Crossword-Solution: ALFEREZ 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 19

Their duties were partly military, partly civil, and under them were subordinate royal officers with a great variety of titles such as sarjento mayor, alferez real, alcalde.

Very true it is--that, being a genuine Spaniard, who was still a rare creature in so vast a world as Peru, being a Spartan amongst Helots, an Englishman amongst Savages, an Alferez would in those days have been a natural noble.

Spaniard, however, as he was, our Alferez on reaching Tucuman found no Spaniards to mix with, but instead twelve Portuguese.

And the first deposed as follows:--That through his quarter of Tucuman, the fact was notorious of Acosta's wife being the object of a criminal pursuit on the part of the Alferez (Catalina): that, _doubtless_, the injured husband had surprised the prisoner, which, of course, had led to the murder, to the staircase, to the key-- to everything, in short, that could be wished; no--stop! what am I saying?--to everything that ought to be abominated.

But the bench were satisfied; chopping logic was of no use; and sentence was pronounced-- that on the eighth day from the day of arrest, the Alferez should be executed in the public square.