Expulsion decrees’ circular logic reveals official unease about mass expulsion.

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It seems to justify action against any who remained by “inferring their mind and intention” to leave from the fact they were already known to be disposing of their possessions! It would hardly be worthwhile commenting on the humbug of this argument were it not for the fact that it reveals an uneasy conscience. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1518