A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 3

by Henry Charles Lea

[567] Bibl. nacional, MSS., D, 153, fol. 95. This was the rule also in the Roman Inquisition. Del Bene tells us that strictly according to law the convicted heretic is to be burnt alive, but that “among Christians this is not followed, unless he is pertinacious, in which case there is no reason why he should not be burnt alive.”—De Officio S. Inquisitionis, II, 113 (Romæ, 1666).

[568] D. N. Herqueta (Boletin, XLV, 424-33).

[569] Archivo hist. nacional, Inq. de Valencia, Leg. 10 n. 2, fol 136.

[570] Royal Library of Berlin, Qt. 9548.

[571] Bibl. nacional, MSS. S, 294, fol. 375.

[572] Simancæ Enchirid. Tit. XXXI, n. 3.

[573] Instrucciones de 1561, § 43 (Arguello, fol. 33).

[574] Archivo de Simancas, Inq., Lib. 979, fol. 40; Lib. 876, fol. 105^b.

[575] Bibl. nacional, MSS., V, 377, Cap. 10.

[576] Bibl. nacional, MSS., R, 128.