More keys for understanding the ordinary budgets of the Spanish Monarchy from a territorial perspective

Abstract

The Spanish Royal Finances of the XVIII century left an overwhelming volumen of documents.These consist of many thousand of bundles of papers wich are mainly preserved in the Archivo General of Simancas. Their importance as a feasible source for the elaboration of the Monarchy’s general budgets is unquestionable; however, such a considerable documentary base makes research tough, tedious and complex. Within the field os study of the general budgets of Spanish Monarchy, a rather diacchronic concept, we observed that the document collection in AGC is organised in three vast sections: Dirección General de Rentas (DGR), Tesorería General (DGT) y Contadurías Generales (TMC).