The exclusion of the Indians from the Inquisition of the Indies

The tribunals of the Holy Office founded in the Indies in 1569-70 were barred from proceeding against Indians. The Recopilación prints the bar twice and names the courts that took the jurisdiction instead: the ecclesiastical ordinaries for causes of faith, the royal justices for sorcerers who killed by spells. Exemption was not immunity: a bishop of Quito's manual shows the other court at work, with three admonitions and the diocesan punishing "con el rigor del Derecho".