El Concejo de Santiago y las crisis de subsistencias entre 1741 y 1770.

Abstract

Similarity of verified in a previous article, focused on the period 1690-1740 and published in 2009, the analysis of crises of subsistances of 1746-47 and 1768-69 again revealing the inefficiency of the performances of the Compostela Council at such junctures. Such inefficiency finds explanation in the shortage of financial resources that endured to the municipal institution, but also in the delay in decision making and the mismanagement of operations implemented. It is badly resented the domestic market control, sourcing from abroad and the attention to the numerous concurrent poors. And although in the second of the crises mentioned, undoubtedly the most serious, the performance of the Santiago Regiment was notably more commendable, it is evident that, even so, was far behind what deployed the Archbishop and the cathedral Chapter, that always were those who faced these delicate situations in a more resolute manner.