[211] Archivo de Simancas, Inquisicion, Leg. 552, fol. 38. These cases are
| Arrest | 1st Audience | 2nd Audience | 3rd Audience | |
| Acacio Bautillo | Jan. 24, 1647 | Jan. 14, 1648 | Jan. 25, 1648 | May 20, 1648 |
| Ant. Rodrígues del Cano | Jan. 18, 1647 | Jan. 9, 1648 | Jan. 25, 1648 | June 4, 1648 |
| Gaspar Rodrígues del Cano | Jan. 25, 1647 | Jan. 12, 1648 | Feb. 10, 1648 | May 16, 1648 |
| Juan de Isla | Jan. 24, 1647 | Jan. 15, 1648 | Jan. 25,1648 | July 8, 1648 |
| Francisco de Herrera | Jan. 26, 1647 | Jan. 27, 1648 | Feb. 1, 1648 | July 7, 1648 |
| Gaspar de Herrera | Jan. 25, 1647 | Jan. 27, 1648 | Feb. 1, 1648 | May 16, 1648 |
| Miguel Vásques | Jan. 28, 1647 | Jan. 22, 1648 | Jan. 27, 1648 | Nov. 16, 1648 |
| Antonio de Espinosa | Jan. 18, 1647 | Jan. 9, 1648 | Jan. 24, 1648 | Feb. 17, 1648 |
| 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. | |
| June | 9. | Audience at his request. | |
| Aug. | 17. | Audience at his request. | |
| 1651, | Jan. | 9. | Audience at his request. |
| 1652, | April | 19. | Audience at his request. |
| May | 11. | Inquisitors visit the cells. | |
| " | 27. | Audience at his request. | |
| 1654, | July | 23. | Audience at his request. |
| 1655, | Aug. | 14. | Summoned to audience to ask if he has more to say. |
| 1656, | Apri | 26. | Asks an audience in his cell as he is sick. |
| " | 27. | Audience granted by mistake. | |
| " | 30. | His death. | |
| 1657, | May | 11. | The fiscal presents the accusation. |
| 1658, | June | 1. | 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.