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Process related to the person of Marc Xipell, chief guard of the Salinas de Cardona, and to “the copious gangs of armed, scheming people, who, without respect for the troops and the ministers of security, entered at night to steal considerable portions of salt from the Salinas de Cardona”.

Date
1734
Archive
Historical Archive of Cardona
Document type
Textual
Reference code
CAT-AHC-500-10-3
Link to the archive
Description

The choice of this document is justified by its documentary typology and the information it provides about the social and economic reality that revolved around the Castle of Cardona and its salt pans in the two decades following the application of the New Plant decree and the implementation of the royal monopoly on the marketing and sale of salt.