Relationship With Towns and Local Communities
Just as the Brotherhood’s relationship with the rulers and their fellow government employees was constantly changing, so was the opinion of them held by the towns they were supposed to be guarding. As mentioned before, the hermandad was initially created as local militias in times of need. When they became a more powerful and more permanent institution, there were definite instances of abuses of power. There were the previously mentioned instances of the Holy Brotherhood silencing those who objected to Isabella’s reign. There were also reported instances of abuse by judges and archers, about whom the corregidores could do nothing. Guzmán de Alfarache (1599) is quoted in Lunenfeld’s book. He quotes: “God free us from the transgressions of the three Holies-Inquisition, Brotherhood, and crusade bull.” Complaints began appear requesting that the powers of the Holy Brotherhood be reigned in, and in 1485 police immunities were reduced and cases were brought up against the archers and judges.
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