Carta executoria

In favor of the nobility of Juan de Mena Gutierrez, Granada, Spain, 14 April 1606

The inclusion of Juan de Mena Gutierrez in the tax rolls in 1599 can probably be explained by the fact that though he was born in Caceres, he settled in Los Santos in Leon after he married. His case must have been strong since he only relied on three witnesses, all of them pecheros, or taxpayers. They pointed out that Mena's family had "cavallos regalados" and their family seal over the door to their home. His paternal grandfather had gone to the Indies to be governor of Santa Marta in what is today Colombia. His father never paid taxes and was memorialized with the family coat of arms on his tombstone.

Parchment, 52 folios, 316 x 212 (307 x 202) mm, 34 lines, in Spanish, in a rounded gothic hand.

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