A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 3

by Henry Charles Lea

[684] Herculano, I, 228-86.—Corpo Diplomatico, II, 335, 338, 409, 410.—Anno histórico Portuguez, I, 253 (Lisboa, 1744).

[685] Corpo Diplomatico, III, 1, 11, 29, 47, 64, 75.

[686] Corpo Diplomatico, II, 430, 452; III, 76, 82, 124.

[687] Ibidem, III, 117, 121, 125, 166, 169, 171, 177, 181, 190, 206, 210, 218, 220, 228, 249-50, 252, 254, 275, 290-4. The bull of Paul III, embodying the previous one of Clement VII, is in the Bullarium, I, 712.

[688] Herculano, II, 146-62.—Corpo Diplomatico, III, 283, 286, 288, 290, 302, 332; XI, 358.

[689] Corpo Diplomatico, III, 348, 353, 354, 358, 402.

[690] Herculano, II, 200-5.—Corpo Diplomatico, IV, 8, 11, 95.

[691] Corpo Diplomatico, IV, 128-33, 134, 148, 158, 172-8, 186, 188, 195, 200, 205, 206, 271-6; V, 165; VIII, 294, 295. The Portuguese cruzado was nearly the equivalent of the Spanish ducat.

[692] Historia dos principaes Actos e Procedimentos da Inquisicão de Portugal, p. 256 (Lisboa, 1845).

In this year 1540 occurred the curious episode of the False Nuncio, Juan Pérez de Saavedra, a skilful forger and impostor, who presented himself with forged papal briefs, lived in great state in Lisbon for three months, and traversed the land for three more, collecting large sums, after the manner of nuncios. The Spanish Inquisition got upon his track; he was decoyed to the border, seized on Portuguese soil, January 23, 1541, and conveyed to Madrid. For this daring imposition he paid with nineteen years of galleys. He assumed the credit of introducing the Inquisition in Portugal, and this secondary imposture had currency nearly to our own times.—Llorente, Hist. crít. Cap. XVI, Art. iii, n. 1-21.—Páramo, pp. 227-32.—Illescas, Hist. Pontifical, Lib. VI, cap. iv,—Ant. de Sousa, Aphorismi Inquisit.; De Origine Inquisit. § 6.—Feyjoo, Theatro crítico, T. VI, Disc. iii.—Hernández, Verdadera Origen de la Inquisicion de Portugal (Madrid, 1789).