As with the Jews, race hatred was so deep an ingredient of the treatment meted out to them that the nominal cause was sometimes forgotten, and baptism often failed to save "the new Christian" who preserved any, even the most innocent, of the national customs.

Many a man and woman was tortured for not eating pork or for bathing in the Moorish fashion.
As Protestantism never obtained any hold in Spain, the Inquisition had comparatively little trouble on that account.

During the sixteenth century a total number of 1995 persons were punished as Protestants of whom 1640 were foreigners and only 355 were Spaniards.

Even these figures exaggerate the hold that the Reformation had in Spain, for any error remotely resembling the tenets of Wittenberg immediately classed its maintainer as Lutheran.

The first case known was found in Majorca in 1523, but it was not until 1559 {416} that any considerable number suffered for this faith.