Another possibility is that the practice was receiving less official attention because the profits from deodands were no longer going into royal coffers.

The royal coffers would be as full, whilst all benefited from greater peace and justice.

"He's not here to steal from the royal coffers," said Santangel.

Nevertheless, the melancholy fact is, that the royal coffers are almost getting literally void of coin.

These successive measures were simply expedients to fill the royal coffers.

"I've seen enough Spanish treasure to know this belongs in royal coffers."

The clergy, however, had already contributed handsomely to royal coffers before the crisis of the 1290s.

The focus on the economy (and the revenues it provided to the royal coffers) was also extended to society at large.

The money for the soldiers came mostly from royal coffers while the nobility made only minor and occasional financial contributions.

Only the transmission of locally collected taxes to the royal coffers was left to the king's revenue officers.