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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Debora, post: 9559075, member: 1476&quot;]Did you read the link about the Alcalde de la Santa Hermandad?&nbsp; Could it have been produced for and presented to a militia?</p><p><br /></p><p><b>&quot;Alcalde de la Santa Hermandad</b> (lit.&#039;Mayor of the Holy Brotherhood&#039;) was a term used in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Castile" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Castile" rel="nofollow">Spanish</a> colonies in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Americas" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Americas" rel="nofollow">the Americas</a> during the times of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Empire" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Empire" rel="nofollow">Spanish Empire</a>. The term referred to judicial magistrates named in towns and villages within the jurisdiction of the Spanish Empire in the Americas whose function was primarily to be informed of infractions committed in rural areas against the established order, so they could be prosecuted.&nbsp; In this capacity, their primary function was to help the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militia" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militia" rel="nofollow">militia</a> of a rural region within the jurisdiction of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabildo_(council)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabildo_(council)" rel="nofollow">cabildo</a>. This militia was organized under an institution termed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Hermandad" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Hermandad" rel="nofollow">Santa Hermandad</a>. The term of service of an <i>Alcalde de la Santa Hermandad</i> was one year. The position was eliminated around 1835, when the Santa Hermandad force itself was disestablished.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Debora[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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