A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 3

by Henry Charles Lea

[537] Innocent, PP. VIII, Bull. Dilectus filius, 30 Sept. 1486 (Pegnæ Append. ad Eymerici Direct. p. 84).

[538] Mich. Alberti Repertorium, s. vv. Communicare § Sed an quando; Executio § Qualiter.

[539] Torreblanca, Epitome Delictorum, sive de Magia, Lib. III, cap. xxix, n. 15-17. “Et eo jure utimur quia potestates sæculares in tali casu sunt meri executores.” See also Vol. I, p. 603, in the proclamation of the civil power, on the arrival of an inquisitor, the clauses requiring secular officials to inflict “las debidas penas cada y quando por el dicho venerable inquisidor sera declarado.”

[540] Fontana, Documenta Vaticana, pp. 137, 145 (Rome, 1892). The Roman Inquisition made no pretence that its judgements were not final; it assumed that it sentenced to mutilation and death, and in this it claimed that those concerned were immune from the canonical irregularity.—Collectio Decretor S. Congr. S^ti Officii, p 219 (MS. penes me).

[541] Pegnæ Comment. 48 in Eymerici Director. P. II. In view of the unvarying practice of the Church for nearly six hundred years, it requires hardihood for a writer, in 1902, to argue that the civil magistrate and not the Inquisition was responsible for the burning of heretics.—Razon y Fe, T. IV, p. 358 (Madrid, 1902).

[542] Pablo García, Orden de Processar, fol. 74.

[543] MSS. of Royal Library of Copenhagen, 213 fol., p. 126.—“En ellos las primeras causas que deben leerse son las de relaxados, para que incontinenti puedan entregarse al juez real sin permitirle dilacion con pretexto alguno en la execuzion de la sentencia; pues siempre queda al tribunal jurisdiccion segura para obligarle por censuras y otras penas á su puntual cumplimiento.”

[544] Arn. Albertini de Agnoscendis Assertionibus Q. XXV, n. 44-5.

[545] Archivo de Alcalá, Hacienda, Leg. 473.—Olmo, Relacion del Auto, p. 287.

[546] Archivo de Simancas, Inq., Lib. 926, fol. 257.