[948] Archivo de Simancas, Inquisicion, Libro 939, fol. 63, 64.
[949] Ibidem, Libro 940, fol. 220, 221. The excommunication latæ sententiæ worked of itself when the act was committed and did not require to be published. It was one of the worst ecclesiastical abuses and during the later middle ages was so lavishly employed that men scarce knew whether or not they were excommunicate under some mandate of which they had never heard.
[950] This abuse existed in England under the name of Purveyance and Pre-emption, but there it was restricted to the royal household. It inevitably led to many abuses and was replaced, in 1660, with an excise on malt and spirituous liquors by 12 Carol. II, cap. 24, §§ 12-27.
[951] Archivo hist. nacional, Inquisicion de Valencia, Libro 7 de Autos, Leg. fol. 391, 494; Leg. 2, n. 18; Leg. 13, n. 2, fol. 11.
[952] Córtes de Leon y de Castilla, T. I, II (Madrid, 1861-3).—Colmeiro, Córtes de Leon y de Castilla, II, 122, 124, 136, 150, 162-3, 181, 193, 201, 277.
[953] Fueros y Ordinacions del Reyno de Aragon, Lib. VII (Zaragoza, 1624, fol. 131.)
[954] Arguello, fol. 22.
[955] Archivo de Simancas, Inquisicion, Libro 1; Libro 939, fol. 144.
[956] Archivo hist. nacional, Inquisicion de Valencia, Leg. 5, n. 2, fol. 304.
[957] Parets, Sucesos de Catalonia (Mem. hist. Español, XX, 150-182; Appendix, pp. 219, 299, 301, 312).