[211] Archivo de Simancas, Inquisicion, Leg. 552, fol. 38. These cases are

Arrest1st Audience2nd Audience3rd Audience
Acacio BautilloJan. 24, 1647Jan. 14, 1648Jan. 25, 1648May 20, 1648
Ant. Rodrígues del CanoJan. 18, 1647Jan. 9, 1648Jan. 25, 1648June 4, 1648
Gaspar Rodrígues del CanoJan. 25, 1647Jan. 12, 1648Feb. 10, 1648May 16, 1648
Juan de IslaJan. 24, 1647Jan. 15, 1648Jan. 25,1648July 8, 1648
Francisco de HerreraJan. 26, 1647Jan. 27, 1648Feb. 1, 1648July 7, 1648
Gaspar de HerreraJan. 25, 1647Jan. 27, 1648Feb. 1, 1648May 16, 1648
Miguel VásquesJan. 28, 1647Jan. 22, 1648Jan. 27, 1648Nov. 16, 1648
Antonio de EspinosaJan. 18, 1647Jan. 9, 1648Jan. 24, 1648Feb. 17, 1648

[212]

1649,Sept.9.Arrest of Joseph Brunon de Vertiz.
Oct.5 to Nov. 12.Numerous audiences.
Nov.22.Audience at his request.
"23 to Dec. 4.Five audiences on the inventory of his papers and effects.
1650,Jan.25.Audience to ratify his confessions.
Feb.8.Audience at his request.
"19.Audience at his request.
Mar.23.Audience at his request.
June9.Audience at his request.
Aug.17.Audience at his request.
1651,Jan.9.Audience at his request.
1652,April19.Audience at his request.
May11.Inquisitors visit the cells.
"27.Audience at his request.
1654,July23.Audience at his request.
1655,Aug.14.Summoned to audience to ask if he has more to say.
1656,Apri26.Asks an audience in his cell as he is sick.
"27.Audience granted by mistake.
"30.His death.
1657,May11.The fiscal presents the accusation.
1658,June1.Citation to kindred issued.
Nov.3.Citation published in Vera Cruz.
Dec.10.His brother’s procurator appears.
1659,Mar.3.The fiscal asks that the procurator be sworn.
Oct.22.Procurator and advocate sworn—defence abandoned.
Nov.Auto de fe in which he is burnt in effigy.
(MSS. of David Fergusson Esq.)

[213] Archivo hist. nacional, Inquisicion de Toledo, Leg. 114, n. 13.

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

[215] Bibl. nacional, MSS., Mm, 130.—Archivo de Simancas, Inquisicion, Lib. 890.

[216] Innocent. PP. III Regest IX, 213.—Cap. 12, Tit. xxviii, Extra, Lib. III.—Cap. 2, Tit. 1, in Sexto Lib. V.

[217] Institt. IV, 18.—Digest. XLVIII, iv, 11.—Cod. IX, 8.—Cod. Theodos. I, v, 4.

[218] See an interesting paper by George Neilson Esq. (Legal Lore, London, 1897, p. 224) on the trial of the dead for high treason in England and Scotland.