Decree of the Chancery of Granada

Decree of the Chancery of Granada, ordering that the Chancellor Juan Pérez de Ayala be issued with the steel seal in order to stamp the privileges and judgments of the nobility, which had been sent from Madrid.

With a new monarch on the throne, the seals of the previous ruler had to be destroyed. The new seals sent from Madrid arrived in Granada with a great symbolic ceremony, since they represented the king’s deliverance of justice through the Court. Once received, they were kept very securely in the “casa del sello” (house of the seal) in the Chancery palace. Royal Audience and Chancery of Granada.