sentences:  During this period, the port became a haven for pirates.During the last quarter of the century, the Inquisition continued its persecution of the city's Jews, locally called "xuetes".The fall of Barcelona in 1714 meant the end of the War of the Spanish Succession and the defeat and destruction of the Crown of Aragon, and this was reflected on the Nueva Planta decrees, issued by Philip V of Spain in 1715.