the staunch religious support the limpieza de sangre statutes found. These statutes were seen as the touchstones of the inquisition’s existence, promoting a system that bred fear and encouraged hostile witness and even perjury that twinned with the fear of finding an ancestor with Jewish blood; resulting in a person's entire familial line losing everything as a result. The limpieza de sangre statutes were not without their dissenters however, as it challenged the social status of every stratification of the population. This ranged from: conversos and moriscos, the aristocracy who stood to lose standing because of documented Jewish ancestry and the agricultural workers who farmed their lands, all the way to some Catholic reformers who saw it as a challenge to the efficacy of baptism and a perversion of Christ’s Millennialism. It became clear that while many of these statutes passed throughout the highest echelons of power, the entirety of the Spanish population was not in favor of these laws of blood segregation. Testing and eventual decline Tests of limpieza de sangre had begun to lose their utility by the 19th century; rarely did persons have to endure the grueling inquisitions into distant parentage through birth records. However, laws requiring limpieza de sangre were still sometimes adopted even into the 19th century. For example, an edict of 8 March 1804 by King Ferdinand VII resolved that no knight of the military orders might wed without having a council vouch for the limpieza de sangre of his spouse. Official suppression of such entry requirements for the Army was enacted into law on 16 May 1865, and extended to naval appointments on 31 August of the same year. On 5 November 1865, a decree allowed children born out of wedlock, for whom ancestry could not be verified, to be able to enter into religious higher education (canons). On 26 October 1866, the test of blood purity was outlawed for the purposes of determining who might be admitted to college education. On 20 March 1870, a decree suppressed all use of blood purity standards in determining eligibility for any government position or any licensed profession. The discrimination was still present into the 20th century in some places such as Majorca. No Xueta (descendants of the Majorcan conversos) priests were allowed to say Mass in a cathedral until the 1960s. Procedure to judge purity of blood The earliest known case judging limpieza de sangre