[614] Ibidem, fol. 1, 2, 4, 5.
[615] Arch. Gen. de la C. de A., Reg. 3684, fol. 7, 8.
[616] Archivio Vaticano: Sisto IV, Regestro 674, T. XV, fol. 366.
As Llorente states (Hist. crít. Append, n. 2) that the contents of this bull are unknown and as ignorance of its purport has wholly misled him, I give it in the Appendix.
[617] Archivo Gen. de la C. de A., Reg. 3684, fol. 9.—It is significant that in the papal register there is a note appended to this bull “Duplicata sub eadem data et scripta per eundem scriptorem et taxata ad XXX” [grossos?], showing that an authentic copy was obtained and paid for at the time by some one, doubtless to provide against accident or fraud.
[618] Arch. Gen. de la C. de A., Reg. 3684, fol. 7. See Appendix. Bergenroth (Calendar of Spanish State Papers, I, xliv) gives an incorrect extract from it.
[619] Arch. Gen. de la C. de A., Reg. 3684, fol. 8, 9.
[620] Llorente, Hist. crít. Append. n. 2.—Fidel Fita (Boletin, XV, 467).
[621] Ripoll, III, 622.—When Innocent VIII, by letters of February 11, 1486, confirmed or reappointed Torquemada, the qualification of his appointees was modified by requiring them to be fitting ecclesiastics, learned and God-fearing, provided that they were masters in theology or doctors or licentiates of laws or canons of cathedrals or holding other church dignities.—Páramo, p. 137.
Ferdinand, July 9, 1485, had requested that the condition of holding grades in the church should not be insisted upon for there were few of such who were fitted for the work.—Arch. Gen. de la C. de A., Reg. 3684, fol. 59.