[386] Revista de España, CVI, 568-70. This correspondence was long used as a weapon against the New Christians. See Vicente da Costa Mattos, Breve Discorso contra a heretica Perfidia do Judaismo, fol. 55-7, 166 (Lisboa, 1623). Rodrigo prints it (Historia verdadera de la Inquisicion, II, 47).
[387] I have considered this notable case at some length in “Studies from the Religious History of Spain,” pp. 437-68. It can be studied with accuracy in the records of the trial of one of the accused, Jucé Franco, printed by Padre Fidel Fita (Boletin, XI, 1887) with ample elucidations. The Catalan version of the sentence is in Coleccion de Documentos de la Corona de Aragon, XXVIII, 68. For the legend and cult of the Santo Niño see Martínez Moreno, Historia del Martirio del Santo Niño de la Guardia, Madrid, 1866.
[388] Páramo (p. 144) seems to be the earliest authority for this story and, as he tells it, it seems rather applicable to an attempt of the Conversos to buy off the Inquisition, but modern writers attribute it to the Jewish expulsion. See Llorente, Hist. Crít. cap. VIII, Art. 1, n. 5; Hefele, Der Cardinal Ximenes, XVIII; Amador de los Rios, III, 272-3.
[389] Manuel de novells Ardits vulgarment appellat Dietari del Antich Consell Barceloni, III, 94 (Barcelona, 1894).
[390] Nueva Recopilacion Lib. VIII, Tit. ii, ley 2.—Novísima Recop., Lib. XII, Tit. i, ley 3.—Zurita, Hist. del Rey Hernando, Lib. I, año 1492.—Amador de los Rios, III, 603-9.—Boletin, XI, 425, 512.
[391] Zurita, loc. cit.
[392] See Appendix.
[393] Páramo, p. 167.—Ilescas, Historia Pontifical, P. II, Lib. vi, cap. 20, § 2.
[394] Amador de los Rios, III, 403.
[395] Llorente, Hist. crít., Append, VI.—Archivo de Simancas, Inquisicion, Lib. 1; Lib. 3, fol. 87.