[480] Páramo, p. 137.—Llorente, Añales, I, 73.—Zurita, Añales, Lib. XX, cap. xlix—Instruciones de Sevilla, 1484, Prólogo (Arguello, fol. 2).—Archivo de Alcalá, Estado, Legajo 2843.
In the conference of Seville in 1484, besides the inquisitors and the members of the Council there are mentioned as present Juan Gutiérrez de Lachaves, and Tristan de Medina, whom Llorente (Añales, I, 74) conjectures to have been assistants of Torquemada.
[481] Folch de Cardona, in the Consulta of the Suprema to Philip V, July 18, 1703, states that the earliest bull in the archives was one of Sixtus IV in 1483 appointing Torquemada inquisitor-general with power to deputize inquisitors and to hear cases in the first instance. It was not till 1486 that Innocent VIII granted him appellate jurisdiction.—Bibl. Nacional, Seccion de MSS., G, 61, fol. 199.
The title of Inquisitor-general was not immediately invented. In a sentence pronounced at Ciudad-Real, March 15, 1485, Torquemada is styled simply “juez principal ynquisidor.”—Arch. Hist. Nac. Inq. de Toledo, Legajo 165, n. 551.
[482] Ripoll Bullar. Ord. FF. Prædic. III, 630; IV, 125. Yet modern apologists do not hesitate to argue that the papacy sought to mitigate the severity of the Spanish Inquisition (Gams, Zur Geschichte der spanischen Staatsinquisition, pp. 20-1; Hefele, Der Cardinal Ximenes, p. 269; Pastor, Geschichte der Päpste, II, 582), basing their assertions on the eagerness of the curia to entertain appeals, of which more hereafter.
[483] Archivo de Simancas, Patronato Real, Inquisicion, Legajo único, fol. 28.
[484] Páramo, pp. 156-7.
[485] Ripoll, IV, 126.
[486] Páramo, p. 156.
[487] Arch. Gen. de la Corona de Aragon, Reg. 3486, fol. 45.—Páramo, p. 137.