before 1550 on Muslim mosques within Portuguese territory. Records suggest that a New Christian was executed by the Portuguese in 1539 for the religious crime of "heretical utterances". A Jewish converso or Christian convert named Jeronimo Dias was garrotted and burnt at the stake in Goa by the Portuguese, for the religious heresy of Judaizing in 1543 before the Goa Inquisition tribunal was formed. The beginning of the Inquisition Cardinal Henrique of Portugal sent Aleixo Díaz Falcão as the first inquisitor and established the first tribunal. The Goa Inquisition office was housed in the former palace of Sultan Adil Shah. Various orders issued by the Goa Inquisition included: All qadis were ordered out of Portuguese territory in 1567 Non-Christians were forbidden from occupying any public office, and only a Christian could hold such an office; Hindus were forbidden from producing any Christian devotional objects or symbols; Hindu children whose father had died were required to be handed over to the Jesuits for conversion to Christianity; Hindu women who converted to Christianity could inherit all of the property of their parents; Hindu clerks in all village councils were replaced with Christians; Christian ganvkars (freeholders) could make village decisions without any Hindu ganvkars present, however Hindu ganvkars could not make any village decisions unless all Christian ganvkars were present; in Goan villages with Christian majorities, Hindus were forbidden from attending village assemblies. Christian members were to sign first on any proceedings, Hindus later; In legal proceedings, Hindus were unacceptable as witnesses, only statements from Christian witnesses were admissible. Hindu temples were demolished in Portuguese Goa, and Hindus were forbidden from building new temples or repairing old ones. A temple demolition squad of Jesuits was formed which actively demolished pre-16th century temples, with a 1569 royal letter recording that all Hindu temples in Portuguese colonies in India have been demolished and burnt down (desfeitos e queimados); Hindu priests were forbidden from entering Portuguese Goa to officiate Hindu weddings. Sephardic Jews living in Goa, many of whom had fled the Iberian Peninsula to escape the excesses of the Spanish Inquisition, were also persecuted in case they, or their ancestors, had fraudulently converted to Christianity. The narrative of Da Fonseca describes the violence and brutality of the inquisition. The records speak of the demand for hundreds of prison cells to accommodate the accused. From 1560 to 1774, a total of 16,172 persons were tried by