A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 3

by Henry Charles Lea

[675] Bulario de la Orden de Santiago, Lib. III, fol. 109, 111.—Archivo de Simancas, Inq., Lib. 926, fol. 129.—Archivo de Alcalá, Hacienda, Leg. 1049.

[676] Vicente da Costa Mattos, Breve Discurso contra a Perfidia do Judaismo, fol. 100 (Lisboa, 1623).

[677] Bulario de la Orden de Santiago, Lib. IV, fol. 5.—Archivo de Simancas, Inq., Lib. 926, fol. 127.

[678] Bulario de la Orden de Santiago, Lib. IV, fol. 130.

The district of Galicia would seem to be an exception to this, probably arising from the lateness of the organization of the tribunal of Santiago. Jews there had been quite numerous, wealthy and respected, and there had not been time to enforce their conversion or extermination. The severity of the tribunal earned for it the reputation of the most cruel in Spain and, pitiless as was that of Portugal, many Galician Conversos took refuge there. Towards the close of the century Inquisitor Pedro Pérez Gamarra acquired for himself an infamous distinction by his relentless activity, and the archbishop and chapter protested publicly against the proceedings of the tribunal. Its rapacity was rewarded with abundant confiscations. We hear of Méndez of Valdeorras, whose estate was reckoned at more than 40,000 ducats, of that of Antonia de Saravia at 233,707 reales and of Marcial Pereira at 363,444.—Benito F. Alonso, Los Judíos en Orense, pp. 8, 26, 28-30, 32 (Orense, 1904).

[679] Archivo de Simancas, Inq. de Valencia, Leg. 205, fol. 3.

[680] Ample authentic material exists for this in the twelve volumes of the Corpo Diplomatico Portuguez (Lisboa, 1862-1902)—material of which Herculano had skilfully utilized a portion in his classical Da Origem e Estabelecimento da Inquisicão em Portugal (Lisboa, 1854). Some gaps in this have been filled by A. Ronchini, in his Giovanni III di Portogallo, il Cardinal Silva e l’Inquisizione (Modena, 1879).

[681] Osorii de Rebus Emmanuelis Lib. I.—Monteiro, Historia da S. Inquisição de Portugal, Liv. II, c. 43.—Amador de los Rios, III, 358, 360, 614-15.—Herculano, I, 113-14, 116-18, 124-30.

[682] Herculano, I, 133, 153-4, 158-9, 164-8.

[683] Herculano, I, 179, 189-90.