Fernando VI1 The “loving care with which they are taken care of in them was due to hunting and forest species”

the process of enclosing the Monte de El Pardo in the time of Fernando VI

Abstract

In this paper we will analyse the process of enclosure of El Pardo in the times of Ferdinand VI, an area of mixed use, both by the crown and by private individuals, where the monarch exercised, through the hunting boundaries, jurisdictional control over the whole area, a fundamental instrument of the crown to delimit and protect its properties. The construction of this “cordon” and the regulation of 1752 made it possible to achieve full control of this unique area, and we will therefore analyse the expenses incurred in this process and the land acquisitions that took place between 1750 and 1764, which tripled the previous area, reaching 67,490 bushels of land in 1769