Credit and Property Rights among smallholders of the Girona Region (1768-1773)

Supplementary materials of the article "Seeing Credit and Property Rights from Below. The Experience of Catalan Smallholders in the Eighteenth Century". The aim is to examine the participation of the 'treballadors' of the second half of the 18th century in the credit and land markets, as well as to evaluate the impact of the 1750 decree that reduced the interest rate of the censals from 5% to 3%. An important part of the material comes from an ongoing project of automatic transcription of the books of the Registry of Deeds of Girona. We have only worked with the first six years (1668-1773, 13 books) because from 1774 onwards, the Registry of Girona was fragmented and the books corresponding to the separate territories have not been preserved. The material available is made up of four different databases containing:
(1) the credit operations recorded between 1768 and 1773;
(2) the 3,604 living annuities (censals) recorded in 1775, by order of the Reial Audiència de Catalunya, specifying the date of creation;
(3) land sales and emphyteutic contracts (including sub-emphyteusis and 'rabasses mortes') recorded between 1768 and 1773;
(4) the aggregate values per municipality of sales and censals per 1000 inhabitants, used to estimate the correlation between the two variables.