Hornachero Moriscos paid the Crown to keep their weapons

Evidence

At the cost of a special payment to the Crown of 30,000 escudos (i.e., the same as the estimated value of all 1,000 houses in the town!) the townsfolk had bought the right to take their arms with them (Boronat 1901, 2: 283). — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1717

Categorization

• XREF: Matches the Milgrom/Shapiro theme of communities buying institutional privileges through structured payments — a legal-economic payment buying a concession.