Inquisitors opposed Morisco payment deals because they cut off their income

Evidence

These two groups were, of course, each in its way the instrument of the centralizing policies of the Crown and the Church, but each had, as bureaucracies will, its own agenda as well, and at times sectional interests could run counter to the general interest of the Crown. For example, if a special “service” was paid to the Crown by the new converts to secure exemption from the attentions of the Inquisition, that body was thereby deprived of the expectation of the various sources of income (confiscations, fines, etc.) on which it relied and was obliged to rely, in order to defray its running costs. Is it surprising that it did not favor such deals? — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 975

Categorization

• XREF: Institutions as self-funding organisms whose revenue imperatives steer policy — same thread as the bourse/arbitration revenue logic in the Diamond District chapters.