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452 452 RISING IN THE ALPUXARRAS. PART the people, who, cheered on bj the frantic clergj, '- — seemed to vie with one another in the eagerness, with which they ran down the miserable game of the Inquisition. p, ftcts or It was at this very time, when the infernal mon- llie treaty of ^ ' Graimda. g^-gj.^ gorged but not sated with human sacrifice, was crying aloud for fresh victims, that Granada surrendered to the Spaniards, under the solemn guaranty of the full enjoyment of civil and religious liberty. The treaty of capitulation granted too much, or too little, — too little for an independent state, too much for one, whose existence was now merged in that of a greater ; for it secured to the Moors privileges in some respects superior to those of the Castilians, and to the prejudice of the latter. Such, for example, was the permission to trade with the Barbary coast, and with the various places in Castile and Andalusia, without paying the duties imposed on the Spaniards themselves ; ^'' and that article, again, by which runaway Moorish slaves from other parts of the kingdom were made free and incapable of being reclaimed by their masters, if they could reach Granada. ^^ The former of these provisions struck at the commercial profits of the Spaniards, the latter directly at their property. Evasion of It is not too much to say, that such a treaty, de- it by ihe _ •', -^ Christians, pending for its observance on the good faith and forbearance of the stronger party, would not hold together a year in any country of Christendom, 37 The articles of the treaty are belion de Moriscos, lib. 1, cap. 19. detailed at length by Marmol, Re- 38 Idem, ubi supra.