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The heads of the civitates were the king's judices, it is true, and assembled to assist him in judgments at his general placita in the March of each year; but they bear the character also of local lords of no mean importance, and in some cases possessed of no inconsiderable amount of power.
Everybody was eager to dance, or talk, or stroll in the placita with her, and all who were not engaged with her were talking enthusiastically in praise of her appearance, her manner, or her conversation. Colonel Kate moved about, proud and happy in the brilliant success of her hazardous undertaking and serene in the confidence that the Colonel's wife would not again attempt rebellion.
A few weeks later Colonel Fountain learned that this man was in hiding at Concordia, a placita two miles below El Paso.
They were living then in the ancient adobe "Governor's palace," with its four-foot walls and its eventful history ante-dating the landing at Plymouth Rock, and for a half-waking instant she wondered if some unshriven victim of century-gone enmity and revenge still walked those old halls or sought its mortal habiliments among the rotting bones in the placita.
This prohibition is in these words: "Nullus vicecomes, constabularius, coronator, vel alii balivi nostri, teneant placita coronae nostrae." Some persons seem to have supposed that this was a prohibition merely upon officers bearing the specific names of "sheriffs, constables, coroners and bailiffs," to hold criminal trials. But such is not the meaning.
His duties and his interests were more confined to the city than those of any of the other judges, and when he accompanies the count to the general placita of the king, he seems to go in the capacity of a representative of the city, and more in the character of a city magistrate than any officer we have yet considered.
The introduction of this new feature into city government seems to have been the result of an attempt to correct certain abuses in the exercise of power by the duke or head of the courts of the civitas. The duke had the right, as we know, to summon all the freemen in his jurisdiction to his placita, and to fine them according to the law if they failed to answer his summons.
According to Charlemagne, no one should come with the count to a king's placitum unless he had a case to present, "qui causam suam quaerit, exceptis scabinis septem, qui ad omnia Placita esse debent."
Coolidge sat in the placita, and Lieutenant Wemple came, and they three read and talked together. The young officer thought her a more interesting companion than any white girl he had ever met. The world his world was all so new and marvellous to her that it was like opening its doors to some visitor from another planet.
To call the Governor's residence "palatial" was part of the common law of Santa Fé journalism. In actual fact, it was a one-story, flat-roofed, adobe house, enclosing a placita, or little court, and having a portal, or roofed sidewalk, along its front. When she first went to New Mexico, Mrs.
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