[ES] Generalmente, la administraci?n hispana en tiempo de Felipe III se ha considerado como una expresi?n m?s de un estado general de decadencia. Tal interpretaci?n es com?n a testigos de la ?poca e historiadores del presente. Sin embargo, creemos que esta idea admite revisi?n, porque no es coherente con la evidente institucionalizaci?n que ven?a viviendo la monarqu?a hispana desde la d?cada de 1580, y de la que constituye ejemplo fundamental el Consejo Real. En tiempo de Felipe III se encontraron f?rmulas id?neas para afrontar los problemas administrativos planteados, como demuestra la creaci?n de un cuerpo letrado espec?fico, el de los primero 24 jueces y despu?s 30 jueces, a cuyo cuidado qued? la fase de instrucci?n sobre el terreno de muchos juicios de residencia. Entre ellos, los de importantes ciudades cuya colaboraci?n era imprescindible para obtener las contribuciones planteadas por la corona en la asamblea de Cortes iniciada en 1607. Tan eficaces se mostraron los treinta jueces como jueces de residencia en estas ciudades, que ?stas tasaron su apoyo en la desaparici?n del joven cuerpo, concedida sin esperar a la formulaci?n de los cap?tulos generales, mediante punto contenido en las Ordenanzas del Consejo Real de enero de 1608. Pese a su corta existencia, la potencial variedad de las comisiones que pod?an realizar, consagrada en su t?tulo, puede a su vez ser interpretada en clave de paulatina superaci?n de la consabida divisi?n entre gobierno y justicia, a que se viene reduciendo la actividad administrativa durante la Edad Moderna.

[EN] Generally, the hispanic administration in time of Philip III has been considered as an expression of a general state of decadence. Such interpretation is common to the witness of those times and present historians. However, we believe that this idea admits revisi?n, because it is not coherent with the evident institutionalitation that the Hispanic monarchy keep carrying since the 1580's, from which the Royal Council constitutes an ideal example. In time of Philip III there were suitable formulas to confront the outlined administrative problems, as demonstrates the creation of a specific legal body, first 24 judges and later 30 judges, whose did the instruction stage on the ground of many inquiry tri?is. Among them, important cities whose collaboration was indispensable to obtain the contributions outlined by the crown, in the assembly of Cortes initiated in 1607. So effective were the thirty judges like residence judges in these cities, that these appraised their support in the disparition of the young body, granted, without waiting to the formulation of the general chapters, by the way of contained point in the Ordinances of the Royal Council of january of 1608. In spite of their short existence, the potential variety of the commissions that they could carry out, consecrated in its title, can be interpreted in key of gradual superation of the traditional divisi?n among government and justice, that the administrative activity is being reduced during the modern age.