Public Notaries in Early Modern Basque Country
Public Notaries in Early Modern Basque Country

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to analyse who could become a notary in the Basque territory of Biscay between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. I will therefore begin by analysing the requirements for becoming a notary, followed by the training process and the examination to obtain the notary title. Finally, the linguistic skills of the notaries will be examined, as they also translated into Basque and Spanish. The paper is based on the laws and regulations of the time in the Castilian and Basque territories, as well as on documents from the archives that provide concrete examples.

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