La cencerrada actuó durante la Edad Moderna como un mecanismo cultural destina- do a sancionar las prácticas desviadas y nocivas que atentaban contra el bienestar comunitario. Uno de los comportamientos que fueron per seguidos por estos juicios de carácter popular fueron los malos tratos en el matrimonio u otras conductas, como el adulterio o el alcoholismo. En este artículo se pretende analizar la actitud mostrada por el vecindario en la Navarra de los siglos XVI, XVII, como «guardián» de unos valores comunitarios. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Rough music acted during the Early Modern Age as a cultural mechanism designed to punish the bad and harmful practices that violated the welfare community. One of the behaviors that were pursued by these trials of a popular character was the maltreatment within marriage and other behaviors such as adultery or alcoholism. This article is an attempt to analyze the attitude displayed by the neighbor- hood in Navarre during the XVIth and XVIIth centuries through the celebration of skimming- ton’s against the marital aggression and other behaviors considered immoral.