A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 3

by Henry Charles Lea

[135] MSS. of Library of Univ. of Halle, Yc, 20, T. VIII.

[136] Archivo de Simancas, Inquisicion, Lib. 939, fol. 98, 99.

[137] Ibid. fol. 98.

[138] Archivo de Simancas, Inquisicion, Visitas de Barcelona, Leg. 15, fol. 2.—Instrucciones de 1561, § 35 (Arguello, fol. 31-2).

[139] Decret. Sac. Congr. S^ti Officii, p. 496 (Bibl. del R. Archivio di Stato in Roma, Fondo camerale, Congr. del S. Officio, Vol. 3).

[140] Partidas, P. VI, Tit. xvi, leyes 12, 13, 14.—Hugo de Celso, Reportorio de las Leyes, s. v. Curador (Alcalá, 1540).

[141] Pablo García, Orden de Processar, fol. 19.

[142] Archivo de Simancas, Inquisicion, Leg. 552, fol. 23.

For the custom of appointing as curador the advocate or a subordinate official see Praxis procedendi cap. 9, n. 4 (Arch. hist. nacional, Inq. de Valencia).—Arch. de Alcalá, Hacienda, Leg. 544² (Lib. 6).—Arch. hist. nacional, Inq. de Toledo, Leg. 110, n. 31; Leg. 112, n. 64.—The object of the appointment of the curador is frankly admitted by Pablo García (Orden de Processar, fol. 14).

Yet it is of this travesty of justice that a recent apologist tells us that, if the accused was less than 25 years of age, the tribunal selected for him, from among the most eminent advocates of the city, one to assist him throughout the trial.—L’Abbé L.-A. Gaffre, Inquisition et Inquisitions p. 105 (Paris, 1905).