A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 2

by Henry Charles Lea

[1440] Archivo de Simancas, Patronato Real, Inquisicion, Leg. único, fol. 37, 38.

[1441] Actos de Corte del Reyno de Aragon, fol. 96 (Zaragoza, 1664).

[1442] Archivo hist. nacional, Inquisicion de Valencia, Leg. 12, n. 2, fol. 126.

[1443] Archivo de Simancas, Inquisicion, Leg. 552, fol. 52.

[1444] Llorente, Hist, crít., Cap. XLII, Art. 1, n. 13.

[1445] Archivo de Simancas, Inquisicion, Lib. 890, fol. 28.

[1446] Instrucciones de 1561, § 10 (Arguello, fol 28).—Instruccion y Pratica del Comisario, n. 34.—Proceso contra Angela Nuñez Marques, fol. 82 (MS. penes me).

[1447] Proceso contra Benito Peñas (MSS. of Library of Univ. of Halle, Yc, 20, T. VI.)—Pablo García, Orden de Processar, fol. 6.

The Roman Inquisition was much more regardful of the interests of the accused. The inquisitor was instructed in no case to pledge or sell utensils, movables or tools of trade or real estate, but to restrict himself to the income or rents of the latter. The expenses of transport were thrown upon the local bishop or the papal camera, but these were usually small in view of the numerous petty tribunals, for there was one in every place of any size. Care was taken to keep down expenses and, in many places, the Inquisition consisted of a couple of rooms in the convent to which the inquisitor belonged, for he was either a Franciscan or a Dominican. The transport of those condemned to the galleys was defrayed by the towns; the maintenance of poor prisoners by the bishops, or, if they were Regulars, by the Orders to which they belonged.—Decr. Sac. Congr. S^ti Officii, pp. 47, 48, 178, 192, 256 sqq. (Bibl. del R. Archivio di Stato in Roma, Fondo camerale, Congr. del. S. Offizio, Vol. 3).

[1448] Proceso contra Fray Estevan Ramoneda (MSS. of Am. Philosophical Society).