Mulatto·Outlaw·Pilgrim·Priest The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World Editedby LarryJ.Simon(WesternMichiganUniversity) GerardWiegers(UniversityofAmsterdam) ArieSchippers(UniversityofAmsterdam) IsidroJ.Rivera(UniversityofKansas) MercedesGarcía-Arenal(CCHS/CSIC) MontserratPiera(TempleUniversity) volume 75 Thetitlespublishedinthisseriesarelistedatbrill.com/memi Mulatto · Outlaw · Pilgrim · Priest TheLegalCaseof JoséSoller,Accusedof ImpersonatingaPastorandOtherCrimesin Seventeenth-centurySpain By JohnK.Moore,Jr. LEIDEN | BOSTON Coverillustration:ClintonLariscy, JoséSollerintheVineyards,2019,watercoloronpaper,20×20cm.Private collectionbelongingtotheauthor.Originalartworkcommissionedbytheauthor. ThisresearchwasassistedbybothanACLSFellowshipfromthe AmericanCouncilofLearnedSocietiesandanNEHFellowship fromtheNationalEndowmentfortheHumanities. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Names:Moore,JohnK.,Jr.,1971-author.|Soller,José,defendant.ElFiscaldesu MajestadconJoséSoller,peregrinomulatodeSantoDomingo,sobrefingirse sacerdoteyotrosdelitos. Title:Mulatto·outlaw·pilgrim·priest:thelegalcaseofJoséSoller,accusedof impersonatingapastorandothercrimesinseventeenth-centurySpain/John K.Moore,Jr.. Othertitles:LegalcaseofJoséSoller,accusedofimpersonatingapastorandother crimesinseventeenth-centurySpain Description:Leiden;Boston:Brill,2020.|Series:Themedievalandearlymodern Iberianworld,1569-1934;75|Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. Identifiers:LCCN2020002577(print)|LCCN2020002578(ebook)| ISBN9789004417779(hardback)|ISBN9789004422704(ebook) Subjects:LCSH:Soller,José–Trials,litigation,etc.|Trials(Fraud)–Spain–Galicia (Region)–History–17thcentury.|Falsepersonation–Spain–History–17th century,|Blacks–Spain–Socialconditions–17thcentury. Classification:LCC KKT174.S(Soller)M662020(print)|LCC KKT174.S(Soller) (ebook)|DDC345.46/02633–dc23 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2020002577 LCebookrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2020002578 TypefacefortheLatin,Greek,andCyrillicscripts:“Brill”.Seeanddownload:brill.com/brill‑typeface. ISSN1569-1934 ISBN978-90-04-41777-9(hardback) ISBN978-90-04-42270-4(e-book) Copyright2020byKoninklijkeBrillNV,Leiden,TheNetherlands. KoninklijkeBrillNVincorporatestheimprintsBrill,BrillHes&DeGraaf,BrillNijhoff,BrillRodopi, BrillSense,HoteiPublishing,mentisVerlag,VerlagFerdinandSchöninghandWilhelmFinkVerlag. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,translated,storedinaretrievalsystem, ortransmittedinanyformorbyanymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recordingorotherwise, withoutpriorwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher. AuthorizationtophotocopyitemsforinternalorpersonaluseisgrantedbyKoninklijkeBrillNVprovided thattheappropriatefeesarepaiddirectlytoTheCopyrightClearanceCenter,222RosewoodDrive, Suite910,Danvers,MA01923,USA.Feesaresubjecttochange. Thisbookisprintedonacid-freepaperandproducedinasustainablemanner. ToNiki,throughthickandthin,andallofmychildren— Cleo,Lucas,Gabriel,Seona,andEamon—always ∵ Itisariddlewrappedinamysteryinsideanenigma; butperhapsthereisakey. Churchill ∵ Contents Preface ix Acknowledgments xii ListofFigures xvii ChronologyofJoséSoller xix Part 1 InSearchofSoller 1 TheVineyards 3 2 TheLegalCaseagainstJoséSoller 12 3 Origins 31 4 TheNatureoftheJourney 64 5 ReconstructingLocalesalongtheWay 103 6 OnTrial,underSentence,andinAbsentia 163 7 IntoThinAir 203 Part 2 HisMajesty’sRepresentativeversusJoséSoller,MulattoPilgrim, forImpersonatingaPriestandOtherCrimes:Editionand Translation NoteontheTranslation 213 EditorialNorms 216 EditionandTranslation 228 viii contents Part 3 ScholarlySupplement ProperNamesintheDossier 313 LinguisticVariants 319 ScribalErrors 321 CaseNotes 323 Bibliography 331 Index 348