ABSTRACT
How did each investigation end, and what happened to the accused parties in subsequent years? The histories of only some of the Oaxacan defendants can be reconstructed; we have a better picture of what happened in their home town (Yanhuitlán) when a next generation of indigenous rulership took over around 1550. The fate of accused Valencian noble don Sancho de Cardona is well documented, as is the fate, generally speaking, of Valencia’s Muslim-convert population during the final decades of the sixteenth century and then, starting in 1609, with official expulsion from Iberia. But even that story is not quite as clear-cut as it may first appear.
