A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 3

by Henry Charles Lea

[966] Sayas, cap. cxxvii.—Llorente, Añales, II, 296.—Danvila, p. 99.

Boronat asserts (I, 157) that the greater part of the Valencian Moors embarked at Coruña, while large numbers, from the rest of Spain, went to France by way of Biscay, but he cites no authority and the documents and contemporary writers are silent as to any such exodus, while statistics and the course of events show that, except those who escaped to Barbary, practically the whole Moorish population was retained.

[967] Guevara, Epistolas familiares, p. 543.—Archivo de Simancas, Inq. de Valencia, Leg. 205, fol. 3.

Bleda (Defensio Fidei, p. 125) says that Guevara exaggerates and that in 1573 there were in Valencia only 19,801 Morisco families.

It is not easy to determine the Morisco population of Valencia. A detailed list of the whole kingdom, dated 1520 (but which Padre Boronat thinks was corrected up to 1550) gives a total of 52,689 hearths of Old Christians and 31,815 of New Christians. In 1582 Ximenez de Reinosso, Valencian Inquisitor, estimated the Morisco population at from 19,000 to 20,000 families. About 1601, Feliciano de Figueroa, Bishop of Segorbe, assumed that there were 460 Morisco settlements, comprising 28,000 hearths and 120,000 souls in all.—Boronat, I, 428-42, 596; II, 431.

[968] Sandoval, Lib. XIII, § xxix.—Dormer, Lib. II, cap. viii, ix.—Bleda, Corónica, p. 649.

[969] Sayas, cap. cxxx.—Dormer, Lib. II, cap. i.

[970] Sandoval, Lib. XIII, § xxviii.—Dormer, loc. cit.

[971] Archivo de Simancas, Inq., Lib. 939, fol. 108.

[972] Boronat, I, 423-8.