Officials reporting expulsion success may have inflated results to please the king

Evidence

The vice-chancellor of Aragon was able to inform Philip III in 1618 that his kingdom was “cleaner than any other of this breed” (Lapeyre 1959, n. 7), an assessment that Lapeyre accepts. I know of no evidence that would prove or disprove it. There must always have been a temptation to tell the monarch what he wanted to hear. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1484

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Supports the general theme of how administrators and chroniclers distort the record of forced removals and clean breaks.