A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 3

by Henry Charles Lea

[56] Ibidem, Leg. 1480, fol. 13. In the accounts these are mostly described discreetly as “diligencias secretas.”

[57] Ibidem, Lib. 939, fol. 110.—Archivo hist. nacional, Inquisicion de Valencia, Leg. 299, fol. 80.

[58] Archivo de Simancas, Inquisicion, Lib. 934.

[59] Thus in the trial of Isabel de Montoya, after she is stripped “luego se le mandaron poner los paños de la vergüenza” (MS. penes me).

[60] Instrucciones de 1561, § 49 (Arguello, fol. 34).—Archivo hist. nacional, Inquisicion de Valencia, Leg. 299, fol. 80.

[61] Pablo García, Orden de Processor, fol. 29.

[62] Archivo hist. nacional, Inquisicion de Valencia, Leg. 299, fol. 80.

[63] Archivo hist. nacional, Inquisicion de Toledo, Leg. 99, n. 25.—In the record there is on the margin a rude outline of the escalera, thus IIIIIII

[64] Proceso contra Manuel Diaz; Proceso contra Marí Rodríguez (MSS. penes me).

[65] I owe a copy of the Córdova letter and Galicia correspondence to the kindness of the late General Don Vicente Riva Palacio of Mexico. Their existence there would indicate that they were sent to all the tribunals. The 1662 instructions of the Suprema are in the Simancas archives, Inquisicion, Lib. 934; Lib. 977, fol. 267.