Irish Voices from the Spanish Inquisition: Migrants, Converts and Brokers in Early Modern Iberia PDF
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Irish Voices from the Spanish Inquisition This page intentionally left blank Irish Voices from the Spanish Inquisition Migrants, Converts and Brokers in Early Modern Iberia Thomas O’Connor Senior Lecturer in European History, National University of Ireland, Maynooth © Thomas O’Connor 2016 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2016 978-1-137-46589-4 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted his right to be identifi ed as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2016 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-69094-7 ISBN 978-1-137-46590-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137465900 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. Typeset by MPS Limited, Chennai, India. Magistro dilectissimo Patricio Corish (1921–2013) Juste et sancte vivit qui rerum integer aestimator est (Augustine) This page intentionally left blank Contents List of Figures ix Acknowledgements x List of Abbreviations xi Maps xii Introduction 1 Part I Sixteenth Century 1 The European Context for Irish Migrant Mobility 17 Anglo-Spanish tensions 18 Inquisition and the English Embassy in Madrid 21 Towards practical tolerance, 1568–1574 25 The new order 29 2 Irish Merchants and the Inquisition 33 Sinews of trade 34 Dealing with the Inquisition 38 On the high seas and in the New World 45 3 Irish Clergy on the Move 50 Origins of clerical mobility 50 Engaging with the Inquisition 53 Settling into exile, 1590–1604 59 Part II Seventeenth Century 4 Diversifying Migrant Roles 67 Trench warfare at the English embassy 67 New inquisitorial roles 73 Migrant inclusion and exclusion strategies 76 Reconciling Irish Muslims 83 5 The Irish in Spanish America 87 Policing porous frontiers 87 Pirates, soldiers and settlers 89 Irish clerics on the Spanish mission 96 6 Inquisitorial Intrigue and the Mexican Irish 104 William Lamport in Mexico 105 Lamport’s radicalization 111 Waning of the New World Inquisitions 116 vii viii Contents Part III Eighteenth Century 7 Irish Soldiers and the Inquisition, 1700–1750 123 New challenges for the Holy Office 123 Naturalizing Irish heretics 125 Fading military presence 131 Inquisitorial eclipse 136 8 Eighteenth-Century Mercantile Diaspora 141 Economic success of Irish merchants 142 Assisting the Inquisition in Málaga 143 The industrious Irish of Bilbao 146 The Irish in the Canary Islands Inquisition 148 Contesting English interests in Lisbon 155 Converting English heretics in Cádiz 161 9 Irish Money and Industry in Spain 165 Financiers and the Inquisition 165 Converting Irish operatives 168 Knowledge transfer 177 10 Gendering the Migrant Experience 179 Female conversion narratives 180 Solicitation and sexual harassment 187 Social pressures 194 Conclusion 197 Notes 202 Bibliography 248 Index 264 List of Figures 2.1 Lisbon in the sixteenth century 36 3.1 Early seventeenth-century Limerick 55 4.1 Entry of the future Charles I to Madrid, 1623 71 5.1 The storming of Cádiz, 1596 91 5.2 Frontispiece of Commentaria (1589) 100 8.1 The Port of Málaga 144 8.2 Santa Cruz Church, Cádiz 153 ix
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