Queen Juana ordered one-day prison for converts publicly drunk on wine

Evidence

Know that I have been informed that some of the newly converted who are resident in the above-mentioned cities, because of the great amounts of wine which they drink, become so intoxicated that they fall down in public in the street, so that the Old Christians mock them. When they are drunk, they cause disorder (esc´andalos), and since it is my duty, as Queen, to deal with such matters … I command you, the aforesaid officers, and your lieutenants, that on each and every occasion that you find a New Christian drunk outside his own house or garden, that you have him brought to the prison of the place where he is found, where he is to be held for one day and one night as a punishment for his misdemeanor. And I command that the officers of the watch (alguaciles) who arrest them, and the keepers of the jail, are not to collect any dues or any other charge from them for being held in prison in this way, and anyone who does impose such a charge will incur the penalty. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 276

Categorization

• FICTION: The mandated free jail hold for public drunks — with anti-bribe enforcement baked into the royal decree — could seed a scene about bureaucratic absurdism in a conversion regime.
• SHARE: Darkly funny primary document worth trading with a historian or Spanish-empire fan.