<P> Examples include crimes associated with sexual or family relations such as rape and sexual violence (the Inquisition was the first and only body who punished it across the nation), bestiality, pedophilia (often overlapping with sodomy), incest, child abuse or neglect and (as discussed) bigamy . Non-religious crimes also included procurement (not prostitution), human trafficking, smuggling, forgery or falsification of counterfeit currency currency)), documents or signatures, tax fraud (many religious crimes were considered subdivisions of this one), illegal weapons, swindles, disrespect to the Crown or its institutions (the Inquisition included, but also the church, the guard, and the kings themselves), espionage for a foreign power, conspiracy, treason . </P> <P> The non-religious crimes processed by the Inquisition accounted for a considerable percentage of its total investigations and are often hard to separate in the statistics, even when documentation is available . The line between religious and non-religious crimes did not exist in XV century Spain as legal concept . Many of the crimes listed here and some of the religious crimes listed in previous sections were contemplated under the same article . For example, "sodomy" included paedophilia as a subtype . Often part of the data given for prosecution of male homosexuality corresponds to convictions for paedophilia, not adult homosexuality . In other cases, religious and non-religious crimes were seen as distinct but equivalent . The treatment of public blasphemy and street swindlers was similar (since in both cases you are "misleading the public in a harmful way). Making counterfeit currency and heretic proselytism was also treated similarly; both of them were punished by death and subdivided in similar ways since both were "spreading falsifications". In general heresy and falsifications of material documents were treated similarly by the Spanish Inquisition, indicating that they may have been thought of as equivalent actions. . Another difficulty to discriminate the inquisition's secular and religious activity is the common association of certain types of investigations . An accusation or suspicion on certain crime often launched an automatic investigation on many others . Anyone accused of espionage due to non-religious reasons would likely be investigated for heresy too, and anyone suspected of a heresy associated to a foreign power would be investigated for espionage too automatically . Likewise, some religious crimes were considered likely to be associated with non-religious crimes, like human trafficking, procurement, and child abuse was expected to be associated to sodomy, or sodomy was expected to be associated to heresy and false conversions . Which accusation started the investigation isn't always clear . Finally, trials were often further complicated by the attempts of witnesses or victims to add further charges, especially witchcraft . Like in the case of Eleno de Céspedes, charges for witchcraft done in this way, or in general, were quickly dismissed but they often show in the statistics as investigations made . </P> <P> Beyond its role in religious affairs, the Inquisition was also an institution at the service of the monarchy . The Inquisitor General, in charge of the Holy Office, was designated by the crown . The Inquisitor General was the only public office whose authority stretched to all the kingdoms of Spain (including the American viceroyalties), except for a brief period (1507--1518) during which there were two Inquisitors General, one in the kingdom of Castile, and the other in Aragon . </P> <P> The Inquisitor General presided over the Council of the Supreme and General Inquisition (generally abbreviated as "Council of the Suprema"), created in 1483, which was made up of six members named directly by the crown (the number of members of the Suprema varied over the course of the Inquisition's history, but it was never more than 10). Over time, the authority of the Suprema grew at the expense of the power of the Inquisitor General . </P>

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