With the publication of the Decree of New Plant the June 24th of 1707 the status legal and political of Cossonda gives a radical turn and is gotten up which today we know like the Modern Spanish State, although the war continuous until 1714.

 

1706

Map of Fer of 1706

 

Thus in 1708 "la Unión de Labradores" decides to pay half of the value of the cavalry that badly lost with occasion of the war, whenever it was not by its fault and trying not to approach more than four leagues to the army, remedying therefore a great badly to the cossondans, because frequently they passed by the neighbourhoods the warring armies, and they seized of whichever cavalries found, thus causing enormous damage to the agriculturists. In 1709 the population is of 120 neighbours or houses.

 

1709

Map of Nolin of 1709

 

The April 3rd of 1711, by a Real Decree, Sir Felipe V divides the old Kingdom of Aragon in 13 Groups of Judges, Cossonda is including in the one of Daroca, that agrees almost to the plenary session with the limits of the Vereda of Daroca.

 

The Groups of Judges (1711)

The Groups of Judges (1711)

 

In 1712 passes away in Saragossa that had been Vicar of Cossonda Mosen José Torres Busal, being buried in the Church of Saint Paul of this city. The following year is made the altarpiece of Our Lady of the Rosary, paying it its Brotherhood, by the construction and carving 200 "jaquesas" pounds and, to gild it, 280, being the best one of all the altarpieces of the Church, with abundant stature, loose and concluded very well, and with rich and permanent gilding.

 

The Altarpiece of the Virgin of the Rosary (1713)

 The Altarpiece of the Virgin of the Rosary (1713)

 

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