Moriscos could win legal cases against the Inquisition using royal rescripts

Evidence

The outcome of his trial is surprising. All those burnt at the stake had their property confiscated by the Inquisition, but the leader of the Morisco community, Diego Monge el Cuervo already mentioned above, instituted proceedings, not directly on behalf of Hernando but on behalf of the poor of his neighborhood. Diego Monge was able to produce a royal rescript (c´edula) stating that all property confiscated from the Moriscos should be applied to help toward the situado payments due from the poor of the locality. And so, it would seem, the Moriscos won their case (although Hernando de Barahona and his family still lost their possessions). — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1130

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the law-merchant material on institutions and strategic use of legal norms; also to the broader theme of subject communities leveraging royal authority against local power.