Once someone claimed to have proof that a person was engaging in Jewish practice, it was automatically assumed that it had religious significance. As Pedro de Villegas demonstrated, this was not always the case. Although the Inquisitors claimed that he "ate meat during Lent without need or reason" and that he "voluntarily observed the Sabbath on Saturdays in his house",7 de Villegas was in fact able to provide reasons valid for which these acts did not prove his guilt. He noted that he ate meat “out of necessity” due to his illness. He also says: “If I rested on certain Saturdays, it was at a time when my trade as a draper was not flourishing, there happened to be a month or two during which I did not work at all. »8 He then called on a series of witnesses who confirmed his explanations. As the emphasis was on limpieza de sangre (purity of blood), de Villegas and his witnesses were correct in mentioning his Christian lineage and the fact that he frequently attended mass. He also separated himself from the Jews when he declared, “I never speak.” with the Jews, nor was I raised to have such an inclination”9. María Gonzalez, on the other hand, readily admitted that the customs in which she and her family participated were "for the good of the Jews ».