A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 2

by Henry Charles Lea

[753] Archivo de Simancas, Inquisicion, Lib. 3, fol. 197.

[754] Ibidem, Lib. 933.

[755] Ibidem, Sala 40, Lib. 4, fol. 171, 218, 219.

[756] Ibidem, Lib. 926, fol. 292.

[757] Archivo de Simancas, Inquisicion, Sala 40, Lib. 4, fol. 160; Lib. 926, fol. 287.

[758] Ibidem, Visitas de Barcelona, Leg. 15, fol. 2, 20.

[759] Ibidem, Lib. 926, fol. 23.

[760] Archivo de Simancas, Inquisicion, Libro 939, fol. 127.

Llorente says (Hist. crít., cap. XIV, art. 3, n. 16) that, in consequence of the irregularity in the arrangement of the papers of a trial, the Suprema, March 22, 1531, ordered that care should be taken to avoid it in the future. This led the tribunals to write every act on a separate sheet and not to page them, so that matters could be introduced or taken out or altered at pleasure when submitting a case to a consulta de fe or the Suprema. He tells us that there was much of this in the prosecution of Carranza and that he had himself seen it done by order of Nubla and Cevallos, inquisitors of the Madrid tribunal.

This all may be so, but the carta acordada of March 22, 1531 expressly orders that the folios shall be numbered (Archivo de Simancas, Lib. 939, fol. 137). The practice was not uniform. I have met with trials both numbered and unnumbered.