Even expelled Moriscos had to pay passage on privately owned deportation ships

Evidence

The old man, or possibly Bleda, was mistaken here! On the naval ships the deportees went free, but on the vessels belonging to private owners, a charge was made, as we know because in order to prevent fraud, special arrangements were made whereby the passage money was held back by the Spanish port authorities on trust and not paid over until certificates of disembarkation in Oran had been presented. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1455

Categorization

• QUESTION: The escrow/passage-money arrangement suggests a private shipping industry profiting from the expulsion — worth pursuing how much the state’s own operation depended on private contractors.