Note 1052 — Chapter II · RETROSPECT.
Reading edition
Córtes de Leon y de Castilla, II, 344.—Jovellanos, Informe, pp. 48-80.
The exorbitant privileges of the Mesta were largely curtailed by the Córtes of Cádiz, but were promptly restored by Fernando VII, in a decree of October 2, 1514 (Coleccion de Cédulas etc., p. 170).