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I allude to domestic service in the houses of the corregidores, sub-delegados, and priests.

From Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests by Ross, Thomasina

To replace control by encomenderos, local magistrates called corregidores were introduced.

From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Bolton, Herbert Eugene

Small municipal matters are regulated by the alcaldes and corregidores; and everything relating to the general government, to the military, and to foreigners, by the commandants, acting under the governor-general.

From Two Years Before the Mast by Dana, Richard Henry

This American comrade shall bribe his courts, his corregidores.

From The Story of a Mine by Harte, Bret

These distributions were under the superintendence of the provincial authorities, the corregidores, and the sub-delegados.

From Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests by Ross, Thomasina