Money could buy Moriscos respite from persecution but not the ultimate policy’s goal

Evidence

The fact that the authorities were indeed prepared to consider such a transaction cannot fail to surprise us. The justification for the actions which the Christians had taken, and were to take, against the newly converted was that Christians sincerely believed that they had an obligation of a religious nature that forced them to act. How could such an obligation be reconciled with the acceptance of what to modern eyes looks like a bribe? No doubt Charles did not see things in that way. Right until the very end, until the Expulsion, it continued to be true that money could often buy for the former Muslims some amelioration in their conditions, a respite, but equally from this point onward the ultimate policy objectives were clear: conversion together with complete acculturation for those who wished to stay, expulsion for those who did not. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 523

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing the mechanics of how purchase of respite worked at court — who collected the 80,000 ducats and how patronage funneled it.