[473] Relacion de la Inquisicion Toledana (Boletin, XI, 295-6).
In 1629 a well-informed writer tells us that many of those who came forward and thus accused themselves were in reality good Christians, who, in the time while Jews were yet tolerated, had associated with them in their synagogues and weddings and funerals and had bought meat of their butchers. Terrified at the proceedings of the Inquisition they came and confessed and were reconciled, thus casting an indelible stain on their posterity when the records of the tribunals were searched and their names were found.—Tratado de los Estatutos de Limpieza, cap. 10 (Bibl. Nac. Seccion de MSS. Q, 418).
[474] Relacion (Ibid. pp. 292 sqq., 297, 299, 301-2, 303).
In the closing years of the fifteenth century and the opening ones of the sixteenth there seems to have been a special raid made on Guadalajara. In a list of cases of that period I find 965 credited to that place.—Arch. Hist. Nacional, Inq. de Toledo, Leg. 262, n. 1.
[475] Páramo, pp. 138-9.—Fidel Fita in Boletin, XXIII, 284 sqq.—Archivo de Simancas, Inquisicion, Libro 939, fol. 108.
[476] Toledo, Cronicon de Valladolid (Coleccion de Documentos ineditos, XIII, 176, 179).—Pulgar, Chron. P. III, cap. 100.
[477] Archivo de Simancas, Inquisicion, Libro I. Unfortunately my copy of this important volume and also of Libro 933 are not folioed. The dates of the documents however will sufficiently guide the investigator desirous of verifying the references.
[478] A list of these, made in the last century, is printed by Padre Fidel Fita (Boletin, XV, 332). It is probably not wholly complete. Of later date than 1500 there are ten reconciliados—one each in 1509 and 1516 and eight in 1629—sent thither by the tribunals in which they were tried.
Further details as to the organization of the various tribunals will be found in the Appendix.
[479] Colmenares, Hist. de Segovia, cap. xxxv, § 18.—Garibay, Compendio Historial, Lib. XVIII, cap. 16.