[425] Nicol. Anton. Bibl. Vet. Hispan. Lib. X, cap. ix.
[426] Amador de los Rios, III, 60, 136.—Valera, Memoria de diversas Hazañas, cap. iv.
[427] Fortalicium Fidei, fol. cxlvi.
[428] Colmenares, Hist. de Segovia, cap. xxxi, § 3.—Valera, loc. cit.
[429] All recent Spanish authorities, I believe, assume that Fray Alonso was a Converso, but the learned Nicolás Antonio (loc. cit.) says nothing about it, and Jo. Chr. Wolff (Bibl. Hebrææ II, 1123) points out that he nowhere alludes to his own experience as he could scarce have failed to do when accusing the Jews of matters which they denied. He cites (fol. cxlixa) Pablo de Santa María, Bishop of Burgos, for their prayers against Christians and another learned Converso as to a secret connected with the Hebrew letters (fol. xciva). His knowledge concerning the Jews was thus wholly at second hand and his assaults on the Judaizing of the Conversos have every appearance of emanating from an Old Christian.
[430] The prayers attributed to the Jews were the subject of repeated repressive legislation. See Ordenanzas Reales, VIII, iii, 34.
[431] Fortalicium Fidei, fol. cxlii-ix, clxxxi-iii.
[432] Fuero Juzgo, XII, iii, 27.—Fuero Real, IV, i, 1.—Partidas, VII, xxiv, 7. In fact, these laws seem to have been a dead letter almost from the first. I have not met with an instance of their enforcement.
[433] Fortalicium Fidei, fol. liii-liv, lxxv-vi, clxxviii-ix.
[434] Bernaldez, Historia de los Reyes Católicos, cap. xliii. See also Páramo de Orig. Officii S. Inquisit., p. 134.