An expulsion edict’s self-exile option proved unworkable when timed too tightly

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Sotomayor’s suggestion might be seen as growing out of the final, thirteenth clause of the original edict affecting Valencia. That did allow individuals to opt for a different destination, but the arrangements had to be made from scratch within the impossibly short time then allowed: three days. It seems to have remained a dead letter. The expulsion from Castile gave those departing thirty days’ notice. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1493