A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 2

by Henry Charles Lea

[273] Ibidem, Yc, 20, Tom. I.

[274] MSS. of Am. Philos. Society.

[275] Proceso contra Don Thomas Sans (MS. penes me).

[276] Valladares, Semanario erudito, XXIV, 194-204.

[277] Pulgar, Chronica, P. II, cap. lxxvii.

[278] Of course the price for these varied according to circumstances. A contemporary document (Summaria Declaratio Bullæ Indulgentiarum Ecclesiæ Xanctonensi concessarum, 1482) tells us that the price in Rome for those in the ordinary form was nearly three florins. In Germany, early in the sixteenth century, the Beichtbriefe were sold at a quarter of a gulden apiece (Gröne, Tetzel und Luther, p. 196).

[279] Archivo de Simancas, Patronato Real, Inquisicion, Leg. único, fol. 1.

In this case the papal letters appointed special persons to act under it as executors—the form known as Absolutio in vim commissionis apostolicæ.—See Formularium Instrumentorum ad usum curie Romane, fol. 2, 3 (Hain, 7276).

[280] Archivo hist. nacional, Inquisicion de Toledo, Leg. 185, n. 820.

[281] Sixti PP. IV, Bull. Quoniam nonnulli, §§ 4, 6.—Julii PP. III, Bull. Rationi congruit (Bullar. Roman. I, 428, 786).