Aragon’s fuerista procurators openly defied the Inquisition without revolutionary rhetoric

Evidence

Following tradition, they appeared at the gates of the Aljafer´ıa, the great castle in Saragossa in the dungeons of which the Moriscos were languishing, and with their followers set up the time-honored cry, “Help for the King” (Ayuda al Rey), hardly the cry of dangerous revolutionaries! When warned that if he persisted he might find himself inside the jail, too, one of the procurators, Don Franc´es de Ari˜no, replied that he would be only too pleased, because if that were to happen, the whole kingdom would turn out to set them all free. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 573

Categorization

• CANDY: Ari˜no’s jaunty threat — ‘I’d be only too pleased to go to jail, the whole kingdom would free us’ — is a quotable flash of defiant humor.