Indians outside the jurisdiction of the Inquisition (Recopilación, libro I título 19 ley 17 and libro VI título 1 ley 35)

Two cross-referenced laws of the Recopilación keep the indigenous population out of the tribunals of the Holy Office: because proceeding against Indians is prohibited to the inquisitors, faith cases go to the ecclesiastical ordinary and lethal sorcery to the royal courts. The exemption is real and narrow. The same code hands indigenous religion to other judges, charges the extirpation of idolatry to the Indians' own community chest, and there predicts accusations manufactured for money.