Spain taxed expelled Moriscos half their wealth as they fled

Evidence

Between 16,000 and 17,000 had passed that way, to the profit of the Spanish Crown, which had taken above 100,000 escudos from the refugees (who had to pay to the Crown half of what they had with them!). Salazar nevertheless warned his royal master against what was going on: his letters to the king show that by late March Salazar was very anxious. Could it really be wise, he asked his masters, to send out “so many people of a good class, men of property, to a country so unfriendly” (tanta y tan buena gente y con hazienda a un Reyno poco amigo; Lapeyre 1959, 160 and nn. 2, 3)? Salazar meant, of course, unfriendly toward Philip III, not unfriendly toward the refugees themselves! — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1511

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to how states profit from persecution — echoes the tax on the Jewish expulsion of 1492 and other ‘exit taxes’ regimes impose on departing minorities.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1511