[495] Archivo de Simancas, Inquisicion, Lib. I.—Arguello, fol. 12.—Marieta, Hist. Ecles. Lib. XII, cap. xcii.
Torquemada was buried in a chapel of the church of his convent of Santo Tomás in Avila. In 1572 the body was removed to another chapel to make room for the interment of Francisco de Soto de Salazar, Bishop of Salamanca, when it gave forth a supernatural odor of delicious sweetness, greatly confusing to those engaged in the sacrilegious task. The Dominican provincial punished the authors of the translation and the historian Garibay petitioned the Inquisitor-general Quiroga to have the remains restored to their original resting-place, which was done in 1586.—Memorias de Garibay, Tit. X (Mem. hist. esp. VII, 393).
An anonymous biographer, writing in 1655, tells us that he retired to the convent of Avila two years before his death, Sept. 26, 1498 and that he has always there been reputed as a saint.—Biblioteca Nacional, Seccion de MSS., Ii, 16.
[496] Arch. de Simancas, Patronato Real, Inquisicion, Legajo único, fol. 22.—Bulario de la Orden de Santiago, Lib. I, fol. 136.
[497] Bulario de la Orden de Santiago, Lib. I de copias, fol. 11, 12.
[498] Archivo de Simancas, Inquisicion, Lib. I.
[499] Ibid. Lib. I; Lib. II, fol. 35.
[500] Correspondence of Francisco de Rojas (Boletin, XXVIII, 462).
[501] Bulario de la Orden de Santiago, Lib. I de copias, fol. 13, 15.
[502] Ibid. fol. 20, 72.—Gachard, Correspondance de Charles-Quint et d’Adrien VI, p. 235.