Valladolid seat of the Justice. Criminal judges of the Royal Chancery during the Old Regime

In the Old Regime, even abandoned by the court in 1606, Valladolid was a second court, as seat of the Royal Chancery. This study focuses on the impact caused by the Chancery in the town and its surroundings - the five leagues-, through criminal judges. They were superior judges in criminal cases and they had other responsibilities in justice, government and police. So there were frequent conflicts with various urban institutions. Moreover, criminal judges expanded and strengthened their power in the second half of the eighteenth century, during the Enlightenment, and they became the highest guarantors of public order in Valladolid.