Pg. 66:

Vesga certainly expressed his claims in an atmosphere of heightened anti-morisco popular anxiety and in the years immediately preceding the royal decision to decree the expulsion of the moriscos from Spain in 1609.

The decades preceding the expulsion decree were characterised by increasingly strident and alarmist claims targeting the moriscos: from the allegation accusing them of systematically conspiring with Spain’s Muslim adversaries in the Mediterranean to that of seeking to take over the kingdoms through their allegedly explosive birth rate.³⁶

(Emphasis added.)