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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 April 2020
The wheels of justice in the Consejo de Indias (Council of the Indies) turned slowly. It was only in May of 1663 that the case and lawsuit initiated by Governor Villacorta in Buenos Aires in 1660 began to play out in Madrid. On 6 May 1663, Alberto Yansen signed a power of attorney giving Juan Perez de Aller and Francisco Bermejo the authority to represent him before the Council. Bermejo immediately sought the release of Yansen, complaining that he already had been imprisoned in the royal jail for 36 months. Four days later, the prosecutor rejected that request out of hand, pointed to the “severity of his [Yansen’s] guilt,” and requested “severe corporal in addition to material punishment [fines].”
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