A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 2

by Henry Charles Lea

[147] Schäfer, Beiträge zur Geschichte des spanischen Protestantismus, III, 785-88, 791.

The Consideration in question is not, as there stated, No. 65, but No. 54, in both the original Basle edition of “Le cento e dieci divine Considerazioni” (1550) and in the Spanish version of 1558, printed by Usoz y Rio. The mistake is probably that of a copyist, confusing LIV and LXV. The Spanish version seems to have circulated among the little group of heretics in Valladolid.

[148] Döllinger, Beiträge zur politischen, Kirchlichen u. Cultur-Geschichte, I, 574.—Pallavicini, Hist. Conc. Trident. Lib. XIV, cap. lii, n. 4-6.—Bzovii Annal. ann. 1566, n. 90.

[149] Schäfer, Beiträge, III, 792.—See in general pp. 727-812.

[150] Archivo hist. nacional, Inquisicion de Toledo, Leg. 112, n. 64, fol. 2.

[151] Archivo de Simancas, Inquisicion, Sala 40, Libro 4, fol. 228.—Gachard, Retraite et Mort, II, 422.

The personage in question was a certain Juan Sánchez, of no special importance. He was arrested in Flanders, in May, 1559, and burnt alive as an impenitent in the auto of October 8, 1559.—Schäfer, op. cit., I, 254, 307, 313-14; III, 796-803.

[152] Comentarios, Prologo, fol. 2^b.

[153] The policy of the Spanish Church is forcibly expressed by the Council of Salamanca, in 1565. “The very name of heretics should be so hateful to the faithful that it should never pass our lips if it can possibly be avoided. Preachers should propound the doctrines of the faith and give the reasons and authorities for them, but should never allude to the sects of the heretics or to their arguments. In scholastic disputations no heretical, or dangerous, or erroneous assertions should be introduced, even for the purpose of exercise, but only those approved by the customs of each university.”—Concil. Salmanticens. ann. 1655, Decr. xxxii (Aguirre, V, 453).

[154] Comentarios, fol. 219ª, 162ª.