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corregidors

  • plural
    of corregidor.
    corregidor
    noun
    the chief magistrate of a town in Spain.

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Item: That many posts for alcaldes and corregidors have been created by making two such districts out of what was formerly one, so that the governor could accommodate persons to whom he was under obligations.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 18 of 55 1617-1620 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by James Alexander Robertson

The chief aim of the alcaldes-mayor, corregidors, and assistants, is trade.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 10 of 55 1597-1599 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by James Alexander Robertson

He introduced important reforms and laws among the alcaldes-mayor and corregidors.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 17 of 55 1609-1616 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by James Alexander Robertson

Although each port had three corregidors who audited the finances, as they also paid for their places, they connived with the governors.

From The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century by Clarence Henry Haring

Charles, though ignorant of its cause, perceived this at a glance, and greeted him thus:— 'Enter Don Philip II, the Duke of Alva, alguazils, corregidors, and executioners.'

From The Heir of Redclyffe by Charlotte Mary Yonge

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