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The inquisition in the Spanish dependencies: Sicily—Naples—Sardinia—Milan—the Canaries—Mexico—Peru—New GranadaLea, Henry Charles

History

The inquisition in the Spanish dependencies: Sicily—Naples—Sardinia—Milan—the Canaries—Mexico—Peru—New Granada

Name: The inquisition in the Spanish dependencies: Sicily—Naples—Sardinia—Milan—the Canaries—Mexico—Peru—New Granada
Author: Lea, Henry Charles

Lea, Henry Charles

Inquisition

During the sixteenth century baptized Moorish and negro slaves furnished
a certain amount of business, especially when they escaped and added to
the impressiveness of the autos with their effigies, but subsequently we
hear little of them. When prosecuted in person it would seem that the
owner was obliged to pay for their maintenance, for a warrant of arrest,
in 1575, of Pedro Morisco manco, slave of Pedro d’Escalona, requires
eight ducats to be brought with him, to be furnished by his
master.[308] There is one case of a free Morisco which is not easy to
understand. About 1590, Sancho de Herrera Leon, with his wife and
children, was carried off in a Moorish raid. After a short time he
returned and, although he asserted that he had come back to preserve his
faith, he was made to abjure _de levi_, was fined in forty doblas and
was exiled perpetually from Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, under pain of
scourging and galleys.[309] In the seventeenth century we hear little of
such cases, but in 1619 there occurs one which throws some light on the
fate of the Moriscos expelled from Spain in 1610. Juan de Soto, born in
Valladolid and brought up as a Christian, was seven years old at the
time of the expulsion. The family passed into France; at Toulouse his
parents and brothers died, but a kinsman took charge of him and carried
him to Barbary, where he was circumcised and made to utter certain words
in Arabic. For seven years he served various masters, who carried him
twice to Constantinople, Alexandria and other places. In 1618 a fleet
sailed from Algiers to the Canaries, in which he served a Turkish
captain named Hamet. Sent ashore on Lanzarote with a foraging party and
attacked by the natives, three were killed and he was wounded and
captured. The Inquisition claimed him, which was probably fortunate for
him, for, as a renegade he escaped with reconciliation and four years of
sanbenito and reclusion in a convent.[310]

Renegades, in fact, were quite numerous, and the facility is noteworthy
with which Christians when captured abandoned their faith. The tribunal
kept a close watch on them and all who escaped from Barbary were closely
questioned as to fellow-prisoners who had renegaded, when these could be
prosecuted _in absentia_, or record be kept to confront them in case of
their return.[311]

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The inquisition in the Spanish dependencies: Sicily—Naples—Sardinia—Milan—the Canaries—Mexico—Peru—New GranadaLea, Henry Charles

History

The inquisition in the Spanish dependencies: Sicily—Naples—Sardinia—Milan—the Canaries—Mexico—Peru—New Granada

Lea, Henry Charles

Inquisition

During the sixteenth century baptized Moorish and negro slaves furnished
a certain amount of business, especially when they escaped and added to
the impressiveness of the autos with their effigies, but subsequently we
hear little of them. When prosecuted in person it would seem that the
owner was obliged to pay for their maintenance, for a warrant of arrest,
in 1575, of Pedro Morisco manco, slave of Pedro d’Escalona, requires
eight ducats to be brought with him, to be furnished by his
master.[308] There is one case of a free Morisco which is not easy to
understand. About 1590, Sancho de Herrera Leon, with his wife and
children, was carried off in a Moorish raid. After a short time he
returned and, although he asserted that he had come back to preserve his
faith, he was made to abjure _de levi_, was fined in forty doblas and
was exiled perpetually from Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, under pain of
scourging and galleys.[309] In the seventeenth century we hear little of
such cases, but in 1619 there occurs one which throws some light on the
fate of the Moriscos expelled from Spain in 1610. Juan de Soto, born in
Valladolid and brought up as a Christian, was seven years old at the
time of the expulsion. The family passed into France; at Toulouse his
parents and brothers died, but a kinsman took charge of him and carried
him to Barbary, where he was circumcised and made to utter certain words
in Arabic. For seven years he served various masters, who carried him
twice to Constantinople, Alexandria and other places. In 1618 a fleet
sailed from Algiers to the Canaries, in which he served a Turkish
captain named Hamet. Sent ashore on Lanzarote with a foraging party and
attacked by the natives, three were killed and he was wounded and
captured. The Inquisition claimed him, which was probably fortunate for
him, for, as a renegade he escaped with reconciliation and four years of
sanbenito and reclusion in a convent.[310]

Renegades, in fact, were quite numerous, and the facility is noteworthy
with which Christians when captured abandoned their faith. The tribunal
kept a close watch on them and all who escaped from Barbary were closely
questioned as to fellow-prisoners who had renegaded, when these could be
prosecuted _in absentia_, or record be kept to confront them in case of
their return.[311]

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Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

The inquisition in the Spanish dependencies: Sicily—Naples—Sardinia—Milan—the Canaries—Mexico—Peru—New Granada

The inquisition in the Spanish dependencies: Sicily—Naples—Sardinia—Milan—the Canaries—Mexico—Peru—New Granada

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