Chapter V: The Canaries

Importance of the Islands as a Commercial Centre 139

Episcopal Inquisition by Bishop Muros, in 1499 140

Tribunal established in 1505--It is dependent on Seville 140

Its Activity until 1534 141

It becomes dormant and is suspended 144

It is reorganized in 1567 and rendered independent of Seville 145

Activity of Inquisitor Diego Ortiz de Fúnez 147

Visitation of Doctor Bravo de Zayas in 1570 148

Visitation of Claudio de la Cueva in 1590--Abuses 150

Prosecution of escaped Negro and Moorish Slaves 152

Prosecution of English and Dutch Sailors 153

Number of Relaxations 155

Finances--Early Poverty--Wealth from Confiscations 156

Prosecution of Judaizers 158

Moorish and Negro Slaves--Renegades 159

Trivial Cases 161

Mysticism--_Beatas revelanderas_ 162

Solicitation in the Confessional 163

Sorcery and Superstitions 165

Foreign Heretics--Sailors and Merchants 167
Treaties with England in 1604 and with Holland in 1609 171
Precarious Position of Foreign Merchants 173

Censorship 176
Examination of Houses of Foreign Residents 177
Irreverent religious Objects 178
_Visitas de Navíos_ 179

Quarrels with the Authorities, secular and ecclesiastical 180

Popular hostility--Opposition to Sanbenitos in Churches 188

Suppression in 1813 189

Final Extinction in 1820 190