The Inquisition burned the heir to Nuevo León's governorship with his mother and three sisters in 1596, and his stolen memoir went back to Mexico in 2017

Luis de Carvajal y de la Cueva, born to converso parents in Portugal, obtained a royal patent on 31 May 1579 to govern and colonise the New Kingdom of León at his own expense. The grant made him governor and captain-general "for his life and that of his heir". He recruited relatives, who sailed from Seville in 1580. His heir was his nephew, Luis de Carvajal the Younger. In 1587 the viceroy's agent arrested the governor at Almadén. In prison he was accused of failing to denounce his niece Isabel, who had returned to Judaism. On 23 February 1590 he was sentenced to six years' exile, and he died in the Mexico City jail before it was carried out. The nephew, his mother and his sisters confessed at an auto de fe in February 1590. Rearrested in 1595, the nephew named about 120 others under torture. On 8 December 1596 he, his mother Francisca and his sisters Isabel, Catalina and Leonor were executed and burned. His sister Mariana was executed in 1601 and his sister Ana in 1649. The governorship never passed to an heir. The nephew's handwritten memoir, held in Mexico's national archive, disappeared in 1932. It resurfaced in 2016, was bought by the collector Leonard L. Milberg, and was returned to Mexico in 2017^†.