ABSTRACT
The local councils of the Crown of Castile were integrated by the corregidor, the regidores or gentlemen venticuatros and the jurors. The tasks of the latter were fundamentally twofold: on the one hand, the demand for compliance with general laws and municipal ordinances, and on the other, the defence of the rights of the neighbours. In addition to these two basic tasks, access to the jury (selection or patrimonialisation), the functions they performed (preparation of registers, distribution of breasts and services and collection of contributions) and the scope of their participation in municipal councils are analysed in detail (monitoring and control). The chapter concludes with the institutional transformations carried out in the passage from Habsburg to Bourbons at the beginning of the 18th century, disappearing political co-sovereignty, legal plurality and administrative decentralisation.
