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  • Caballería: about 100 acres
  • Caballero: a prominent minor noble
  • Cabildo: a governing council of an urban area
  • Calero: crushed limestone or limestone seller
  • Capellán: a priest who says Mass privately in an oratory or home
  • Capellanía: a benefice
  • Carretero: a carter
  • Carta de dote: a dowry agreement
  • Carta de pago: receipt for payment
  • Casa poblada: refers to the entire household - family members, servants, slaves, criados
  • Cédula: a written order often from the king or the royal court and councils
  • Clérigo: an ordained priest
  • Cofradía: a confraternity
  • Colegio: a school for younger students
  • Comadre: a godmother
  • Compañero: an associate
  • Compulsoria: a court order allowing copies of documents to be made
  • Concejo: a council
  • Conde: a person bearing this title of nobility had lower status than a duque or a marqués but was higher than a hidalgo.
  • Contador: an accountant; one of the four royal officials
  • Corregidor: A salaried Crown appointee assigned to collect tribute from and provide administrative and judicial oversight of an indigenous community, often replacing the encomendero
  • Corregimiento: an encomendia or other jurisdiction held directly by the Crown
  • Criado: Literally a servant but more often a retainer, staff member, or household dependent
  • Cura: a parish priest