

28º Income alienated

The alcabalas of this town, contained in the answer to the preceding number, have been transferred by His Majesty to the aforementioned Lord Duke of Frías, and you do not know if it was for pecuniary service, or another reason only if, that they are paid from time immemorial to this part , and for them the said, two hundred and ninety reais.

29th Commercial establishments:

There is only one tavern, whose product is expressed in the answer to number twenty-four

30th Hospitals:

There is not

31º Money changers and wholesale trade

There is not.

32º Other shops and professionals:

There is a surgeon, a resident of the Villa de Villafáfila, named Manuel Codón, who assists the residents of this haulage, and three loads of wheat are regulated for him per year.

There is a sacristan, servant of the priest, named Manuel Fernández, who is not a neighbor, and two loads of wheat are regulated for him a year.

There is no signally faithful of facts, and whenever justice is offered for any diligence, it appoints the one it sees fit, for which reason, no utility is regulated.

There is also no blacksmith in the town, and each neighbor, in the immediate vicinity, assists with what he thinks.

There is a tenant of the tavern, whose name is Francisco Calbo, and he is a resident of Villarrín de Campos, and after paying the price of the lease, two hundred reais is regulated as a utility each year.

There is another person named Joseph Méndez, who is an industry in buying grains, and taking them to (buy) sell different places, which are regulated to be two hundred reais of fleece per year.

There is another person named Miguel Prada, whose deal is to knead bread, and sell it cooked, which is regulated for profit per year, one hundred and fifty reais.

33rd Occupation of mechanical arts (trades):

The grain dealer is regulated three reais per day wage.

To the baker two.

34th Artists:

There are eight farmers, residents of the town, who lease ecclesiastical lands, and four from seculars and who have leases of lands outside the term, that they have six ochabas of grain in the load, of first quality, four in the second, of benefit, and three in the third, and they pay four ochabas for the ecclesiastical or secular lease for the first, three for the second, and two for the third, as everything is presented separately from utility.

35 Day Laborers:

There are twelve farmers, who are regulated by wages per day, five reales and two day laborers, who are each regulated by two reales.

There are two shepherds for the custody of the sheep, which are regulated by two and a half reais per day, each.

There are two zagales who are regulated as wages a day, each one real and a half.

There are four servants for the farm, each of whom is regulated as a daily wage, two and a half reals of fleece.

36th Solemnly poor

There are two solemnly poor people, neighbors of the town, one of whom has children, and both are included in the neighborhood.

37th Ships:

There is not.

38th Clerics:

Dan. Manuel Zea, parish priest.

39th Convents:

There is not.

40th Personal Properties of the King:

There is not.

And for the record to be what is listed above arranged to all truth, and formality, it was signed by those who knew, and by those who did not, a witness, and his grace the Lord parish priest, and I the clerk in faith of them Dn. Francisco Alvarez Maldonados, Mr. Manuel de Cea, parish priest, Diego de Aliste former mayor, Bernardo de Coca former alderman, Geronimo de Ledesma present alderman, Francisco de Calzada, associate, Jophep de Ledesma associate, Francisco Gorjón, expert witness. For me, and as a witness at the request of Francisco Salagre Mayor, present Matheo García, Before me, Pedro de Prado Figueras.

In a copy of its original that remains in the main accounting office, branch of the only contribution of my position, which I certify in Zamora on January 30, 1754

Miguel de Altarriba

Author:

Jose Luis Dominguez Martinez.

Bibliography - Documentation:

Pares Archive: Cadastre of the Ensenada – Otero de Sariegos

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Photography:

Pares File: Cadastre of the Ensenada – Otero de Sariegos.

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Transcription and montage:

Jose Luis Dominguez Martinez.

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