A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 1

by Henry Charles Lea

Bernaldez evidently derives his details from the inquisitorial sentences read at the autos de fe, in which these evidences of Judaism are recited in endless repetition.

[435] Amador de los Rios, III, 142.

[436] Castillo, Cróníca de Enrique IV, cap. liii.—Mariana Historia de España, Lib. XXIII, cap. vi.

[437] Modesto Lafuente, Hist. Gen. de España, IX, 227.

[438] Boletin, XXIII, 300-1.

[439] Vicente Barrantes, Aparato para la Historia de Extremadura, II, 362.

[440] Córtes de los Antiguos Reinos de Leon y de Castilla, Madrid, 1861 sqq.

[441] Archivio Vaticano. Sisto IV, Registro 679, Tom. I, fol. 52. I have printed this bull in the American Historical Review, I, 46.

[442] It was during Isabella’s stay in Seville that, on September 2d, she confirmed, followed by Ferdinand at Xeres, October 18, 1477, a forged decree, ascribed to Frederic II, granting certain privileges to the Inquisition of Sicily. This was done at the request of Filippo de’Barbarj, subsequently Inquisitor of Sicily, then at the court, whom both monarchs qualify as their confessor. He is said to have exercised considerable influence with them in overcoming the opposition to the establishment of the Inquisition in Castile. With regard to the forged decree of Frederic II, see the author’s “History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages,” Vol. II, p. 288.

[443] Zurita, Añales de Aragon, Lib. XX, cap. xlix.