This was for some centuries, the jail and the House of Cabildo, a term used for the institution and the building that housed the municipal authorities sent by the crown. This institution was led by the Corregidor, a figure used by the Catholic Monarchs to end local disputes and reinforce his authority in towns and cities. Among his functions were, in addition to presiding over the town halls and administering justice, promoting and executing all types of public works, maintaining health and the police, guaranteeing supplies to the populations, establishing prices according to the scholastic criteria of the time, and keeping the good uses of commerce that included the exhaustive prohibition of usury.

The town of Coín was governed by a corregidor, or judge of letters from the year 1666 until, with the death of Fernando VII, this form of municipal government was abolished.

Highlight the mayor D. José Riaza de la Cámara, who worked from 1691 to 1695. He is responsible for the reform of the prison, the Antequera and Ronda roads from the Puerta de la Villa, the arrangement of the road to Monda, Marbella and the hermitage, the Malaga road from the outskirts of the San Agustín convent to Sierra Gorda, the general reform of the slaughterhouse, the granary and the new Cabildo hall, among other measures.

We could also talk about the corregidores Rafael Echeverri, for his commission for the Mascarones fountain, located in this square, and several carvings for San Juan. And Antonio Anguiozar y Velasco, who paid for the wide road and who was the author of a manuscript on the miracle of the Virgen de la Fuensanta.