Manera de galardónmerced pecuniaria y extranjería en el siglo XVII

Abstract

�Merced�, favor is a juridical institution traditionally situated across from manifestation of the political authority of the King and his legal authority. During Modern Age, conformed the construction of a bureaucratic machine, it characterized by the �Consejos�, favor is articulated to a juridical regulation that constitutes it like a expression form, parallel and close to the administration of justice, according to the decision of sovereign. Favor is a government way that also is useful for the defense of political and religious interests of Catholic Monarchy in its foreign operating. This research expects to analyze specifically, as well the conceptual dimension of institution, various aspects of the practice operating of favor, following a nature and a concrete problem: nature especially pecuniary of favors conceded to foreigners, and the problem of the reception of those expatriates that seek the protection of Catholic Monarchy for different reasons, religious fundamentally, mainly in the first half of seventeenth century.