[339] Llorente, Hist. crít. cap. XIV, Art. ii, n. 4-10.
[340] Somoza, op. cit., P. II, cap. xxxiii, n. 87.
[341] Juan de Zuñiga, the ambassador at Rome, states that when, in 1572, the commission of Pedro Ponce de Leon as inquisitor-general was drafted, Gregory XIII had strong desire to limit his faculties so as to make the Spanish Inquisition subordinate to the Roman Congregation and that it required infinite labor to obtain it in the customary form. Possibly the case of Carranza may have suggested the innovation.—Bulario de la Orden de Santiago, Lib. IV, fol. 77.
[342] Archivo de Simancas, Inquisicion, Lib. 13, fol. 21.
[343] Ibidem, Lib. 79, fol. 99.—Somoza, P. II, cap. xxxiii, n. 112.
[344] Bulario de la Orden de Santiago, Lib. I de copias, fol. 32, 35, 39; Libro IV, fol. 2.
[345] MSS. of Royal Library of Copenhagen, 214 fol.
[346] Bibl. nacional, MSS., D, 118, n. 55, fol. 175.
[347] Archivo de Simancas, Gracia y Justicia, Inquisicion, Leg. 621, fol. 171.—Bibl. nacional, MSS., D, 118, n. 12, fol. 442.—Bulario de la Orden de Santiago, Lib. IV, fol. 77, 81, 83, 87; Lib. III, fol. 442.—Theiner, Annal. Ecclesiast. III, 361-2.
[348] Hinojosa, Despachos de la Diplomacia Pontificia, I, 252-4, 358.