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Although many escaped, the Royal Criminal Court sentenced fourteen males from different social and ethnic backgrounds to demise by public burning, in accordance to the law handed by Isabella the Catholic in 1497. The sentences were carried out together on at some point, 6 November 1658. The records of these trials and those that occurred in 1660, 1673 and 1687, suggest that Mexico City, like many different large cities on the time had an lively underworld. There’s a fear of illness, mortality, and social ostracism connected to HIV that no different medical diagnosis has ever caused in precisely the same manner. 26 men were arrested, and 12 delivered to trial on sodomy costs; seven men received sentences starting from 4 to 20 years in prison. Within the quick interval from April 1492 to February 1494, it convicted 44 men for homosexual relations not involving violence or aggravating circumstances. The Eight of Watch (the town's leading criminal court) issued a number of decrees related to sodomy, and on April 11, 1492, it warned the managers of bathhouses to maintain out "suspect boys" on penalty of a fine.